Review of Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) by Jon C — 14 Apr 2016

For 2004:

A clever-enough follow-up to the smash-hit comedy.

This time the barbershop in Chicago faces tough competition from a new rival barbershop opening across the street and theirs is in danger of being shut down forever to make way for new land developments.

Calvin and the others struggle to cope with their own dilemmas from love to finances to making the community about the people, not profit.

Progress is a stepping stone but it has the potential to drive people away, this family in this barbershop has become something much more than cutting people's hair.

Eddie also gets more of a backstory this time with the race riots of the 60's setting as a backdrop for how he became the way he did.

We also have loveable newcomers like Queen Latifah and Kenan Thompson.

The humor keeps on coming and the warm, fuzzy moments shine ever so brightly.