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

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 6, 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

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

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

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The movie is a little windy and over-the-top, and the gossipy references to J-Lo and Anna Nicole Smith are woefully outdated.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

Everything about it is whompingly (whoopingly?) obvious, from the hit-you-over-the-head narration to the tidy ending.

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

The Salon had any genuine sass clipped out of it to fit a PG-13 rating.

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

The unremitting jokes and insults between blacks and whites, gays and straights, might make the hair on your head (and arms) press and curl from all of the crass and overdone sass.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 10, 2007

The main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2007

The comic equivalent of microwaved leftover food -- and pretty stale at that.

| May 10, 2007

Good-natured but curiously flat, a bottle of root beer that's lost its fizz.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2007

This girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors.

Full Review | May 8, 2007

Writer-director Mark Brown, he of the Barbershop franchise, also has an inexplicable fondness for close-ups that cut off the tops of the actors' heads -- unfortunate in a movie about hair.

| May 8, 2007