Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Name: Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Genre: Comedy
Released: February 6, 2004
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah

2004

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: February 6, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah

Summary: The crew is back in Barbershop 2. They're all still there in Calvin's shop, this time with Queen Latifah joining the fun as Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door. The world changes, but some things never go out of style -- you can still say anything you want at the barbershop. [MGM]

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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Michael Sragow

Barbershop 2 makes you want to know what happens next. In its own way, it's the Ivory Soap of sequels: 99 and 44/100% pure. Read full review

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) and editor Paul Seydor serve it up beautifully. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

He may be a barber, but by saving the community one strand at a time, Calvin is the heir apparent to populist banker George Bailey of "It's a Wonderful Life." Read full review

Liam Lacey

Think of it as "Cheers" without the beer, or "Friends'" Central Perk with razors and sharper dialogue. Read full review

Empire Nick De Semlyen

This time the banter is tighter and funnier, and Calvin’s musings on the importance of community seem more heartfelt. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Queen Latifah, as the proprietor of the lady's salon next door to Calvin's, brightens things up in the brief appearances that serve as symbiotic promotion for the producers' coming spin-off movie, "Beauty Shop." Read full review

Laura Sinagra

Cube is still adorable, but the potentially poppin' battle between the shop and big-box competitor Nappy Cuts gets obscured by sloppy chronology and flat, cartoonish politicos. Read full review

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amheretojudge

May 20, 2019

Cube and Cedric are going hand in hand winning over each hurdle, they keep the legacy alive, while business comes in handy.

Barbershop 2: Back In Business Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the director, has equally long film to run through. Jumping in the life of these familiar characters who haveCube and Cedric are going hand in hand winning over each hurdle, they keep the legacy alive, while business comes in handy.

Barbershop 2: Back In Business

Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the director, has equally long film to run through. Jumping in the life of these familiar characters who have managed to exceed well enough in terms of capabilities both personally and professionally and yet as the film ages on screen, they have managed to stay the same. This is how excellent their command over the character is, they flaunt at their best and even at their worst. Not accepting to back down, should have been fabricated as their example of prowess but this is a rough town, and things go down pretty bad, pretty soon.

And yet they never learn, something that never covers the arc completely on their character which by now, I guess is a scheme to keep coming back as an excuse and well, make money; I mean, it is a Ice Cube production. Queen Latifah, the mixture of rivalry and friendly equation with our folks never could own the trash talk she is offered, the overdoing of that every bit of linguistic slices down the earned respect. But fortunately, these additional appearances are for brief moments, what stays with you is who has stayed with us up till now.

It is much more engaging to see an empty room crowded by the range that these revisiting characters needs for nothing but their sassiness. Ice Cube, this time, a bit mature, seeks for guidance to his father-alike figure Cedric who with his own long lost love story, clears all the fuss expressively. This is what I have loved about the series, if it is light footed, it stays by it all the way, even a crisis a big as such could be eradicated through easy mellow methods where the build up matters and not the impact, and that is how they are getting Back In Business.… Expand

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