Barbershop 2: Back in
Business (2004)
5/10
Starring
Ice Cube
Cedric the Entertainer
Sean Patrick Thomas
Eve
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Here is a not too great continuation of the
iconic Barbershop
movie from 2002. The movie continues from the
first, but the comedic punch and unbelievable surprises that the first
Barbershop movie carried, is lacking in this sequel.
The characters are back and some new additions too.
This movie introduced the Beauty shop next door to which Calvin (Ice Cube) owns
and the shop is run by Gina (Queen Latifah), the Beauty Shop too had its feature
film.
The writers decided to split the way the comedy
is delivered. We get some from the Barbershop and others from the beauty shop. The
sad part is, all the comedy was more gentile like they wanted the movie to be
more family friendly, but in the end the movie was just lacking.
The movie’s plot shows us how Calvin has
settled into the role of owner of the Barbershop. Even though Calvin has
settled into his role as owner busy attending to the issues of his staff and
other things in the shop, his shop relevance to the people was being
threatened.
Next door was Gina, Calvin’s ex who runs a
Beauty Shop for the ladies of the neighborhood.
The threat to Calvin's Barbershop came from a
developer called Quentin. Quentin is very interested in taking the neighborhood
and turning it into a kind of Vegas feel.
His plan was to open right across the street
from Calvin's shop, a new Barbershop called Nappy Cutz.
Quentin wanted to bring into the neighborhood people
with money. He wanted to modernize the neighborhood and make it more appealing
to the rich. Why he decided to this by opening a Barbershop is beyond me, as
the script writers seem to have over emphasized the importance of a local barbershop.
The battle for relevance was on between the two
barbershops.
The movie had many other subplots going on in
the movie, some of which were just too relevant to lift the mood of the movie
or were too insignificant to matter.
After this movie there was a Barbershop 3, Barbershop:
The Next Cut (2016) which was much better than this movie, but not as
good as the first
movie.
The decision to take a different path in the
movie’s comedic tone and delivery told on the movie’s negative critical
reception. The first
movie made more than six times its production cost, while this movie
made twice its production cost.
After this was the spinoff, Beauty Shop. Beauty
Shop was carved in the same way as the first
Barbershop, but the comedy was more this Barbershop sequel. The spinoff
didn’t have much success in the box office either.
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