| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The script is full of brassy lines.
|
| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The beauty of the "Shop" movies is that they provide a stage for lively characters.
|
| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
lLght and likable - a low-budget "Steel Magnolias" without pretense.
|
| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
The diversity of the Beauty Shop ensemble is a large part of what makes it so much fun to watch;
|
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
At its warmhearted center, Beauty Shop is a workshop in how to walk around like Oprah with a feeling of confidence and entitlement.
|
| 75 |
Premiere
For the most part, what it aims to do-amuse and uplift-it does wonderfully.
|
| 70 |
The New York Times
Beauty Shop extends the popular "Barbershop" franchise to Atlanta and provides a sassy feminine counterpart to its cozy men's-club vibe.
|
| 70 |
Variety
A sunny and sassy comedy that somehow manages to breathe fresh life into familiar stereotypes and stock situations.
|
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
For 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.
|
| 63 |
USA Today
The plot progression can be guessed early on, but the film is more about humor and heart than a clever story.
|
| 63 |
Boston Globe
Formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.
|
| 63 |
New York Post
A cut above what you'd expect from the spinoff of a sequel.
|
| 63 |
Miami Herald
Has nothing new to say, but it has a lot of fun covering the same old territory.
|
| 60 |
Empire
This has the power to unite a female audience ready and willing to overlook its supposed weaknesses.
|
| 60 |
Chicago Reader
As 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.
|
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
It's a boisterous and amiable movie but not, in the end, a very funny one.
|
| 50 |
Washington Post
Spends too much time being convivial and not enough time looking for the kind of real conflict that begets a good comedy.
|
| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
There's an amiability that permeates the movie and carries it through most of the rough patches and split ends.
|
| 50 |
Washington Post
Jennifer Frey
Mildly amusing and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, with much of its humor playing off foolish white folks and gay stereotypes.
|
| 50 |
New York Daily News
The story and humor are so tame the movie barely merits No More Tears.
|
| 50 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Plays 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.
|
| 50 |
Village Voice
Breezy, sporadically funny.
|
| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Beauty Shop's shtick gets old and tired pretty quickly, but a breezy tone and air of easygoing likeability carry it a long way.
|
| 40 |
TV Guide
Queen Latifah's warmly formidable presence drives this amiable but poky comedy.
|
| 40 |
Dallas Observer
A 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.
|
| 38 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The results are so listless, dated and characterless.
|
| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
The residents of Beauty Shop never quite gel. Instead of camaraderie, the feeling is one of bare tolerance.
|
| 30 |
LA Weekly
The 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?
|
