Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

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:

Anachronisms: A flashback to 1969 shows Eddie meeting Loretta on Chicago's Red Line train. The Red Line did not begin operating until 1994.

Quotes:

[Jimmy comes in and tells Isaac to trim him up immediately and complains that he can't keep a schedule]
Calvin Palmer: Get 'im...
Isaac Rosenberg: SIT YO' ASS DOWN!

Movie Connections:

References "The Jeffersons" (1975)

Soundtrack:

Private Party

"Back in Business!"

"Barbershop 2: Back in Business" is a better-made, if not necessarily better film than the original. I loved the first "Barbershop" movie that came out in 2002. The sequel is a lot more in depth with its characters and we learn a little more about each one and how they have improved since the first film. If "Back in Business" has any flaws, it's that there is not enough action inside the barbershop, where most of the action took place in the first film. There is a little more drama with "Back in Business" that never slows the film down; a little drama never hurt anyone, did it? Either way, I did thoroughly enjoy myself watching "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" and I rated it a 9/10.