Even a sharp pace can't disguise the lack of dramatic momentum.
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03/30/05
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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
Top CriticLooks, feels and unfolds with measured sitcom familiarity, right down to the storming of characters through the shop's doors and the relentless crossfire of sassy putdowns.
03/30/05
Top CriticAt this point, any humor left in the Barbershop series is limited to a few stray clippings on the floor.
03/30/05
Top CriticThanks to Queen Latifah, it manages to keep its comic shape, even with the wind of familiarity blowing around.
03/30/05
Top CriticA bit too relaxed for its own good.
03/30/05
Top CriticThe result is not so much a follow-up as a newly conceived comedy, and a good one at that.
03/30/05
A fluff job.
03/30/05
Funny, warm and relaxingly good-natured, the kind of movie that invites us to check personal woes at the door.
03/30/05
Both fresh and familiar, entertaining and uplifting enough in its own right even if it doesn't quite measure up to its predecessors.
03/30/05
[A] formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
03/30/05
The movie has a solid moral core that uses stereotypes to impart important lessons about respect, tolerance and hair conditioner. And Queen Latifah is irresistible.
03/30/05
Top CriticIt's refreshing how most of the movie is essentially about the characters, their stories, their lives.
03/30/05
Top CriticThe film resides in the realm of mediocrity, dreadful in spots, enjoyable on occasion, and disposable throughout.
03/30/05
Top CriticFor all the vivid, amusing characters that surround Gina, Beauty Shop rightly belongs to Latifah, who comes into her own as a star and an actress in this film.
03/30/05
Top CriticThere is much to enjoy in the struggles and triumphs of Latifah's Gina Morris.
03/30/05
Top Critic[A] wan, third-generation photocopy, only with chicks, and despite the fact that it’s an enormous mess, the terrific cast is undeniably ingratiating....
03/30/05
It's a boisterous and amiable movie but not, in the end, a very funny one.
03/30/05
Top CriticFun, sassy, and the only mainstream Hollywood comedy you'll ever see that features Maya Angelou quoted throughout.
03/30/05
Barbershop has been given a cinematic sex-change operation.
03/30/05
Takes the most outwardly memorable characteristics of Barbershop ... and replays them again, with less genuine verve.
03/29/05
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