Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Writers (WGA):

Mark Brown (characters)
Don D. Scott (written by)

Release Date:

6 February 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Back in business.

Plot:

Why not spend another day with the crew at Calvin's shop in the South Side of Chicago?

Plot Keywords:

Barbershop | Politics | Flashback Sequence | Fire Truck | Small Business

Awards:

2 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Ice Cube	...	Calvin
Cedric the Entertainer	...	Eddie
Sean Patrick Thomas	...	Jimmy
Eve	...	Terri
Troy Garity	...	Isaac
Michael Ealy	...	Ricky
Leonard Earl Howze	...	Dinka
Harry Lennix	...	Quentin Leroux
Robert Wisdom	...	Alderman Brown
Jazsmin Lewis	...	Jennifer
Carl Wright	...	Checkers Fred
DeRay Davis	...	Hustle Guy
Kenan Thompson	...	Kenard
Queen Latifah	...	Gina
Garcelle Beauvais	...	Loretta (as Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual material and brief drug references.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (flashback scenes) | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Norway:11 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Denmark:7 | Netherlands:AL | Sweden:Btl | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | France:U | New Zealand:M | Australia:M | Finland:K-7 | Germany:6 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39991) | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The football jersey that Ice Cube is wearing during the last part of the movie is a Gale Sayers #40 Chicago Bears throwback jersey made by Mitchell & Ness.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In one scene, Isaac pulls up the "Nappy Cutz" website on his Mac laptop to show the rest of the barbershop. However, the active application seen in the insert shots is plainly seen to be "DVD Player", not a web browser, revealing that the video clips supposed from the website are being run from a DVD disc or local file.

Quotes:

Eddie: [taking food orders from people in the shop] Okay... so that's three orders of "hell naw", two orders of "ask ya mama", and one order of "negro please".

Movie Connections:

References "The Jeffersons" (1975)

Soundtrack:

Get Up

Back Again for some more laughs on the South Side of Chicago!

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Starring: Ice Cube, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Sean Patrick Thomas and Queen Latifah

Genre: Comedy

Rated: PG-13

We continue the adventures with the barbers and Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube) on the South Side of Chicago. In this sequel to the 2002 hit Barbershop, Calvin's shop is threatened again but this time by a greedy developer who is opening a mega-franchise barbershop right across the street from Calvin's shop. The whole gang from the first movie is back including Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Terri (Eve), Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas), Ricky (Michael Ealy) and Isacc (Troy Garity). Also in this movie we have a new character named Gina (Queen Latifah) who is a stylist at a beauty shop next door. As Calvin does what he can to counter this threat, life goes on in the barbershop, with more of the same tart dialog and life complications in various hilarious ways as in the original. I missed Anthony Anderson and Lahmard Tate in this sequel because I thought they were hilarious in the first one but this sequel was still funny and besides at this time when this movie was filming, Anthony Anderson was busy doing Agent Cody Banks 2, Scary Movie 3, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and his TV-series, All About the Andersons. Just another day on the South Side of Chicago.