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03/10/05
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Beauty Shop (2005)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:43
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Despite a strong performance by Queen Latifah, Beauty Shop is in need of some style pointers.
Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $36,310,118
Synopsis: Queen Latifah reprises her role as Gina, who audiences first met in the 2004 sequel to BARBERSHOP. This time she's the owner of her own beauty shop. A widow and single mom, Gina has moved from... [More]
Starring: Queen Latifah, Mena Suvari, Djimon Hounsou, Alicia Silverstone
Director: Bille Woodruff
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Reviews for Beauty Shop
Who'd have thought that two sequels in, the hair-cutting set-up would still be fun?
04/03/05
Has plenty of laughs.
03/30/05
The cookie-cutter plot is little more than a frame for the chemistry created by personalities tossed together in the cozy shop.
03/29/05
The movie finally manages to find its groove in the when director Bille Woodruff steps aside and allows his talented cast to mine the material for all it's worth.
03/30/05
The film’s genial, blow-dry attitude keeps things from going astray.
04/03/05
Ice Cube and his investors continue their box-office gentrification of the inner city. As obvious and visually bland as a sitcom, but likable...
03/25/05
All jokes and plot points are telegraphed. You couldn't miss the clues even if your head was in the sink.
03/30/05
Top CriticThe laughs come fast and easy in Beauty Shop, but the minimal-effort plot keeps getting underfoot.
03/28/05
The result is not so much a follow-up as a newly conceived comedy, and a good one at that.
03/30/05
Top CriticDespite Queen Latifah and its boisterous cast's best efforts to style the perfect social comedy, Beauty Shop doesn't quite cut it.
03/31/05
A comedy that really works thanks to the appealing performance by Queen Latifah as an entrepreneur determined to fulfill her dream.
03/31/05
[A] formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
03/30/05
Top CriticYou may not "get krunked" with Beauty Shop, but you know what you’re getting into. It's sitcom-ready material that delivers on its promise.
03/28/05
I may not be fully qualified to evaluate this movie ‘cause I’m a guy. I don’t know what women talk about when they’re alone. Maybe it’s what you get on screen. Maybe not.
04/01/05
Fun, sassy, and the only mainstream Hollywood comedy you'll ever see that features Maya Angelou quoted throughout.
03/30/05
More than just racial slapstick and cheap Maya Angelou jokes.
03/28/05
Takes the most outwardly memorable characteristics of Barbershop ... and replays them again, with less genuine verve.
03/29/05
This spinoff lacks the repartee and thought-provoking social commentary of the original and its sequel. Instead, we get dumbed-down characters and juvenile booty jokes.
03/30/05
Everyone appears to have a good time but the script...covers nothing new and is little more than a series of vignettes
03/29/05
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