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Starring: Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone Director: Bille Woodruff MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Queen Latifah heads an "excellent ensemble" cast in this "warm, funny, empowering" (New York Post) comedy from the producers of Barbershop and the producer of Bringing Down the House! Co-starring Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Alfre Woodard, Mena Suvari and Djimon Hounsou - and featuring Kevin Bacon in a hilarious performance - Beauty Shop "will slap a smile on your face and keep it there" (Premiere)! When Jorge (Bacon), the egotistical boss at a posh salon, pushes his star stylist, Gina(Latifah), a hair too far, Gina leaves and opens a beauty shop of her own. Inheriting an opinionated group of stylists, a colorful clientele and a sexy upstairs neighbor, Gina proves that you can't keep a good woman down - and you can't keep a shopful of outrageous women from speaking their minds!

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Beauty Shop sticks so closely to the Barbershop template, it's as much a female replica of those films as Ms. Pac-Man is a female version of Pac-Man. Queen Latifah builds on her cameo role from Barbershop 2: Back in Business, taking over the central role from Ice Cube and trying to open her own salon in Atlanta. Add in Alicia Silverstone, echoing Barbershop's white hairdresser "trying to be black," and another generous helping of workplace debates on contemporary issues (here instigated by a sassy radio DJ), and you've got a pretty strict adherence to a pretty successful formula. Not the tired retread one might expect, however, Beauty Shop bursts with life, having attracted a spectrum of enthusiastic performers and a script (by a trio of female writers) that provides them enough depth to exceed broad character types. Beauty Shop displays a curious ambivalence about riding the coattails of its predecessors -- it certainly relies on the name recognition, but the only cursory reference to the earlier films is that Gina hails from Chicago, where they were set. Perhaps that's due to carving out its own identity as a crossover film; Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, and Kevin Bacon (vamping wildly as a Eurotrash salon owner) join Silverstone in comprising the white half of a truly multicultural cast. Beauty Shop values its female-ness over its ethnicity, as many of the issues surround how men treat their women and how women can compete in a man's world. Latifah is the den mother overseeing this hub of intersecting lives, always displaying the confidence and character that has turned her into an A-list star. The result is a mostly witty and observant piece of feminism lite, one that doesn't need a man -- or the largely male movie that spawned it -- to walk tall. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
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3.0 out of 5 stars Light-weight and superficial - yet funny enough to get by with it, Aug 11 2006
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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If you examine this movie with a critical eye, you'll find a pretty lightweight, formulaic plot, a lot of superficial characters, and more than one questionable performance - but the critical eye cannot gauge the comedic beauty shop atmosphere or quantify the aura Queen Latifah exudes over the whole movie. There are ample doses of humor spread throughout the entire film, and thus Beauty Shop succeeds fairly well - albeit unevenly - as a comedy. I actually watched this film because Mena Suvari is in it, and I just have to say: Mena, the magic is gone. What in the world happened to bring Mena down to the level (nay, below the level) of Alicia Silverstone?

The story's pretty simple. Gina (Queen Latifah) is a hairstylist for the fabulous Jorge - until he pushes her past her breaking point and she makes a few references to certain posterior body parts and leaves. Let's just stop and talk about Jorge. Just when I was beginning to take Kevin Bacon seriously as an actor, he shows up in what has to be the most excruciatingly embarrassing role I've encountered in years. Anyway, Gina decides to open her own shop. It's rough going early on, but she and a bevy of outspoken women soon turn her dream into a reality. Oh, there are more problems later on, of course, but it doesn't take her (and her hair crack conditioner) very long to start stealing some of Jorge's best customers away from him. This is where Mena Suvari and Andie MacDowell come in - I don't think either one will want to put these roles anywhere near the top of their acting resumes. Mena is particularly disappointing, and it didn't help her or the story when her character suddenly underwent a complete personality change for seemingly no reason whatsoever toward the end. Then there's Alicia Silverstone; I don't know if she can possibly come back from this performance. She's the white girl trying to fit in with her black co-workers, and her performance just gets more and more painful to watch as time passes (and what is with that terrible Southern accent?). The performance of Little JJ as a little playa on constant booty patrol will help get you past the bad parts, though - he's hilarious.

Naturally, there's a little romance thrown in the mix, but you'll spend more time trying to make Darnelle look like the Keshia Knight Pulliam you remember from The Cosby Show than worrying about whether Gina can make a love connection with the electrician living above the boutique. I know I haven't said a lot of good things about the movie, but most of the good things come from the interaction of the outspoken women inside the beauty shop. There are some real characters in that bunch, and they do keep the comedy flowing. Basically, Beauty Shop is an average movie with a slightly better than average level of comedy.
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