Movie Review
Beauty Shop
Latifah Needs To Wait For Chicago Part II
by: Reggie Eggert, for Entertainment
I
don't hate this movie. And that's about as positive as I'm gonna
be in this review of Beauty Shop.
Queen Latifah
plays Gina Norris, a big and beautiful hairstylist who moves from
Chicago to Atlanta to pursue her dream of owning her own beauty
shop. Unfortunately, in order to save money for her dream and
raise her daughter, she takes a job working at a salon owned by
an irritating sissy named Jorge, played by the omnipresent Kevin
Bacon. Bacon hasn't been this annoying since Footloose.
I don't like when straight men play gay characters. It's never
believable. Wait, that's that not true. It's only believable when
any Wayans brother other than Marlon does it. I wonder why that
is?
Anyway. Moving on. After a confrontation, Gina quits her job with
Jorge and decides to just get a loan to open her shop. She gets
her loan after cornering the loan officer in the restroom and
bringing a huge smile to her face. Awwwww yeah, I'll leave that
to your imaginations. Queen put it on that loan officer. Yup.
She did. Nasty. Nasty. Nasty. She set it off, if you get my drift.
So, the shop is opened, with a staff that includes Afre Woodard
(not funny...she's a dramatic actress...she and Angela Bassett
will never make me laugh), Alicia Silverstone (that bitch lost
her career and Reese Withserspoon found it), Golden Brooks (this
chick got a degree from Berkeley and always playing Ghetto types...what
a wack, dumb ho) and Bryce Wilson (this nigga's eyebrows are disturbing).
Keisha Knight Pulliam plays Queen's niece and she joins the staff
later. Her acting skills have seriously eroded. It saddened me.
If this thing had a plot, I'd talk about it, but I'm just gonna
be all over the place here, keeping with the spirit with the movie.
Of all the cameos in this movie, I'd say the best was made by
KiToy Johnson's ass. It illuminated the whole theater. If I had
to guess what was in the briefcase that Jules and Vincent brought
Marcellus, I'd say it was KiToy's ass. I'm serious!
Baby makes a good appearance, too. The #1 Stunna, played one of
the many boyfriends of Rudy's lil' ho'ing ass. He stole the scene
from her. He mumbled and stunted for about 80 seconds. Classic.
The best part of this whole sham was Paige Hurd as Gina's daughter.
That little sistah can act. She has a bright future, so long as
she doesn't go to Spelmen and give it up to them southern bammas
for six years like certain other actresses. Ahem, MaiaKeisha...
*cough*. Djimon Honsou also deserves recognition as The Only Nigga
With Some Sense! Hollywood needs to find a place for this brother.
He good dammit!
This movie is aight. I didn't hate it, but don't go see this piece
of shit. Latifah needs to do a buddy cop picture with Ellen or
Rosie O'Donnell.
