Movie Review: Beauty Shop

Name: Beauty Shop

Actors: Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Andie McDowell, Mena Suvari

Awards/Nominations: BET Comedy Award (Nominated), Black Movie Award (Nominated), Teen Choice Award (Nominated)

Plot: A wonderful comedy about a woman (Queen Latifah), who buys a barber shop in the Atlanta "ghetto" from a local hairdresser, after she is fired from a posh hair studio. Queen Latifah battles with the startup costs of a small business and the mistrust from patrons of the previous owner. After her one of her old clients (Mena Suvari) shows Queen Latifah's "secret" conditioner to the corporate heads of Covergirl in New York, the world is at her fingertips.

Review: I thought this movie was a very inspirational comedy for the person curious about small business. The black stereotypes in this film were oh so very on-point. Birdman plays the local thug, who rolls on 22's and calls all the women "shawdy," while a woman rolls her friend chicken cart into Latifah's hair studio selling to the patrons. Like most other Queen Latifah movies, she plays the large woman in charge influencing everyone and their mother. I watched this movie on BET which completed my cultural experience with commercial breaks featuring Wendy Williams, and Monique pushing their horrible talk shows. Overall this movie made my night, maybe even month. Oh and Alicia Silverstone plays a black woman.

5 Movie Plot Summaries in 5 Sentences

1. Caddyshack - Caddies play golf against rich snobs in a golf tournament, and bill murray is in it.

2. Fight Club - Schizophrenic makes himself believe that he is hanging around with Brad Pitt, and proceeds to try and blow up all the credit card buildings with bombs made of human fat.

3. WALL-E - Small, lovable trash compactor robot left on earth to clean up the mess humans made, he falls in love with a robot sent by refugee humans in space to find life on earth.

4. Terminator 2 - Robot sent back in time by the humans battles a more developed robot sent back in time by the machines to save the leader of the human army as a child.

5. No Country for Old Men - a man stumbles across a drug deal gone bad and finds $2 million dollars in cash, but is chased by a scary Spanish man with a cow skull puncturer.


-Rahb


1. American History X - Edward Norton hangs out with friends at the jail and then comes back, is a changed man.

2. Jungle 2 Jungle - Tim Allen goes to the woods and brings his son back to New York.

3. Midnight Run - Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin go for a bike ride.

4. Munich - Eric Bana tries out for the olympics, this is a period piece.

5. State and Main - "Well that happened."

- Monty