Barbershop

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The Hair Cutting Comedy of the Year

Review on Barbershop

Tim Story’s film on Chicago’s South Side barbershop is a very interesting comedy

with a unique plot to it. This movie has a very strong opinion on many events in the history of

black people and there rights. This movie was a huge success in the box office and is doing very

well on DVD and VHS mainly due to the cast and there wonderful performance. Starring Ice

Cube, a well known rapper in the Hip-Hop community, as Calvin a soon to be father and

struggling barbershop owner, Cedric The Entertainer who is a senior citizen who still cuts hair

and hands off his wisdom on the younger generation, and Sean Patrick Thomas a know it all

black college student with aspirations beyond belief. This movie also has excellent characters

with little or no experience, (Troy Garity) a “white boy” that gains no respect in “the hood” and a

Nigerian immigrant. Also many critics say that this is a very honest tale of how an urban

barbershop truly is, as far as, speaking openly in the establishment. Although many critics would

say Barbershop has a less then perfect plot line they seem to all agree that the cast and comical

structure well make up for it and none are disappointed with the amount of laughter that came





out of this movie.

Several critics have not been so generous with reviews on the plot of this comedy. For

one example, Marshall Fine says that the plot is a “less-successful plot involving hip-hop

comedy.” He goes on stating how the sub-plot is less then he expected and hoped for also. The

plot switches from teaching the younger barbers on life to a “hip hop Laurel and Hardy” trying to

steal money from a stolen empty ATM machine. Other than that the best scenes showing

comical genius is when Cedric The Entertainer playing Ed a senior barber discusses his belief on

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