Beauty Shop

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

The script is full of brassy lines.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The beauty of the "Shop" movies is that they provide a stage for lively characters.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

lLght and likable - a low-budget "Steel Magnolias" without pretense.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

The diversity of the Beauty Shop ensemble is a large part of what makes it so much fun to watch;

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

At its warmhearted center, Beauty Shop is a workshop in how to walk around like Oprah with a feeling of confidence and entitlement.

Premiere Kevin Allison

For the most part, what it aims to do-amuse and uplift-it does wonderfully.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Beauty Shop extends the popular "Barbershop" franchise to Atlanta and provides a sassy feminine counterpart to its cozy men's-club vibe.

Variety Joe Leydon

A sunny and sassy comedy that somehow manages to breathe fresh life into familiar stereotypes and stock situations.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

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.

USA Today Claudia Puig

The plot progression can be guessed early on, but the film is more about humor and heart than a clever story.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A cut above what you'd expect from the spinoff of a sequel.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Has nothing new to say, but it has a lot of fun covering the same old territory.

Empire Anna Smith

This has the power to unite a female audience ready and willing to overlook its supposed weaknesses.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's a boisterous and amiable movie but not, in the end, a very funny one.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Spends too much time being convivial and not enough time looking for the kind of real conflict that begets a good comedy.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

There's an amiability that permeates the movie and carries it through most of the rough patches and split ends.

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The story and humor are so tame the movie barely merits No More Tears.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

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.

Village Voice Akiva Gottlieb

Breezy, sporadically funny.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Beauty Shop's shtick gets old and tired pretty quickly, but a breezy tone and air of easygoing likeability carry it a long way.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Queen Latifah's warmly formidable presence drives this amiable but poky comedy.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

The results are so listless, dated and characterless.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

The residents of Beauty Shop never quite gel. Instead of camaraderie, the feeling is one of bare tolerance.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

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?