Pretty Good

As Good As It Gets

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Calvin ( Ice Cube) owns a barbershop in the infamous South Side of Chicago. He is combined with a salon as both women and men cut hair, although I am not sure why the guys have their hair cut by guys. The group includes a good cross section of characters and personalities. They must deal with the battle of the sexes, including misogyny, raising children, and gang violence. About half way through the film, after good character introductions, they opt to try a cease fire by offering free haircuts on the weekend to rival gang members creating a neutral ground.I was pleasantly surprised. Ice Cube got to play a more serious role in this dramedy. Topics included the Kardashians, R.Kelly, and the word "fleek." The shop has more barbers than customers and some characters only appear for a moment and then leave...like Isaac (Troy Garity) a white guy who likes black women. The shop also has an Indian barber (Utkarsh Ambudkar) to give us a different perspective and has to ask permission to say the "N" word.Like "Chi-Raq," the film is all about saving Chicago from gang violence, as more successful African-Americans are reaching back. It was a good heart warming comedy/drama with a positive message for Chicago.Guide: 1 F-word I recall from Ice Cube. No sex or nudity. Adult talk.

As their surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, the crew at Calvin's Barbershop come together to bring some much needed change to their neighborhood. Barbershop: The Next Cut was a pretty good film and i'm surprised that it got only a 5.9 here on IMDb it's by no means the best movie of the year but the chemistry between everyone was amazing and especially Ice Cube who is so great in the movie and the same goes for Common i mean even Nicki Minaj was good in here and i liked how they mixed the dramatic moments with the humor and made you laugh but at the same time it made you feel bad about all those people who get killed every day because of the color of their skin or because they meet the wrong people and they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the end Barbershop 3 has good acting and good direction that will give you a good entertainment and spend your free time well i'll give it a 10/10.

Barbershop: The Next CutThe difference between a black and white barbershop is that police don't shoot up the latter every other week.Surprisingly, it's not the cops conducting drive-bys in this comedy, but gangbangers.As the owner of the first coed barbershop/salon, Calvin (Ice Cube) is constantly caught in the crossfire of the daily disputes between his female (Nicki Minaj, Eve) and male (Common, Sean Patrick Thomas, Cedric the Entertainer) employees. But he's caught in a deadlier crossfire when a turf war erupts on the block. To fight back, he throws a benefit for the neighbourhood that garners national attention. While this shearing series is showing signs of lassitude, especially in the laugh department, this second sequel is on point when it comes to the issue of gun-violence. However, Common's infidelity sub-plot involving Nicki Minaj undermines the message. Furthermore, with women around men can no longer hangout at the barbershop all-day drinking Barbicide. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I admit to being a fan of both the Barbershop series and Ice Cube or at least the Ice Cube I've seen in a few movies. I can't say I personally know the man. This is, again, a combination of in store banter, which is by far the most entertaining aspect of the movie, a bit of personal issues with families outside the shop and again, like in #2, addressing larger social issues which face the US. The banter is great. The personal issues are rather mundane - you've seen them all before done as well as here. The social issues will split the audience. The Big Question comes up: what to do about black on black violence which in Chicago (the setting) claims maybe a dozen lives a week. Sadly, the movie takes the easy road blaming slavery and citing as heroes Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. These are heroes to the black community? Two thugs? Well, that's the way many see things including Cube, apparently. Still, in the end, an enjoyable feel good movie which paradoxically portrays black folks not as typical Hollywood caricatures, but as humans. That alone is worth the price of admission.