Should have been subtitled Going Through the Motions. This is a pale imitation that never takes off and never really seems to mind.

| Original Score: C | Nov 16, 2019

Great message delivered in an edgy hip-hop movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Manages to throw away everything that made the first film so good.

| Apr 29, 2009

Provides enough solid, character-based amusement to put customers in the chairs and send them out content with services rendered.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

It's the kind of set-piece ensemble that has proven immensely successful as a sitcom formula but tends to struggle to meet the demands of a movie.

| Oct 18, 2008

Schoolyard jokes about religious faiths, genetic traits, and sexuality which only work if you enjoy laughing at people because they are darker-skinned, or curlier-haired, or perverted, or have emigrated from another continent.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2007

As amusing as Cedric the Entertainer, Ice Cube, Thompson, and the rest are, they're not breaking any new ground in this film -- just touching up an old 'do.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2006

Inane banter soon takes over and is not helped by an unlikely, flashback-heavy subplot about Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) and a lost love.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

It ain't high art, but it is a fun flick.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

While many of the same elements that worked in the original work just as well here, there aren't quite as many laughs, and some of the depth has gone.

| Sep 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2005

Barbershop 2 is a weak, too rarely humorous, too long bore.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 7, 2004

The banter is tighter and funnier, and Calvin's musings on the importance of community seem more heartfelt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2004

This smart, feisty comedy is still ghetto-fabulous enough to make you laugh until your short, back and sides ache.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2004

A direct hit on Jesse Jackson.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2004

Both films are flawed and unfocused. Both have thin plots that must rely on even thinner back-stories to flesh out a feature length film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 7, 2004

The gist of this film can be summed in one short phrase: 'Sorry. My bad.'

Full Review | Mar 24, 2004

Barbershop 2 achieves what most sequels can only wish for: it's actually much better than the original film.

| Original Score: B | Mar 16, 2004

This likable, lackadaisical comedy proves more focused than the first film yet lacks much of its comic bite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 24, 2004

Tries hard, but the routine feels a little too familiar. It's like getting a trim when what you really need is a new style.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2004