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Movie Reviews of Beauty Shop
Movie Review: Beauty Shop DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
They were very quick sending the package....it was not damage cover nor DVD. Will use them again.Movie Review: Beauty shop
Summary: 5 Stars
I fully enjoyed this movie. After all, whatever Queen Latifah puts her hand to is wonderful.Movie Review: Funny Movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Funny movie for any body,I picked out Rudie all grown up in this Movie.Movie Review: Okay
Summary: 4 Stars
Judging from the previews, it looked about as over the top as that stupid movie Queen Latifah did as the ex-con. But I went to see it anyway and support a movie that had the potential to be good with actresses like Golden, Queen Latifah, and Keisha Knight Pulliam.
Bad News (first): There were the stereotypes I dreaded seeing, like the sistas with way too much attitude (especially about having a white woman as a hairstylist), the two women with terrible hairstyles (AND HAIR COLOR--ex. blue & gold hair UGH!), the white woman who couldn't vibe with black beauticians until she was advised to act black, and the rest of the white women being extremely stuck-up. The southern accents from Alicia Silverstone and the young dude from the comedy show were terrible. The black man going for the white girl was rather typical as well. But my major bone was with how Queen Latifah made a song about disrespecting people by calling them out their name, but threw the word b---- around like it was normal, and had the audacity to tell the other beauticians that the n-word and b---- would not be allowed. Practice what you preach (in real life and on the set).
Good news: The love interest was not only chocolate, he was African. That's way abnormal for the typical movie, and I appreciated that. Queen Latifah's plot about leaving one bourgeoisie beauty shop to own her own was a great way of letting people know that there are struggles and there are triumphs when starting a business. Queen's daughter who could play the piano, listen to classical music, and still have a soul sista feel to her was interesting. The young guy from the comedy show was hilarious, as I knew he would be, and ma-an, did he have a fan club screaming in the theater whenever he came out. I wanted to start another club for the cutie as the ex-con/new beautician employee that had a questionable lifestyle. I like the braids as much as his usual low cut. And what's not fun about seeing Keisha be grown?
There was a guy in the audience when I went to see Barbershop who saw the previews for this movie and responded with "I ain't gonna see that ----" and a guy outside the theater today talking about "I'm sure it's great cinematography" loaded with sarcasm. I want to tell you men out there something! You have got to stop judging movies by sex and more by plot.
Unfortunately, these guys were right. The first time I saw this movie, I thought it was cool. But someone offered me a bootleg copy and I didn't even want it. I never take bootleg movies becuase I like to support the actors/actresses. But this movie was just boring to me after the first time. I fast forwarded to the scenes with dude from Toni Braxton's video and then turned it off. If I could change my rating now, I'd give it a two.
Movie Review: One of the strongest movies dealing with integration I think I've seen
Summary: 4 Stars
Beauty Shop
You know, the more I think about it, the more I like Queen Latifah. For the overall uselessness of the movie Bringin' Down da House, that one scene where she transforms into a rich, upper class type public speaker just to show Steve Martin's character that she CAN do it, she just chooses NOT to, definitely shows a side of "black culture" that is much more relatable to-->the fact that (a lot/most/some?) choose that because that's how they WANT to identify themselves, and it's not meant to be confrontational at heart. It's like choosing to be a goth, or a punk, or all of those subcultures almost, conformingly anticonformist, grouping yourself in a similar minded alternative.
So now we have this movie, where Queen Latifa plays Gina, a stylist whiz who feels underappreciated at her job so opens her own shop, and there she shocks and appalls the neighborhood by bringing in white clientele and white employees and letting them all enjoy the scenery. It's actually one of the strongest movies dealing with integration I think I've seen, basically because when everyone gives trouble to the the white girl, and the white girl's getting upset and disturbed by it, Gina just has to say to her, "Hey, think how I felt in a white shop." Indeed.
Plus, when dealing with those pesky issues of representation that seems to hover over every mediated creation of "black characters", this one is pretty broad, from the black women who refuse to work with the white woman and leave, to the young "white-speaking" black girl who keeps on getting hit on by the jive-talking twelve-year-old, to the African culture versed man above them who, also, happens to know a thing or two about playing good piano.
And of course it would be. From the makers of Barbershop, it has that same more critical look at black culture that loves it, and yet knows what it really is and where people on "both" sides take it too seriously. Barbershop was actually quite a wonderful film, mostly because of it's political incorrectness, but also because of the pale-skinned barber who points out that being black is what he wants, not what he has to be born into, and Cedric the Entertainer doing his "Martin Luther King Jr. was a HO!" bit was just too much.
Now if only this film didn't have ... well... Kevin Bacon. I thought that having Kevin Bacon in it would make it amazing, but it really, really didn't. He's just too weird for a too lightly humored film. Instead, I'd like to point out that this movie has Andie McDowell in a fantastic role, so with that cast, it's got to have SOMETHING to it.
--PolarisDiB