Beauty Shop | | Cast : | Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Djimon Hounsou | | Director : | Bille Woodruff | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 30, 2005 | | DVD Released Date : | August 23, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | It stunk on ice! (but, not quite) | Content
 | (The title of my review (minus the stuff in parenthesis) is something I heard on a nickelodeon show called Rocket Power) Anyway, the only things I liked about this movie were the black women (and the white women trying to fit in) and the jokes about Queen Latifa's butt. (Also it had a person from a show I like called Faerie Tale Theatre, but i didn't know which character it was.) It was boring and I didn't understand alot of it. Only take teenagers to this movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | Monkey Bread... EEEK! | Content
| This movie was hilarious. I saw it in the theatre and I laughed the entire time. People should not always expect a comedy to be all serious and have a perfect plot... this movie is about having fun and that's exactly what i did. It was "FIIIIIEERCE FIIIIEEERCE"!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | Racist, Sexist, and Not That Funny | Content
| I was expecting this movie to be like Barber Shop. Boy, I was wrong! I didn't even enjoy the movie and told a friend of mine to think twice about going to see it. The movie is so sexist that it's not even funny. The men, especially Black men, were portrayed negatively througout the movie. There was not one single decent Black man. Not ONE. They were shown as liars, control freaks, cheaters, ex-cons, down lows, sissies, abusers, as well as disrespectful. Outside of the barber shop there was always this same group of thuggish Black men chilling on the sidewalk day in and day out. Didn't any of them have jobs? Gina's love interest, Joe, wasn't even portrayed in a positive light. Yeah, he was buff and into the arts and stuff, but he was effiminate, too much of a softy. The women, on the other hand, were shown too much as being strong, desirable, industrious, independent achievers. Yeah, sure.
And you can't forget the racism. Lynn (the white stylist) gets no love or respect from the black hair stylists. Why? Simply because she's being herself. To get them to respect her, she has to style her hair in those hideous extraterrestrial weave styles, twist her neck, finger snap, and be sassy. Nonsense like this happens all the time among younger Blacks.. If you want to prove how Black you are, all you gotta do is speak in slang all the time, listen to rap/hip-hop, wear cornrows, wear your pants hanging off your butt if your a guy, prance around half-naked and shake your behind if you're a woman, and blame the White man for everything. I'll pass on that, thank you very much.
Anyway, this movie reeked and it was worse than "Waiting to Exhale." It's full of nonsense, too predictable, and it puts bad ideas into women's heads. I can't support Black movies if they're going to be dumb like "Beauty Shop." The only message this movie gives is that good things always happen and all of your problems will be solved-- if you're in Hollywood. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | I HOLLA | Content
| At the end of this movie i had a smile on my face and a happy feeling all over.Queen L well what can i say beautiful,fun and great personality. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 28, 2005 | | Summary | gotta watch it | Content
| I really would like for others to watch it because it teaches you that even though people discourage you, you should still keep on trying and I want to tell Queen Latifa That I am happy that she was in the movie and that I am her number 1 fan I love you Queen LAtifa |
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