Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

This is my review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (spoiler free) ***1/2 (3.5/5) Cast: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Sean Patrick Thomas, Common, Nicki Minaj.Plot: 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.The sequel to Barbershop is still as funny and as entertaining as the first. There aren't many sit-com style movies out there and Barbershop Th Next Cut is as fresh as it can get. Ice Cube stars as Calvin owner of Calvin's Barbershop and the majority of the film takes place in the shop. Very original because you don't see it done a lot. Director Malcolm D. Lee the maker of many other comedies returns with the second film in the Barbershop series. The scripting is very original and pretty much the entire film is banter and the banter is very good it is the key thing that made this film funny and actually bearable to watch. Calvin's Barbershop is just a normal business full of normal people, but the fact that it also has spiraling drama it makes this comedy just that little bit better.Here are some points as to why this is the comedy to watch: Story: The story follows from the first and sometimes this film has points to show that it is better than the first. The story feels slow at first but then when the tension unfolds that is when it really shines. Calvin not only has to run his business but he also has to cope with his son who is going off the rails. My personal favourite part about this film is the tension between Calvin and his son because of the love that Calvin shows and his son is just ignoring it, he cares more about his friends. The story feels very dynamic.Characters: The characters are all normal people with normal lives trying to make a living. Most of the key characters are employees in the shop itself, that is what makes this film original. My favourite character is Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Eddie is on the brink of retirement and it just seems like he doesn't want to leave. Eddie made this movie excruciatingly funny. Calvin is my second favourite character although he doesn't talk much in the film I guess that is because he is trying to get his work done but he is the one to break up the fights.This is an entertaining sequel and hopefully one that will just lift your heart with it's tension and it's drama. It is a very good slow paced comedy but sometimes they are the best comedies but only sometimes.The bad thing is, is that the slow pace of the story makes it seem longer than it really is but it isn't big thing.Verdict: Funny, dynamic and a whole lot of fun hope I can get an appointment. It makes you want to get a fresh cut.7/10 entertaining comedy sequel.

