Barbershop

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Summary: Simple yet funkilicious...
Review: This movie is one for the money..Its a great movie that leaves u feelin good days after the credits roll. It has this very tender mood throughout and its not filled with senseless profanity. Believe me, once you watch this movie, you're gonna wanna watch it again and again and again. It will definitely bring you back to that moment when you laughed from the heart...

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Summary: Fun, funny, and compassionate
Review: Ice Cube has been busy lately. Not long ago, he produced and acted in All About the Benjamins. If you want to see a really good, really funny movie, rent that. Now, in theaters, is Barbershop. It's not as funny as Benjamins, but it's just as good, if not better. It addresses serious problems in the black community, and there are strong lessons of friendship and loyalty within. It has Jesse Jackson extremely angry though. Perhaps that's because he receives some brutal lip. I think it's all jokes, but this man went as far as to suggest a boycott of this movie. Anyway, Barbershop is one heck of a good time, and it's another movie that has made me realize I have some black in me. I got nothin' but love for Barbershop.

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Summary: barbershop
Review: I could not stop the dvd player fast enough. The movie is a waste of time. I didn't find it funny in any way

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Summary: The best black movie of 2002 next to Drumline
Review: I can go on and on about how much I like Barbershop because it has no gangstas or sex like other black films do, but it's more important to like a film for what it is, not for what it isn't. And what this film is is a funny and interesting story about a day in the life of a few barbers. What I like the most about this movie is that there are different plots happening (i.e., Calvin [Ice Cube] selling the shop by accident, the two guys stealing the ATM machine), but they all intertwine together towards the end to make one story. My favorite scene is when everyone was dancing to Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up", because that song gave the characters a time to relax. Jesse Jackson complained about barber Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer)'s derogatory comments about MLK, Rosa Parks, and other black heroes, but he's just mad because Eddie joked about him, too. By the way, I heard that the producers are gonna edit out that scene because of all the flack it's receiving, so you should get a copy before it's too late.

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Summary: Razorsharp and Scissors Cutting Humor...
Review: Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube) is always scheming for the quick fix that can set up his family with a lot of money and a nice house. Although Calvin attempts to raise quick money, he is also running a barbershop that he has inherited from his father, which has been in his family for 40 years. It seems like Calvin has problems raising enough money to pay the property tax and the bank is threatening to take the barbershop unless he pays. While Calvin is struggling with the financial and social responsibilities that come with owning a shop with employees there is intriguing conversations taking place in the shop. These conversations deal with issues such as love, isms, gossip, and much more. The Barbershop provides comical situations as well as a hilarious performance by Cedric the Entertainer, as Eddie, who has been working at the Barbershop for ages. At the end, this film offers an entertaining experience that is presented in moments of clever awareness with regards to honorable morals.

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Summary: Great Story
Review: WOW! I loved this movie. The only thing unfortunate was that the movie was a little slow. If you can overlook that, you won't regret it. It was a wonderful story.

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Summary: Get your hair did!
Review: Barbershop is a highly comedic movie about a group of friends who work at the local barbershop owened by Calvin Palmer. Calvin inherited the shop from his father who made it a tradition to not only help those who worked there, but to help those who just walked in the door. Ice Cube plays Calvin Palmer, a man who has aspirations to be more than he is. What he hasn't realized is that he is already more then he knows. Calvin has tried every get rich scheme he can, and has finally figured out that he can do it by opening a record studio in his garage. In order to get it off the ground, he has to have the capital, this is where the barbershop comes into play. The local crime boss type offers Calvin $... for the shop and promises that it wil always say Barbershop on the front window. What he doesnt tell Calvin until after he agress is that it will actually be a gentlemens club called The Barbershop, where a man can get a haircut and a little extra off the top at the same time. However, now that Calvin has agreed to it, he can't back out. He has to figure out some way to save the shop for his friends sake. Each character has their own quirky charm. Eve is stellar as the tough girl who has a man she needs to get rid of, and by the way, dont drink her apple juice. Cedric the Entertainer plays the oldest barber to still be not cutting hair. Even the token white boy is fun to watch. Calvin has to find a way to save the barbershop that he didnt realize he loved before it gets taken away from him forever.

