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04/02/05
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
Top CriticThe story is for the most part useless and thin--the pilot of a failed sitcom.
04/02/05
Did you like the Barbershop movies? You'll like this too.
04/01/05
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
It has some very funny moments but it tries to do too many things - it's a bit like watching back-to-back episodes of a sitcom.
04/01/05
... A carbon copy of Barbershop, only with a female cast.
04/01/05
Raucous & funny, albeit stereotypical, it gives bawdy texture to the humor and a feel-good lift to the heart.
04/01/05
It’s just a blast of hot air, and every bit as fleeting.
03/31/05
Queen Latifah’s back on track. She has a long way to go to equal her role in “Chicago,” in which she both starred and sang. But “Beauty Shop” is a better-than-average outing.
03/31/05
Funny, smart and better than either Barbershop film
03/31/05
The few serious notes in the movie are also its weakest. The film is on much safer ground when it's playing culture-crossing for laughs...
03/31/05
A comedy that really works thanks to the appealing performance by Queen Latifah as an entrepreneur determined to fulfill her dream.
03/31/05
Its lackluster efforts to be raunchily topical about issues of race, class and sexuality leave its talented cast stranded without a paddle.
03/31/05
...the makeover as therapy.
03/31/05
A cramped sitcomlike vehicle, [but Queen Latifah's] royal presence makes this little Ford Fiesta ride like an Escalade.
03/31/05
Without a real story, even a personality as indomitable as Queen Latifah can carry a movie only so far.
03/31/05
Despite Queen Latifah and its boisterous cast's best efforts to style the perfect social comedy, Beauty Shop doesn't quite cut it.
03/31/05
Although not a chore to sit through, the whole thing seems rather clunkily thought out and offers precious little worth remembering once the end credits have rolled.
03/30/05
Shouldn't Queen Latifah be able to find better projects than an unnecessary spinoff like Beauty Shop?
03/30/05
Feel-good entertainment that is no less enjoyable for being somewhat predictable.
03/30/05
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