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Barbershop 2 - Back In Business Details

2004 Certificate 15
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In this follow-up to the 2002 original, BARBERSHOP 2 reunites the same cast of characters for more fun and laughs. Ice Cube is the charming Calvin Palmer, one of South Side Chicago's most upstanding business owners. But when the nefarious Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix) shows up across the street with the flashy, hip Nappy Cutz, .. Read more

Starring Ice Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas, Queen Latifah
Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Genres Comedy

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Barbershop 2 - Back In Business

In this follow-up to the 2002 original, BARBERSHOP 2 reunites the same cast of characters for more fun and laughs. Ice Cube is the charming Calvin Palmer, one of South Side Chicago's most upstanding business owners. But when the nefarious Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix) shows up across the street with the flashy, hip Nappy Cutz, Calvin's shop is in jeopardy once again. While contending with his constantly bickering staff of barbers (Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garrity, Michael Ealy, and Leonard Earl Howze), Calvin must also decide whether or not to take a payoff from the slimy Alderman Brown (Robert Wisdom).
Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan and screenwriter Don D. Scott open their sequel with a heartwarming ode to the major figures in African-American culture over the past fifty years. But while the film retains that spirit, it doesn't forget the tricks that made the first BARBERSHOP such a smash hit. Cedric the Entertainer's hilarious Eddie gets much more screen time, including a flashback that explains why he will always be welcome in Calvin's shop. There's also Gina (Queen Latifah), Calvin's fiery ex, who runs the beauty shop next door, and who is well on her way to becoming a screen franchise of her very own.

Starring Ice Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas, Queen Latifah
Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 42 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 30 Aug 2004
Production year: 2004
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (2) of Barbershop 2 - Back In Business

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Chicago's stronghold of black rant and rave opens its doors once again in this fun comedy from How Stella Got Her Groove Back director Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Calvin (Ice Cube) discovers that his shop's future on the South Side is threatened when super-hairdressing salon Nappy Cutz is set to open across the street. Just like a TV soap-opera pub, Calvin's barbershop acts as a neighbourhood meeting place where stories are shared and social therapy can be administered. So, with tradition and community values at stake, Calvin and his crew decide to take a stand. This sequel is more character-driven than the original, with the ever-opinionated Cedric the Entertainer's backstory benefiting from the flashback treatment, while Queen Latifah joins the ranks of eccentrics and oddballs as the proprietress of the beauty shop next door. Director Sullivan has perhaps tried too hard to make it likeable, but in these cynical days that's not at all unwelcome.

    • Radio Times
  • Amiable, efficient sequel, the cinematic equivalent of a short back and sides.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 8 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    medicore

    not as good as the first film and very medicore just enough to allow you to stop falling asleep

      • A customer from not where i wanna be
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  • 8 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    medicore

    not as good as the first film and very medicore just enough to allow you to stop falling asleep

      • A customer from not where i wanna be
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    Barbershop 2 storms US chart

    • 09 Feb 2004

    Comedy sequel Barbershop 2 has stormed the US box office chart taking, the top spot over its debut weekend. The film, which reunites Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, took $25.1 million (£13.5 million) to beat Miracle to first place. Kurt Russell's feel-good hockey film took $19.4 million (£10.4 million), according to BBC News Online. Meanwhile, family film Catch That Kid opened at number six with $6 million (£3.2 million). The overall box office takings saw the top 12 movies... Read more

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