| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2001

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 9, 2001

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2001

The script by Simon Beaufoy of The Full Monty fame is far more soapy than bubbly as it concentrates on extended family entanglements and allows its comic potential to be bleached out by a ponderous mawkish streak.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2001

Blow Dry seems both overplotted and underimagined.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 9, 2001

A tedious comedy.

| Mar 9, 2001

What Blow Dry needs, though, is less connect-the-dots and a little more of the waywardness that Warren Clarke's mayor-turned-emcee manages to wring from his limited assignment.

Full Review | Mar 9, 2001

It's fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2001

Apparently [the town inhabitants] haven't heard of the healing properties of chocolate or male stripping.

| Original Score: C | Mar 8, 2001

More interaction involving the hairdressers and the townspeople - along with the deletion of one or two meaningless side plots - might have given Blow Dry more body.

| Mar 8, 2001

It may be possible that people who never go to the movies will stumble across Blow Dry and find it a charming way to spend an hour and a half, but the rest of us will have the ending written in our heads by the end of the first five minutes.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2001

It's not a good hair day for Blow Dry, in which The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy tries to mesh melodrama and camp, but comes up with merely a fraction of the inspiration of his previous international hit.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2001

If you can handle weepy smiles and lots of hairspray, then go.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2001

Few things can be counted on to lift a person's spirits better than a good haircut. If Blow Dry isn't quite so sure a bet, it probably comes close enough.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2001

If Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2001

You find yourself liking many of these people and even sort of rooting for the Cut Above team.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2001

Director Paddy Breathnach, who made the criminally underrated I Went Down, struggles to counteract the hackneyed plotting with visual grace. All the actors likewise struggle to rise above the mawkish sentimentality.

| Mar 8, 2001

Despite its dollops of good-natured humor and sentiment, Blow Dry is likely to play better on the tube as a likable-enough diversion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 8, 2001