I saw "Barbershop: The Next Cut", starring Ice Cube-The Jump Street movies, The Ride Along movies; Cedric The Entertainer-The Soul Man_tv, A Haunted House; Eve-The Cookout, XXX; Common-Selma, Now You See Me and Regina Hall-Vacation_2015, Think Like a Man.
This is the 3rd in the Barbershop series-not counting the Queen Latifah spin-off, Beauty Shop in 2005. The first one was in 2002 and the second in 2004 so it has been about 12 years since the last one. Ice, Cedric and Eve are the original actors returning to the barbershop in Chicago, but there have been some changes since those previous movies, most noticeably being that the shop is now co-ed, with Regina in charge of a beauty shop sharing space withe Ice's crew. Common is Ice's friend that now works at the shop, too. They still have the barbershop humor of old, but now, there seems to be more political talk going on. Everything from Obama to gang violence and shootings in the neighborhood. The gang decides that their best option to put a stop to all the violence is to have a truce for 48 hours-and they also give away free haircuts during the grace period. The humor is still funny, as to be expected, but the rest gets a little heavy handed and unbelievable for me-Free haircuts will solve gang shootings and violence? Really? I think they should have stuck with the comedy and left the political messages for someone else. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 52 minutes. I don't think I would buy it on DVD but it would be fine as a rental.
This is the 3rd in the Barbershop series-not counting the Queen Latifah spin-off, Beauty Shop in 2005. The first one was in 2002 and the second in 2004 so it has been about 12 years since the last one. Ice, Cedric and Eve are the original actors returning to the barbershop in Chicago, but there have been some changes since those previous movies, most noticeably being that the shop is now co-ed, with Regina in charge of a beauty shop sharing space withe Ice's crew. Common is Ice's friend that now works at the shop, too. They still have the barbershop humor of old, but now, there seems to be more political talk going on. Everything from Obama to gang violence and shootings in the neighborhood. The gang decides that their best option to put a stop to all the violence is to have a truce for 48 hours-and they also give away free haircuts during the grace period. The humor is still funny, as to be expected, but the rest gets a little heavy handed and unbelievable for me-Free haircuts will solve gang shootings and violence? Really? I think they should have stuck with the comedy and left the political messages for someone else. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 52 minutes. I don't think I would buy it on DVD but it would be fine as a rental.