Barbershop Reviews

This is a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half. It is funny, perceptive and, for once, a positive depiction of black people in Urban America. You have to listen quite closely to catch some of the dialogue, but it is well worth it. If anything, it put me in mind of a modern version of the old Ealing Comedies - gentle, amusing but intelligent. Good stuff.

It's all good in the hood

Ice Cube playing his ususal charismatic self with a blend of wit, humour, menace and style. Anyone who doesn't like this is a daaaamn fool!

Funny and poignant

This film captures very well the atmosphere that is a barbershop at its best. The characters and the discussions are well done and the ensemble cast work well. It is a happy movie but does give airing to discussions I have heard whilst someone is running a trimmer thru my head. We watched it twice and the deleted scenes and other stuff is good as well as a phat backing track.

It is a comedy where you can laugh and laugh as well as recognise some people you know

Barber Shop

I really did not enjoy this film although I know that a sequel has just been released and it has a cult following. I found the story line to be rather tedious and frankly boring. I did not watch it to the end.

Daring, funny movie.

First, fantastic carpenters, painters and set decorators, as it is a very faithful display of a classy barbershop.

Secondly, thank you for the jokes. Some of them went a bit bland, but just trying to have a laugh at iconic events and people just like Cuba G and else do is so refreshing. The plot is linear and we know the end before putting the DVD in the player, but hey, this will make you forget about the council tax...

i personally loved this movie although i appreciate that it is not for everyone. It incorperate credibility, Self-will, self respect and culture appreciation aswell as have a few well known faces showing up here and there. Gtreat humour and a film that should have everyone smirking at least

A feelgood movie

I enjoyed Barbershop. I thought it was a nice triumph-against-the-odds comedy, similar in feel, if not content to films like 'Sister Act'.

The plot revolves around Calvin whose ambition is to have his own recording studio, but who feels obligated to run the family barbershop. The film is set during one day at the shop, and mainly stays there, with a few digressions around the neighbourhood. There's not much action in it: it mainly concentrates on interactions between the patrons and barbers in the shop and on Calvin's attempts to shore up his business's finances. Some of the younger actors like Sean Patrick Thomas (who played Jimmy James) Troy Garity (Isaac Rosenburg) and Michael Ealy (Ricky Nash) were excellent, and there were plenty of familar faces.

On the minus side, occasionally the jokes fall flat, and the switches between comedy and serious discussion seems jumpy or forced. There's a subplot involving a cash machine which is almost completely unneccessary except to give us a break from the interior of the shop and provide some slapstick humour.

The extras are so-so. The deleted scenes and out-takes are amusing, although the extra scenes don't add much to the plot. I have to confess I found the behind the scenes stuff a bit boring and self-congratulatory. There was also a music video and a trailer.

All-in-all, a nice feelgood movie for a night in. The sequel has just been released (06/02/2004) in the USA.

Simple story line great comedy!

Great comedy about a group of people working in a barbershop, seeing and hearing about everything that is going on in their ghetto! Lots of funny moments! Must see for all comedy fans!

Bland entertainment from ice cube?

Personally this is more of a drama than comedy. Not funny and predictable from begining to end. If you've seen Ice Cubes 'Friday After Next' then its basically the same but not funny. Nuff said

was brill

was brill film and good to watch the outer one were brill