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Starring: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer,
Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve
Directed by: Tim Story



Review

I love this movie from beggining to end. refreshing real life based comedy at its best with a touch of ghetto attitute . Shows what really goes on inside a barbershop. It displays the struggles of staying straight in a neighborhood surounded by crime and the internal personality conflicts inside the shop. It was surprisingly well-written and captivating. This movie has a little bit of everything and I recomend it. One of the best comedies ive seen this year.

"Eve"?.....You're in this movie Butter?

Cool.

Go see this movie......Butter demands it!!

I'd see it but I'm broke.....but I will see it....sometime.

I absolutely loved this movie. It is in my top three most entertaining movies of the year, along with Spider-Man and Bourne Identity. For one thing, it is nonstop comedy. Cedric The Entertainer is one of the most gifted stand-up comics on the scene today, and he was great as the crochety old man (the role Johnny Witherspoon would typically play, for example, in Friday). Ice Cube is great as a "straight man" in ensemble comedies like this, where every minor character is wackier than the next. Eve was really impressive in what I believe was her acting debut. And it prominently featured one of my favorite songs, "Got To Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye.

But what I especially loved about Barbershop was that every character was given a chance to be in the spotlight, and to go through a very positive change. Everyone "came of age" to one extent or another--for a movie that took place over the course of one day, everyone learned something or became a better person that day.

You may be thinking this sounds a lot like another great black comedy, Friday. And it is similar in many ways. I love Friday--it was one of our favorite movies back when I lived in the dorms, along with the Kevin Smith and Tarantino movies, so aside from being hilarious, it will always remind me of those happy times. Friday also has Cube as the center of a zany cast, it also takes place over the course of a single day, and even the plots themselves are extremely similar. But while the drug use in Friday may turn some potential viewers off, Barbershop is a very human story about people trying to get along and live life, and how they can rise to the occasion when they really have to.

"Checker Fred, shut up and play your checkers!"

Funny... I saw both One Hour Photo and Barbershop in the same day...

I liked Barbershop a lot. Very funny.

This movie was great! a defenite must see!

havent seen it.

heard there was a lotta controversy about it, tho? like black activist groups saying that there were too many racial jokes or something. i dunno, was on the news the other day -- didnt really listen.

info?

yea someone told me about that too but for me it was all part of the plot (didnt see nothing wrong with that) if they refer to the rosa parks and luther king comments well thats someone personal opinion about historial facts thats all and were made by black people themselves, the only racial thing i saw was a confrotation of a black man with a white one. The black saying the white is not being himself and his acting black and the white saying the black is not black enough, well thats what happens in real life, thats how things are sometimes and i dont see whats wrong with showing what really happens... People always make such a fuss about everything, especially if someone has a different opinion about things.