This smart, feisty comedy is still ghetto-fabulous enough to make you laugh until your short, back and sides ache.
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04/20/04
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:79
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: The humor is less sharp and more warm-hearted this time around, and the characters are enjoyable to revisit.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Take a seat, sit back, and get ready for another haircut: Calvin opens up shop once again in Barbershop 2: Back in Business, a sequel to the original comedy smash hit. Ice Cube, Cedric the... [More]
Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Sean Patrick Thomas
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Reviews for Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Top CriticThe banter is tighter and funnier, and Calvin's musings on the importance of community seem more heartfelt.
05/14/04
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01/26/06
Top CriticThis one's a winner by more than a hair.
02/06/04
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12/06/05
Top CriticAlthough it lacks the freshness of the original film, Barbershop 2 is still enjoyable and often laugh-out-loud funny.
02/06/04
Top CriticA more serious but equally entertaining comedy than its predecessor, film provides enough food for thought and laughs to satisfy diehard fans.
02/05/04
Now that those Hobbits are wrapped up, Hollywood ought to turn its attention to making a "Barbershop" trilogy.
02/09/04
Constantly engaged and intelligent while generally conscious of retaining the entertaining goods, Barbershop 2 is anything but your business-as-usual sequel.
02/06/04
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03/16/04
What Barbershop 2: Back In Business lacks in stealth and surprise, it makes up for in style and confidence.
02/06/04
Warmhearted and surprisingly ambitious.
02/06/04
Affectionate and deeply funny.
02/05/04
Takes the characters deeper than the first film, revealing new dimensions to all of them, and it balances its bright humor with a melancholy sense that the changes that come to a neighborhood are not always good ones.
02/05/04
improves on its predecessor
02/06/04
Just as sharply funny and as heartwarming, yet unsentimental, as the first.
02/06/04
Doesn't overreach the original's modest ambitions, doesn't mess with the endearing, well-rounded characters and never forgets that the jokes are all in service of a sincere message about what it means to be a community.
02/05/04
Picks up where the first film ended by celebrating community, exploring responsibility to one's neighborhood and, most important, providing big, big laughs.
02/06/04
It is an OK sequel, but what it really demonstrates is that this would play much better as a TV series.
02/08/04
As long as it is simply being a barbershop, the gab has a razor-cut charm.
02/06/04
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