The first "Barbershop" was funny, sassy and clever. "Barbershop 2" is just plain boring. It exists in a world where everybody does what they're supposed to do instead of acting human.
The plot is a retread of the first "Barbershop": Ice Cube is feeling pressure to sell his father's barbershop. Only this time, to a black-owned conglomerate who want to put up a men's hair salon across the street. But of course, in the end, Cube re-discovers what keepin' it real is all about. And if you think I've just ruined the movie, I haven't. Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan and screenwriter Don D Scott ruined it before I ever started writing this review.
I was the most disappointed in Cedric the Entertainer. Nine times out of ten, he can be counted on to be funny. In this film, he just wheezes and mumbles, except in flashbacks to the 1960's where the "young" Eddie acts heroically and romances the girl of his dreams (Garcelle Beauvais). As for the rest of the cast . . . well, they're talented rappers.
In this film, there is no real sense of conflict, which means that there is no real point to speak of. This might be forgivable if the movie was funny, but it isn't. It's just a preachy, weakly-written, poorly-acted, un-funny follow-up to a movie that didn't need a sequel. 5 out of 10.
The plot is a retread of the first "Barbershop": Ice Cube is feeling pressure to sell his father's barbershop. Only this time, to a black-owned conglomerate who want to put up a men's hair salon across the street. But of course, in the end, Cube re-discovers what keepin' it real is all about. And if you think I've just ruined the movie, I haven't. Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan and screenwriter Don D Scott ruined it before I ever started writing this review.
I was the most disappointed in Cedric the Entertainer. Nine times out of ten, he can be counted on to be funny. In this film, he just wheezes and mumbles, except in flashbacks to the 1960's where the "young" Eddie acts heroically and romances the girl of his dreams (Garcelle Beauvais). As for the rest of the cast . . . well, they're talented rappers.
In this film, there is no real sense of conflict, which means that there is no real point to speak of. This might be forgivable if the movie was funny, but it isn't. It's just a preachy, weakly-written, poorly-acted, un-funny follow-up to a movie that didn't need a sequel. 5 out of 10.