Beauty Shop has plenty of funny moments, along with randy, outrageous dialogue, but not much of a plot.
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03/29/05
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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
I can't authoritatively say that Silverstone's slack-jawed, forced-twang performance is the worst in film history - I can only guess and hope that this is so.
03/29/05
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
Lazy direction hurts this old-fashioned sitcom.
03/29/05
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
...too amiable to dislike...boasts quite the ensemble cast
03/29/05
Girls just wanna have fun, and so does the film, which recycles the requisite moralizing into a breezy, sporadically funny package.
03/29/05
This film is less a movie than a brand extension. Speaking of which, it is as synthetic as cut-rate hair extensions and as obvious as its intrusive product placements.
03/29/05
A ramshackle movie, jerry-built from leftover materials and...so rushed to completion that it threatens to collapse from the effort to cobble everything together.
03/29/05
It’s hard to deny Latifah her energy, but the Beauty Shop material is so tired it should come outfitted with a comforter and pillows.
03/28/05
More than just racial slapstick and cheap Maya Angelou jokes.
03/28/05
The laughs come fast and easy in Beauty Shop, but the minimal-effort plot keeps getting underfoot.
03/28/05
a series of individual bite-sized conflicts that would fit snuggly in a half-hour sitcom
03/28/05
You 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
'Beauty Shop' has it all -- great performances, an empowering story and tons of laughs.
03/28/05
No matter how many jokes about big booties Beauty Shop tosses at us, it's nothing more than Barber Shop Lite.
03/27/05
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
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03/23/05
About as fresh as a Jeri Curl.
03/23/05
Rather clunky and unfunny, [but] its cast has enough personality to make it surprisingly entertaining.
03/17/05
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