This is one film that should have been abandoned at the "I’m thinking about writing a new screenplay" phase because it ultimately does no good whatsoever.
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04/18/05
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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
Has the stink of a bad perm all over it.
04/15/05
A very funny story that will make you laugh. Enjoy this new comedy from MGM.
04/14/05
Latifah does her best to keep it real, and that's the sad part. What she and her girlfriends do to the English language is pretty darn ugly.
04/13/05
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04/09/05
a nice enough story, just not funny or memorable enough to make it into a winner.
04/07/05
Passable entertainment of the lightweight kind, providing several nice comic characters and scenes along the way.
04/06/05
This is the very picture of bland, uncreative filmmaking, and the fact that it was made by African-Americans is just a further example of the tragedy of black-on-black crime.
04/04/05
I thought this was too much like the pilot for a sitcom.
04/04/05
Top CriticThis hormonally hyper-charged emporium for dirty talk lacks sparkle and subtlety.
04/04/05
As a crackling cultural feminine empowerment piece, Beauty Shop is about as well-rounded as an unshaped Afro hairdo
04/04/05
Latifah is fun but the plot is a 'Barbershop' retread.
04/04/05
The camera observes big-bootied women, a fine guy who might be gay and Alicia Silverstone’s terminally white dancing, but it doesn’t exactly count as observational humor.
04/04/05
Beauty Shop won't change any lives. Like highlights on top of a familiar 'do, though, it'll brighten things for a while.
04/04/05
Beauty Shop isn’t as much of a surprise because Queen Latifah is not as unexpected as Ice Cube... in Barber Shop. However, it is a feel-good and sassy comedy...
04/04/05
Who'd have thought that two sequels in, the hair-cutting set-up would still be fun?
04/03/05
The film’s genial, blow-dry attitude keeps things from going astray.
04/03/05
It isn’t as much awful as it is fundamentally unnecessary.
04/03/05
The film has a lot of good things around the edges, but its core lacks the spark that would make us want to return again and again to Gina’s salon.
04/03/05
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04/02/05
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