Absolutely Fantastic

A lot of fun.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Warren Beatty played a Beverly Hills hairdresser who enjoys cutting his female clients hair and sleeping with them on the side. He has a girlfriend, Jill, played by Goldie Hawn. He seduces unhappily married wives like Lee Grant and even girlfriends like Julie Christie. The film is about sexual mores of the late sixties. Los Angeles, California seemed to be the place for free love, money and wealth. There is a massive amount of excess in money and sexuality in this film. The movie is not for the prudish. The film is set around the election of 1968 and filmed in 1974. There are great performances by a stellar supporting cast like Lee Grant, Jack Warden, George Furth, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and a young Carrie Fisher. It's worth a viewing or too.

"Shampoo" has famed Hollywood ladies' man Warren Beatty playing a role he was apparently born to do: a libidinous male hairdresser who chose his profession solely to be around women.He tries to navigate various relationships on the eve of the election in '68 that saw Nixon become president of the United States.I guess this is supposed to provide a sharp contrast; a man-whore trying to get laid with various women while the country goes to hell. It doesn't work: there isn't enough of the political stuff for it to be anything more than a distraction from the hairdresser's tawdry affairs.It's also an attempt at a comedy, eg. one of the conquests is a wife of a well heeled republican who assumes his wife's hairdresser is gay. This should be funny, but strangely isn't.Goldie Hawn is a true star but isn't given enough to do. You see too much of her, really, to take her seriously as a wide-eyed innocent, who, like the republican, also believes Beatty isn't a cooze hound.The final revelation should be poignant but again, isn't. This movie misses all its marks, and is really only kept afloat by its stars.

A sex comedy that is neither funny nor sexy. Even though there are potentially funny situations, the characters are shallow and obvious, something the other characters don't seem to have realized. The film is shallow and obvious as well with pretensions of social criticism;setting it in 1968 on the eve of Nixon's election says nothing, and would the film be any different save for hairstyles and clothing if it were set during the Carter administration? The film is tedious as the characters go through so much just to get laid and when they do, the sex is awkward, hurried, unsatisfactory and often interrupted which may be the point. George as played by Beatty doesn't really seem that interested in sex or hair and the attempts at seriousness at the film's end and the suggestion that George is a tragic character are utter nonsense. Beatty runs around in a distracted dither as he did in Bugsy, Heaven Can Wait, Mickey One, Reds... Jack Warden, Christie, Fisher, Grant and Hawn are good, but the dialog and direction are without distinction.

I love this movie. It's so '70s, although the time line of the movie is set in 1968. The way people explored sexual relationship in those days is bit enviable if you watch this movie.Warren Beatty plays the role of a beautician who has affair with his clients. He goes to bed (and on the floor) with just about anyone he can get his hands around. He does it with both the mother and the daughter. Hands down he's my hero in this movie, but as in reality, such life has price to pay, and things back fires on George when his secret affairs slowly gets discovered by his would be sponsor, and his lovers.It's amazing that this movie is based on exploits of real life Hollywood hairdressers. But it sure made a good story.One of the best movie of its kind ever made, and is recommended for a watch.