Twelve years have elapsed since we last saw Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, their colleagues and their customers cutting up in the ensemble "Barbershop" film franchise. If you remember all those years ago, Calvin Palmer, Jr., (Ice Cube of "Friday") committed a terrible mistake when he sold his late father's venerable barber shop in the original "Barbershop" (2002) to scheming loan shark Lester Wallace. After he realized the barbershop's legacy as a landmark in the south side Chicago community, Calvin changed his mind about his harebrained, get-rich-quick schemes and struggled desperately to get the barbershop back from Lester. Lester (Keith David) wanted to turn the place into a strip club. Happily, Calvin thwarted Lester. In "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" (2004), Calvin and his crew cautioned their elected Chicago municipal leaders about the dire effects that gentrification would cause if outside interests were allowed to renovate the south side neighborhood. Now, the long, overdue, second "Barbershop" sequel in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer franchise focuses on issues more relevant than those dealt with in its predecessors. This time, however, Calvin and his crew aren't tangling with either a gluttonous loan shark or a greedy politician. Instead, they have to confront trigger-happy gangs and the tragic violence that these pistol-packing hooligans perpetrate. Ultimately, "Best Man" director Malcolm D. Lee's "Barbershop: The Next Cut" surpasses its entertaining predecessors and displays greater concern for real-life issues rather than merely 'good times' comedy for the sake of 'good times' comedy.Naturally, the passage of twelve years has wrought changes not only in the cast, but also in the basic premise of the "Barbershop" franchise. Of course, Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve Jeffers, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jazsmin Lewis, and Troy Garity are back. Unfortunately, Troy appears briefly as his Jewish character Isaac Rosenberg, who clipped hair in the first two "Barbershop" epics after Calvin's African-American colleagues and customers accepted him. Basically, Calvin cuts Isaac's hair and then Isaac exits the action. Meantime, Sean Patrick Thomas as Jimmy Jones spends more time off screen than on screen since he has taken a position at City Hall. Comedian Anthony Anderson, who stole an ATM machine in the original "Barbershop," has reformed and runs a catering company. Michael Ealy as Ricky Nash, Leonard Earl Howze as Dinka, and DeRay Davis as the Hustle Guy have departed and been replaced. Calvin's son Jalen (Michael Rainey Jr.) has grown up and attends high school. Meanwhile, Eve has married Rashad (Common of "Run All Night"), and they have had a son who attends school with Jalen. Calvin and Rashad are tight friends.Although the first two "Barbershop" movies were testosterone laden tales, with female barber Terri (Eve Jeffers of "Blade II") injecting estrogen into the mix, "Barbershop 3" has altered its formula. Instead, director Malcolm D. Lee shows the male barbers sharing half of the building with female hair stylists. In the Kenya Burris & Traci Oliver screenplay, Angie (Regina Hall of "Scary Movie") is now Calvin's business partner, and she has her own employees. One of them is none other than Draya (music sensation Nicki Minaj of "The Other Woman") who wants to seduce Rashad. The rivalry between Eve and Draya over Rashad provides some of the film's funnier moments, and the steam culminates in screams as Eve catches them in the barber shop back room. A lesser subplot finds Jerrod (Lamorne Morris of "Black Rapunzel"), one of Calvin's new barbers unjustly accused of being gay, setting out to seduce Bree (Margot Bingham of "Burning Blue"), a frustrated hair stylist who cannot find a faithful man.The conflict erupts when Calvin catches Rashad's son Kenny (newcomer Diallo Thompson) swiping candy bars, and Rashad backs up Calvin. Earlier, the two kids had pled with their fathers to ante up twenty dollars each for them. Calvin turned Jalen down. Afterward, as Jalen and Kenny were walking to school, a rival, outside-of-the-neighborhood gang confronts them on the sidewalk. Before any bloodshed can occur, the local gang scares off the other gang, and then they slip both guys a twenty dollar bill. In school, Jalen gets into a fight. The school counselor advises Calvin and his wife Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis of "Grandma's House") about the incident. Jennifer discovers a gang bandana in Jalen's dresser. This sparks a generational gap clash between Calvin and Jalin. Calvin objects to Jalen's thuggish dreadlocks. Worse, Calvin believes Rashad's son Kenny has led Jalen astray with the gang bangers. Ironically, Jalen led Kenny astray. The night the two guys are to be initiated into the gang, Kenny refuses to accompany Jalen. Similarly, Draya schedules a hair appointment with one gang banger while another gang banger is in the shop getting his hair cut. Everybody scrambles to keep these two thugs from swapping lead with each other on the premises. Draya admits that she made a thoughtless mistake when she rescheduled the rival gang banger. This incident propels the grand finale, and Calvin and his crew decide to defuse the tension. The solution to gang violence that Calvin and company offers isn't 100 percent successful.When he isn't staging high school scuffles and back room shuffles, Lee uses the energetic camaraderie of his ensemble cast and their spicy chatter to amuse us. Still looking like Civil Rights activist Frederick Douglas, scene-stealer Cedric the Entertainer spouts some of the best, sidesplitting lines in this clever PG-13 rated comedy. He doesn't deliver lines as controversial as his Rosa Parks rant in the original "Barbershop," but he keeps things lively. One of the more amusing scenes has President Obama (Reggie Brown of "The Obama Effect") visiting the barber shop and sitting in Cedric's barber chair for a trim. This humorous scene won't make sense unless you've seen the original "Barbershop" where Cedric has a photo of Walter Payton getting a haircut from him. Like Obama, we cannot see each man's face to verify their identity. Altogether, "Barbershop: The Next Cut" provides the right blend of comedy and drama.

My review is on Barbershop: The Next Cut. This movie is sort of a reunion for the old cast of the original barbershop with the addition of a few new characters. I would give this movie an 8/10 because although the new Barbershop will never be better than the original the plot and story of the new one was still pretty good. I would recommend anyone who has never seen this movie before see it As Soon As Possible, some of the new additions to the cast was Tyga, a known rapper, and the beautiful Nicki Minaj who can be considered one of the hottest and most popular icons of the music industry right now. Overall this was a great movie which is why I will give it an 8/10