I finally got to watch this recently after slowly working my way through all Queen Latifah films. I find her comforting to watch, a very sensible & warm person, but she does tend to play exactly the same self assured characters and her character in Beauty Shop is no different.
All the actors did their best best with what they had to work with, and this film is a perfectly okay way to fill a Sunday afternoon as long as you don't pay too much attention.
Unfortunately this film suffers from 2 major flaws which are dragging down the rating. The first is the odd, choppy pacing. Some scenes that do not move the plot along are unnecessary and go on much longer than needed, whereas others that showed promise just suddenly end. The person in charge of editing needs to take up a different career.
The second flaw, which is the one that grinds most people (including myself) is the script/screenplay. It appears all the black characters have been created by an ignorant white person, and all the white characters were created by an ignorant black person. Every single trope for both is here and just becomes cringe inducing in far too many scenes. The actors deserved so much better and I cannot believe Queen Latifah was part of the creation process.
All the actors did their best best with what they had to work with, and this film is a perfectly okay way to fill a Sunday afternoon as long as you don't pay too much attention.
Unfortunately this film suffers from 2 major flaws which are dragging down the rating. The first is the odd, choppy pacing. Some scenes that do not move the plot along are unnecessary and go on much longer than needed, whereas others that showed promise just suddenly end. The person in charge of editing needs to take up a different career.
The second flaw, which is the one that grinds most people (including myself) is the script/screenplay. It appears all the black characters have been created by an ignorant white person, and all the white characters were created by an ignorant black person. Every single trope for both is here and just becomes cringe inducing in far too many scenes. The actors deserved so much better and I cannot believe Queen Latifah was part of the creation process.