Barbershop (Special Edition)

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Funny, 2008-06-23
barbershop is one of those nonesense movies that you can actually enjoy. it has witty comedy and good comedians such as ice cube, cedric the entertainer more. this is a very good movie. it's a must see

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Right on target: Laugh out loud funny, sharp wit; great lines, 2008-05-11
Great Saturday (or any day, actually) movie. Very funny from beginning to end! Where else but the barbershop (or the beauty shop) can anyone "tell the truth," as Eddie the "senior" barber (portrayed by Cedric the Entertainer) says! It's good ... The lines weren't THAT controversial, were they? How many stories in the press haven't been a bit exaggerated here and there? How many "legends" have their flaws and faults ... even JFK? Why take offense. It's the community of the barbershop that counts! We like the staccato lines. It's a movie that can be watched numerous times, and you'll still hear something new... like Eddie's comments at the end about Arizona and Martin Luther King ... Watch it for yourself and find out! Also, there's a hilarious journey of the stolen ATM machine!

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"Checker Fred! Just sit there and play checkers!", 2008-05-08
There are kids out there who only know Ice Cube from movies. If he's not there yet, I do believe that Cube is getting precariously close to becoming better known as an actor than a rapper. As someone who's bounced up and down to his hip hop flavor since his NWA days, I can't help but feel that this is a bit of a shame. On the other hand, I do enjoy his film stuff. Dude's got his mojo going on cinema. Certainly, Cube's been one of the few folks who've successfully transitioned from music to movies. BARBERSHOP is one of his best films, and just may be my favorite Ice Cube flick. br / br /BARBERSHOP is an ensemble comedy which covers a day in the life of Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin's Barbershop has been a fixture in Chicago's seamy South Side for three generations now. It's the hangout of choice for the impoverished neighborhood, a place to chill, where verbal gamesmanship is engaged, controversial opinions are voiced ("This ain't nothing but healthy conversation."), and the earthy conversations range from Civil Rights issues to whether a scallop is a shellfish. It serves as the pulse of the community. In fact, when a hood wanted to learn the word on the street, he sends his henchman to the barbershop. Ice Cube plays Calvin Palmer, the barbershop's beleaguered proprietor, who early in the film makes the mistake of selling his establishment to a loan shark. Calvin spends much of the film trying to get it back. br / br /There's a silly subplot involving two inept dudes who steal an ATM machine. But, really, although laced with its own funny moments, that storyline serves primarily as breathing room away from the barbershop scenes. Less claustrophobic, this way. According to the audio commentary, Anthony Anderson was the first actor signed, and it was felt that his scenes ought to be expanded more. br / br /I really enjoy this movie. BARBERSHOP is funny and sweet and rowdy (in a PG-13 kind of way). And it glows with such easy warmth. Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer are the big names, and, make no mistake, they earn their paychecks. Cube mainly plays the straight man here, and he nicely rides herd over his boisterous bunch. Certainly, his solid presence grounds the film. Which is good, because a lot of the other characters are pretty colorful. And Cedric the Entertainer's Eddie just may be the most offbeat of 'em all. Eddie's an old, grizzled barber (with unconvincing makeup) who dispenses funny lines and occasional nuggets of wisdom, certainly much more so than he doles out shaves and haircuts. The supporting cast knocks it out the park, with three particular standouts: Sean Patrick Thomas as the snobbish college graduate, lovely hip hop artist Eve as the tough but vulnerable Terri, and Michael Ealy as the two-time felon Ricky. On the villainous tip, Keith David is slimily memorable in his few scenes as the loan shark Lester Wallace. br / br /Honestly, this is some of the funniest riffs I've ever heard, with plenty of "Oh, no, he didn't!!" moments. And the good-natured feel of the film makes it that much easier to like. I don't know why this is, but my favorite moment in the film (and I have many favorite moments here) happens to be when Jimmy and Isaac were about to go at it, and then, out of the blue, Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up (Part One)" plays out of the radio and eases all tensions. It was, I dunno, cathartic. Check it out, and see what you think. br / br /(By the way, I liked the sequel, too.) br / br /And, lastly (since I guess I'm still thinking about the dude's hip hop career), if I had to compare BARBERSHOP, my favorite Ice Cube flick, to an Ice Cube song, that song would have to be the laid back, feel good "It Was A Good Day." Which, coincidentally, is my favorite Ice Cube song. It figures, right?

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One of Ice Cube's best films, 2008-04-01
I had very high execpations walking into Barbershop back in 2002 and my execpations went way past what I thought. Barbershop is clealry one of the best films I've seen . The story is a simple one but the film acutally goes into depth anout how important a barber shop is to the Black Amercian community or any ethnic group for that matter. Ice Cube gives an NAACP Image award worthy performance in the film as Calvin. Cube is cool and charamistic as Calvin the owner of the shop and his supporting cast of Sean Patrick Thomas (who needs more roles),Eve (great debut), Leonard Howze and Mike Ealy all give good performances. Troy Gairty as Issac the white barber and Cedric The Enterainer as the elder barber steal all almost every scene their in. Lahmard Tate and Anthony Anderson along with Keith David also do well in the two subplots. Tim Story has made a great debut and Mark Brown's script is excellent.

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Great movie with a lot of heart, 2008-01-22
Barbershop is awesome. it's a very nice, humble movie about Calvin (Ice Cube) who inherits a barbershop from his father. Thing is that Calvin doesn't want to run the barbershop, he wants to do other stuff, including trying to produce music, which fails. br /His shop is about to be foreclosed by the bank, so he goes to Lester Wallace who is going to buy the shop and turn it into a strip club. br /That's the story line, but there is much more to it. br / br /The acting is awesome, the story line is good, the comedy is funny, Cedric the Entertainer is AWESOME in this movie as Old Man Eddie. br / br /What i love so much about this movie is that it's easy to follow and it's got a lot of heart. you can tell that in this movie, there is a lot of heart and that is was made from the soul, which many movies today lack. br / br /the cast gells right away and you can see the immediate click between them. br / br /i love this movie so much that i wish i could go to this barbershop, which sadly are becoming things of the past. br / br /great movie, a lot of heart and all soul. this is soul food.