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Summary: Controversial, But Still Very Funny
Review: This movie received a lot of attention, not necessarily in the box office, but in the media because of its alleged offensiveness to African Americans, especially a number of prominent black leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. After watching the movie, it seems to me that the "offensive" comments were in good taste in relation to the entire movie.

I have to admit that the controversy is what drew me to this movie, but it didn't take long for me to realize that this is a well-made comedy. The movie stars Ice Cube as Melvin, the heir to a failing barbershop. The entire story happens during the course of a day. Melvin reluctantly decides to sell his barbershop for $20,000 to a loan shark (Keith David) who plans on turning it into a strip club, though he decides not to give his employees the bad news until the end of the day. Most of the movie takes place in the barbershop, where all the barbers and their customers engage in all types of banter for the duration of the day. The banter is what sparked the controversy in the media. Cedric the Entertainer plays an old man named Eddie, who has been working as a barber in the shop since it opened 40 years before. He has the most famous line in the movie when he says "There are three things that y'all need to realize. #1- Rodney King should have got his ... beat for drunk drivin' in a white part of Los Angeles. #2- O.J. did it. and #3- Rosa Parks didn't do nuthin' but sit ... down." Though, not all the dialogue in the movie is this heated. Eddie is also the one who gets Melvin to realize the importance of the barbershop. He tells Melvin that black people in that neighborhood thought of the shop as "their own country club." Melvin has a change of heart and decides he doesn't want to sell the shop, and now he has to figure out how to cancel the deal with the loan shark.

There's also a funny subplot involving two guys from the neighborhood who steal an ATM machine from a liquor store, and how they spend the day trying to figure out a way to break into the machine and take out the cash.

While I can see how this movie might be offensive to some people, I'm quite certain that MLK, Rosa Parks, and other prominent black leaders mentioned in this movie have secured their place in history, and this movie isn't going to harm their legacy. This is a funny and entertaining movie, and definitely worth a look.

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Summary: Just Plain Fun
Review: It's kind of surprising to see Ice Cube in such a middle class, middle of the road movie. It's a long way from BOYZ N THE HOOD, but with the FRIDAY films, ANACONDA and now this, he continues to reinvent himself in role after role.

BARBERSHOP is good, clean, family-friendly fun. Oh sure, there's some spicy language and unsavory characters, but the movie presents positive values about family, neighborhood, trust and loyalty. It's a raucous comedy, but it really has its heart in the right place, which is one of the reasons you can watch it again and again.

The plot is fairly straightforward, and nothing new. Calvin Palmer, the character played by ice Cube, struggles with the choice to sell the family barbershop for the money he needs to pay off his bills and pursue his get-rich-quick schemes, or to keep it going in the memory of his father and for the good of his employees. There are plenty of twists in the plot, but in the end, of course it all works out for the best.

The main plot is paralleled by a story about two comic crooks trying to break into an ATM machine. This plot is given some weight in how it affects Ricky (Michael Ealy), an ex-con whose job in the shop gives him a chance to go straight. This plot is played mostly for laughs, but because it has some real consequences, it doesn't feel tacked on.

Cedric the Entertainer steals the show as Eddie, an old-timer whose curmudgeonly opinions are the reason Jesse Jackson called for a boycott of the movie, but who turns out to have the wisdom to help Calvin make the right choice in the end. Watch for the scene when Eddie demonstrates how to give a shave. A character who could have been simply comic relief is given real respect.

The movie isn't great, but it's funny and heartwarming, and even more effective on the small screen.

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Summary: Simply Put...Hilarious!
Review: I really liked this film! I was expecting to get turned off by the Rosa Parks comment but I saw how it was used and I wasn't offended. Besides the movie was funny. It was a bloody comedy for goodness sakes and positive black comedy at that and not to be taken too politically. The dvd goodies were great as well and Eve's performance was particularly...inspiring.