27 - Beauty Shop

Connection To THE BABYSITTER - Alicia Silverstone

The spin-off movie as never really looked like it's took off - films that are not necessarily sequels but feature one or more characters in another situation - Daredevil had Elektra, both of which are considered by the majority underwhelming movies, The Wolverine movies from X-Men are of of mixed opinion and stuff like The Marvel Avengers Universe and to a lesser extent the Kevin Smith View Askew is trickier when it comes to saying what is a spin-off of what, there's obviously a lot of spin-off movies I've left off but the lack of successes in the one's that did happen means some great supporting movie characters through cinema history haven't had the chance to have their day in the limelight.

Beauty Shop is the spin-off or (the sequel) to the two Barber Shop films, both of which starred Ice Cube with Queen Latifah co-starring in the second one, before writing this up I had not seen any of the three, so I am not sure how good this will be (or even how it stands in relation quality otherwise to the other two).

Queen Latifah whose a good screen presence is somebody I would never buy/rent a film because they was in it and hear she plays a beauty shop employee under the management of Jorge (Kevin Bacon) who after a dispute end up quitting as launching her own rival beauty shop and ends up taking the other salon workers and customers with her, that's kind of the plot really - it's one of those films that decides to spend time with it's characters rather then have a proper plot.

There was times I smiled and even laughed at some moments in the film, a lot of the characters are enjoyable, Kevin Bacon particularly is enjoyable even if he's playing a flamboyant foreign stereotype (I hear the character will be joining 2 Broke Girls soon...) as are Alfre Woodard, Alicia Silverstone (still looking pretty) and some of the more minor characters - there's also some familar faces as customers including Andie MacDowell and Mena Suvari who fit in good with the cast.

Overall a likable film that may be about 10-15 minutes too long, the characters are all good enough that's it's enough of a pleasure spending time with them.