{"id":29012,"date":"2018-09-19T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29012"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:13:10","slug":"beauty-shop-2005-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/beauty-shop-2005-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty Shop (2005) [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The spin off for the \u201cBarbershop\u201d movie is a good idea on paper. On paper. I mean Queen Latifah is better at acting than Ice Cube, so it seemed like a slam dunk. The attempted launch of a new series within the \u201cBarbershop\u201d franchise is not only one big misfire, but it\u2019s dead on arrival from minute one. \u201cBeauty Shop\u201d isn\u2019t a prequel, or a sequel, but mainly just a movie that\u2019s set in the universe of \u201cBarbershop.\u201d When we see Gina Norris from \u201cBarbershop 2\u201d again, she\u2019s working at an upscale salon in Atlanta and she has a picture of the gang from Calvin\u2019s shop hanging on her mirror. Beyond that there isn\u2019t much at all to \u201cBeauty Shop.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After being recruited to a hot new boutique in Atlanta, Gina finds her niche among an upscale boss named Jorge. But after an altercation, she seeks to open her own salon. Armed with some young hair stylists, including former co-worker Lyne, Gina hopes to make a success out of her business, as Jorge looks for ways to sabotage her. Meanwhile, she begins falling for a local mailman, all the while ensuring her daughter does well in her performing arts school. When it\u2019s not being insanely silly, it painfully mimics the \u201cBarbershop\u201d movie series but just flips it. Instead of a beautiful woman working in a barbershop, we\u2019ll have a good looking guy working the beauty shop! Instead of a white guy working among African American men, we\u2019ll have a Southern white girl working among African American women!<\/p>\n

Oh and unlike Troy Garity, this new character will constantly be asking \u201cGee y\u2019all, why can\u2019t white people say the N word?!\u201d Oh and instead of an old barber preaching about life, we\u2019ll have an older woman sitting by the side, moaning about poetry! Man, this movie is writing itself. To make things worse, so much of the movie is so trite and doesn\u2019t have any kind of thought put in to it. I kind of saw where everything was going from the moment some scenes were established. So Gina can\u2019t get a loan for her new shop, because her loan manager is tough but she\u2019s also quite disheveled. So Gina follows her in to the bathroom and gives her a make over to catch the eye of her bank manager. The loan manager is so enamored by the make over that she gives Gina the loan. Isn\u2019t life so sugary sweet? And to add to the goofy sitcom clich\u00e9s, Gina plans to buy an upscale salon but can only afford a run down seventies boutique.<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know it? Despite barely getting the loan she needed, she\u2019s able to completely whip her place up in shape, with some good classic music, and a great montage. I\u2019d excuse all of that if \u201cBeauty Shop\u201d had an actual plot. With this spin off, there is nothing but a sequence of events that unfold, and beyond the goofy \u201cgirl power\u201d overtones, there isn\u2019t a plot to be seen at all. If anything, the cast are very good. I especially enjoy Queen Latifah as Gina, while Alicia Silverstone is fun as Lyne. Beyond that, \u201cBeauty Shop\u201d is a weak regurgitation of its male counterpart. Say what you want about the \u201cBarbershop\u201d series but it earned a short lived series, and attempted reboot, while \u201cBeauty Shop\u201d\u2014uh\u2014has Andie MacDowell asking black women about that \u201cJanice Jackson.\u201d Because she\u2019s white<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Blu-Ray from the MVD Marquee Collection includes select commentary for certain scenes in the film. Although the commentary plays through the whole movie, director Bille Woodruff only contributes thirty five minutes of commentary altogether. \u201cBeauty Shop: Inside the Style\u201d is a fifteen minute EPK that takes a glossier, superficial look at the making of the movie with Latifah hosting. There\u2019s your standard gag reel with people flubbing lines and laughing, and \u201cBeauty Shop: Sneak Peek\u201d which is a more truncated EPK with just as superficial coverage as the former. Finally there are the original trailers for this, \u201cBarbershop,\u201d and \u201cBarbershop 2.\u201d<\/p>\n