Genre: Comedy, Culture Clash
Plot: Leaving the Chicago crew behind, Gina Norris (Queen Latifah) is a long way from the Barbershop – she now lives in Atlanta and is making a name for herself and her cutting-edge hairstyles at a posh Southern salon. But when her flamboyant, egotistical boss, Jorge (Kevin Bacon), takes it one criticism too far, she storms out of his salon to open a shop of her own, taking the shampoo girl (Alicia Silverstone) and a few key clients (Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari) with her.Gina risks it all to buy a rundown beauty shop and gets to work making it her own, inheriting an opinionated group of headstrong stylists (including Alfre Woodard, Golden Brooks, and Sherri Shepherd), a colorful clientele, and a sexy upstairs electrician (Djimon Hounsou). It’s a rocky road to fulfilling her dreams – and Jorge does his best to ruin her plans – but you can’t keep a good woman down…and you can’t keep a shopful of outrageous women from speaking their minds! Join Gina and her stylists for a raucous good time at the Beauty
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 “Beauty Shop” succeeds in getting us to like, and even care for its characters. For a light, flighty comedy, this is a job well done.  --Steven Snyder
While this Barbershop spin-off is rather clunky and unfunny, its cast has enough personality to make it surprisingly entertaining.  --Rich Cline
Although the Queen and her entourage invigorate an unimaginative screenplay, Beauty Shop is better saved for DVD and a bad hair day.  --Tyler Hanley
Combine ingredients, mix well, and what you have is an extremely generic and lackluster big-screen sitcom-slash-romance. --James Verniere
"Beauty Shop," then, is a bunch of black chicks sitting around talking. The one thing that can be said in its favor is that it does not evoke the cliche of movie producers, scripters and directors, "The story of a woman who experiences an epiphany which changes her life forever." C-
With an excellent ensemble headed by Queen Latifah, the warm, funny, empowering (and estrogen-drenched) "Beauty Shop" is a cut above what you'd expect from the spinoff of a sequel. --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
You may not find a whole lot that's fresh here, but Gina and her colleagues make for a modestly enjoyable experience. Besides, you won't have to fret about how much to tip. C+--Robert Denerstein
It's amusing, as such diversions can be. But if "Beauty Shop" is to be welcomed as a franchise, it will need funnier characters speaking more incisively. --Ed Blank
"Beauty Shop" doesn't shout at us, not even when catastrophe strikes; it's more about choosing a goal, being confident you can get there, and having some fun along the way.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
This is a first: A spin-off being superior to the franchise from whence it spun.  --Fred Topel (MovieWeb)
The story is for the most part useless and thin. The pilot of a failed sitcom. The sisterhood is powerful type of thing. If you’re a guy you won’t like it too much, and if you’re not black you’ll like it even less. This has a very limited audience and ifyou’re not part of the target you might as well save your money.  --Eric Lurio
Fans of Barbershop will probably find Beauty Shop a bit inferior, and it is, but there's fun to be had here. Beauty Shop is light, breezy comedy at its best, a good flick to catch quickly on one of these few rainy days before spring. --Jack Moore (The Movie Insider)
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