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75The beauty of the "Shop" movies is that they provide a stage for lively characters.
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75The diversity of the Beauty Shop ensemble is a large part of what makes it so much fun to watch;
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75lLght and likable - a low-budget "Steel Magnolias" without pretense.
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75At its warmhearted center, Beauty Shop is a workshop in how to walk around like Oprah with a feeling of confidence and entitlement.
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75For the most part, what it aims to do-amuse and uplift-it does wonderfully.
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75The script is full of brassy lines.
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70For all the vivid, amusing characters that surround Gina, Beauty Shop rightly belongs to Latifah, who comes into her own as a star and an actress in this film.
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70Beauty Shop extends the popular "Barbershop" franchise to Atlanta and provides a sassy feminine counterpart to its cozy men's-club vibe.
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70A sunny and sassy comedy that somehow manages to breathe fresh life into familiar stereotypes and stock situations.
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63Has nothing new to say, but it has a lot of fun covering the same old territory.
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63A cut above what you'd expect from the spinoff of a sequel.
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63The plot progression can be guessed early on, but the film is more about humor and heart than a clever story.
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63Formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
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60This has the power to unite a female audience ready and willing to overlook its supposed weaknesses.
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60As in the other two movies, the plot is a thin cardboard box used to carry an assortment of observational doughnuts--in this case, estrogen-fueled shop talk about race, men, and the politics of looking good.
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58It's a boisterous and amiable movie but not, in the end, a very funny one.
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50Plays like a pilot for a TV sitcom. It sets up enough story threads for an entire season yet nothing much actually happens during the 105-minute running time.
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50The story and humor are so tame the movie barely merits No More Tears.
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50There's an amiability that permeates the movie and carries it through most of the rough patches and split ends.
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50Beauty Shop's shtick gets old and tired pretty quickly, but a breezy tone and air of easygoing likeability carry it a long way.
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50Breezy, sporadically funny.
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Mildly amusing and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, with much of its humor playing off foolish white folks and gay stereotypes.
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50Spends too much time being convivial and not enough time looking for the kind of real conflict that begets a good comedy.
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40Queen Latifah's warmly formidable presence drives this amiable but poky comedy.
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40A spin-off of a sequel... It doesn't even try to be different, because it assumes the moviegoer wants only the same-ol' and then offers even less.
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38The results are so listless, dated and characterless.
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38The residents of Beauty Shop never quite gel. Instead of camaraderie, the feeling is one of bare tolerance.
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30The script is painfully underbaked, and director Bille Woodruff (Honey) continues to raise a question: How can someone from a music-video background have absolutely no sense of rhythm, timing or pacing?
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 5 out of 12
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Sam6Predictable, corny, sometimes wooden, but always interesting comedy-drama.
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