Latifah carries the weight of this film and does an impressive job given a script that's crying out for a total restyle.
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04/19/05
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Beauty Shop
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04/01/06
Top CriticThis 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.
04/18/05
Rather clunky and unfunny, [but] its cast has enough personality to make it surprisingly entertaining.
03/17/05
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02/09/06
Top CriticQueen Latifah proved that she could be watchable in awful movies when she made Taxi, although Beauty Shop never gets close to that particular level of badness.
04/23/05
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04/27/05
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
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
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
At this point, any humor left in the Barbershop series is limited to a few stray clippings on the floor.
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
The film’s genial, blow-dry attitude keeps things from going astray.
04/03/05
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09/26/05
Top CriticHas the stink of a bad perm all over it.
04/15/05
[A] formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
03/30/05
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04/02/05
Top CriticLatifah 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
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
It's refreshing how most of the movie is essentially about the characters, their stories, their lives.
03/30/05
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