Release Date:
02/06/2004
Just when you thought youd been granted a reprieve from the Hollywood franchise, along comes rapper-actor-barber Ice Cube to reopen shop, bringing Queen Latifah along for a special guest appearance. (Apparently, an Oscar nomination makes you too good to simply star in a sequel about chop shops.)
This time around, Cubes Calvin Palmer is fighting developers intent on taking over his block. Making things hairier is the new-age salon across the street, Nappy Cutz, run by a shady businessman in cahoots with the local alderman. Seeing Mr. Cube play the bespectacled straight man willing to sacrifice anything for his neighborhood is heartening, but we couldnt help hoping that crazy muthafucker named Ice Cube would emerge with a Glock and a Jheri curl. For Gods sake, he even hosts a barbecue without a single 40-ounce in sight! We could also have done without the numerous misplaced black-and-white flashbacks that provide historical perspective. But when Cedric the Entertainer dances in, hootin and hollerin in that incomprehensible brogue of his, youll forget why you ever left Supercuts in the first place.
This time around, Cubes Calvin Palmer is fighting developers intent on taking over his block. Making things hairier is the new-age salon across the street, Nappy Cutz, run by a shady businessman in cahoots with the local alderman. Seeing Mr. Cube play the bespectacled straight man willing to sacrifice anything for his neighborhood is heartening, but we couldnt help hoping that crazy muthafucker named Ice Cube would emerge with a Glock and a Jheri curl. For Gods sake, he even hosts a barbecue without a single 40-ounce in sight! We could also have done without the numerous misplaced black-and-white flashbacks that provide historical perspective. But when Cedric the Entertainer dances in, hootin and hollerin in that incomprehensible brogue of his, youll forget why you ever left Supercuts in the first place.