Barbershop
Director: Tim Story
Year Released: 2002
Rating: 2.0
People calling this a minstrel show and complaining about Cedric the Entertainer's speeches about Black icons are really, really getting worked up over nothing – if anything, Cedric's character is portrayed as being a senile kook and the conversations inside the barbershop are as short as this film review. Director Story never figures out that his picture is over plotted and that his real strength is inside the shop; he never lets his characters talk long enough about much of anything before nervously cutting to something else outside the shop (namely, the never-ending ATM robbery). Not nearly as funny as it should be – though what my film-going bud said may be true: "I think we missed most of the jokes because we aren't the target audience." Might be a funny stage-play: one set, one full day, all those people.
