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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Good HairThe problem with having an ostentation hairdo is that birds always want to nest in it.However, some of the women in this documentary wouldn't mind the feathered flare.After his daughter asks him why she doesn't have "good hair", comedian Chris Rock decides to explore the hardships of having African-American hair, specifically for the female, which is tantamount to torture. From expensive weaves to painful relaxers that chemically straighten hair for that Caucasian look, Rock talks to barbers, salon owners and noted celebrities (Eve, Ice-T, Maya Angelou, Al Sharpton, Nia Long, Raven-Symoné, Salt-n-Pepa) about their trials and tribulations in achieving "good hair".By reinforcing that one's power comes from within not from up top, Rock successfully dissects the culturally complexities of "good hair" with comedic precision that's also highly educational to curious white viewers.Nevertheless, no matter what type of hair you're born with, just pray it's not red.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

What this documentary depicts is a phenomena occurring in any American Country from Canada to Argentina, wherever black people live.This madness about spending thousands of dollars, before getting good education, or something to eat, and in addition be exposed to harmful chemicals is common everywhere.So I was expecting not just the fun facts, but a deeper psycho-social analysis (again mixed with Chris' jokes) of Why, How, and what should we do?It misses deeper analysis of health issues, psychological side effects, environmental effects, etc. It failed to expose the inferiority complex regarding the beauty of thicker hair; and how it should be molded and folded into "Good Hair".

So I saw the trailer for Good Hair a while back and really did want to see it. The trailer was funny and this looked like a good documentary, I love documentaries that take a good look at our society and how we behave towards something. But since Good Hair had a limited release, I never got to see the movie in the theater. But my boyfriend and I rented Good Hair a couple days ago and watched it of course, it honestly disappointed me. While I thought the documentary was such a good idea, I hated that it was done by Chris Rock. I don't mind Chris Rock, but he has got to stop with the white jokes, seriously. It seemed like this movie was almost set to just hate white people the way he was talking, not all white people have perfect hair as he was describing. He has this scene at the end where he's talking to black men in a barber shop and saying how they cannot touch their girlfriend's weave, then they would rather "make love" to a white woman because you can touch whatever and it lost me there, it was so uncomfortable.Chris Rock and Jeff Stilson have made a short story/documentary into a full-length film in this witty documentary with serious undertones. Rock says he was inspired to make the film when his young daughter asked him, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" and he and Stilson examine black America's obsession with their hair as they visit the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, an annual trade show for the African-American hair care industry which includes fierce competitions among stylists from around the country and demonstrations of new hair products and techniques. Along the way, Rock also talks to a number of African-American luminaries about their hair issues (including Maya Angelou, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Nia Long, Raven Symone, Ice-T, and Paul Mooney), researches the dangers of many common hair-straightening treatments, reveals the surprising expense of regular hair "relaxing" and weaves, and ponders what the pursuit of straight hair says about African-American cultural identity.I really wanted to love this movie, I thought the idea was a really good one as we are a society obsessed with looks and always trying to be perfect. I just wish that they wouldn't joke so much about race, if it's one or two jokes, I can take it, but when it's almost the entire feature, it looses me. Also I think the way it was put together wasn't exactly correct either, we're going back and forth between stories that I lost interest in. I cannot recommend this documentary honestly, I know that I should lighten up, this is Chris Rock, but I consider myself very liberal. This was just too much and was handled very inappropriately.1/10

Apart from being raucously funny from first line to last, Rock's film is a document of worth – at least for an ignorant cracker like me. The well chosen and well-edited talking heads that make up the film debate forthrightly the merits of painful chemical hair relaxants (a vaunted tradition,) and human hair weaves (a staggeringly expensive habit,) and why such excesses are so deeply ingrained in African American culture. Is it just common sense to cover up nappy roots? Maybe such extreme measures are an outgrowth of a minority self-image crisis in a primarily Caucasian country? Or, maybe, in spite of the questionable causes of seeking out "good hair," it simply isn't worth f***ing with a woman who wants to look her best. (This is the side that Mister Ice-T takes, in his infinite, smutty wisdom…) In discussion, Rock handles his subject alternately with reverence and irreverence, and his film comes away with few concrete conclusions; though it works like Michael Moore's muckracking at its funniest, this isn't any sort of agitprop. The tone is playful and provocative, and though the topic runs a little low on steam around the hour mark, that only means that Rock has to fill the last portion of his film with the finals competition of the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, a display every bit as absurd as the climax of ZOOLANDER, but all the more hilarious for its, you know, actual, objective reality.READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW (AND MORE) AT STEVENSPIELBLOG.COM ...-Greg