Gosh, what a terrible movie. Stereotypes galore, and the humor falls flat. Paul Chambers, CNN.

| Original Score: D- | Jan 1, 2010

Like a third-rate Beauty Shop. Skip it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 1, 2007

Vivica A. Fox proves to be a warm and appealing anchor for sometimes sitcom-level silliness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2007

I've seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 6, 2007

Not funny enough, romantic enough, or serious enough to succeed as a comedy, romance or urban issues drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100 | Jul 26, 2007

The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 10, 2007

The movie was shot more than three years before its release, and it shows, as when the salon's resident golddigger says: "Anna Nicole Smith -- I aspire to be just like her."

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 18, 2007

At least Norbit tried to come up with fresh new awfulness instead of idling in these familiar old ruts.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | May 15, 2007

Talks its way to a tedious, predictable conclusion that offers more yawns than laughs.

| May 14, 2007

The film's feisty cast and generally sunny outlook make for warm and reassuring comfort viewing, the equivalent of a straight-from-the-box dish of mac and cheese.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2007

After scripting both Barbershops, writer-director Mark Brown appears to have exhausted his ability to create new and interesting characters to inhabit The Salon.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 11, 2007

Despite all the stock characters and scenarios, Fox and company manage to bring things to life. And cut some hair.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2007

The best scenes in Barbershop featured incisive discussions of current events. Here, the closest brush with topicality is a reference to Eddie Griffin.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 11, 2007

A feeble dramedy about a Baltimore beauty shop where someone should come in to sweep up the clichs.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | May 11, 2007

Given that Brown wrote the significantly superior Barbershop, he should know that when you make a socially conscious comedy, you've got to weave in plenty of wit alongside the wisdom.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2007

This movie abruptly becomes a too-convenient black history lesson, complete with a truly egregious deus ex machina. The Salon is a cut below.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 11, 2007

Like a perm that won't grow away, it's stuck in the race-comedy mold of Barbershop, Barbershop 2 and Beauty Shop. Been there, done that hair.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2007

Bottoms-out with this bit of dialogue: 'If you're going to be a ho, be an ambitious ho. Work uptown.' What unfortunate timing, given the whole Don Imus controversy. Life's simply too short for slur-ploitation with such lamentably low standards.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 11, 2007

This is one of those films where everything simply feels wrong, from the clunky dialogue to the obvious staging.

| May 11, 2007

The movie is a little windy and over-the-top, and the gossipy references to J-Lo and Anna Nicole Smith are woefully outdated.

| May 11, 2007