oscaralbert Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut

Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

Warner Bros. gives a shout out . . .

[7/10 · 29 April 2016]

. . . of warning to The Artist Once-and-For-All Known as Prince toward the end of BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT. However, as usual, this clarion cry fell upon deaf ears. Despite making an emergency landing in his private jet to treat drug overdose symptoms during BARBERSHOP's opening weekend, the Purple One's People threw caution to the wind and checked him out after only three hours when they found out that there was not a private hospital wing at their immediate disposal in Moline, IL. The U.S. Secret Service hasn't lost a President since 1963, but we in the Public have lost Elvis, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and now Prince during these intervening years because America is obsessed with protecting the stone-cold faces on Mount Rushmore better than it takes care of its Living Monuments. Why should the Secret Service be safe-guarding Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, while little-looked-after National Treasures such as Heath Ledger, Robin Williams, Selena, Paul Walker, and Prince are dropping like flies? (Of course, Cedric the Entertainer gives Barack Obama a George Jefferson 'Do during BARBERSHOP's closing credits--could this be ANOTHER Warner warning?)