Product Details

• Actors: Vivica A. Fox, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Kym Whitley, Monica Calhoun, Taral Hicks
• Directors: Mark Brown
• Writers: Mark Brown, Shelley Garrett
• Producers: Breht Gardner, Brent Odom, Carl Craig, David Odom, Lita Richardson
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000R5OFMW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #49,819 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The Salon stars Vivica A. Fox (Jenny) as the inheritor of a neighborhood beauty salon. Jenny is being forced to sell her shop to the Department of Water and Power (DWP) due to eminent domain. She has not told the other tenants in the salon and is trying to build a case to save the shop. The DWP is represented by a hot shot attorney (Darrin Dewitt Henson) who takes a liking to her and a romance begins. This is a fresh look on the inside of a salon where anything can happen.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Barbershop 3"?, November 14, 2007

By	Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

**1/2

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that "The Salon" is really just "Barbershop" on estrogen. Like that earlier prototype, "The Salon" - which takes place in a Baltimore beauty parlor run by the beautiful Vivica A. Fox - is essentially a freeform series of conversations held together by the flimsiest of plot devices (in this one, an unfeeling bureaucracy wants to tear down the shop to make way for a parking lot). Unfortunately, "The Salon" is a pretty wan imitation of the original, lacking the stinging wit and biting social commentary that made "Barbershop" such a crossover success in its time.

While there is a certain liveliness to the verbal jousting and a notable energy in most of the performances, the comic banter often comes across as catty and mean-spirited rather than funny and insightful. The screenplay by Mark Brown (adapted from the stage play by Shelley Garrett) works overtime trying to be clever and smart about race relations, sexual issues, and life in the African American community, but it really isn't telling us anything we haven't heard countless times before in films on those same topics. Moreover, the characters themselves often verge on the stereotypical (with the prancing gay hair stylist as probably the most egregious and offensive example). And to top it all off, the movie is saddled with an ending that is, perhaps, the worst case of a deus ex machina in any film in recent memory.

There are indeed some genuinely touching scenes embedded in all the brazen one-liners and zingers, and there are a few laugh-out-loud moments when the sassiness and sarcasm manage to hit the comic bull`s-eye at which the writer is aiming. But more often than not, the humor misses its mark and falls harmlessly onto the hair-covered floor.

The actors give their all to the material and it really isn't their fault that the movie itself fails to catch fire. Even brief appearances by Garrett Morris and Terence Howard aren`t enough to lift it out of the doldrums.

With "The Salon," the ladies finally get the chance to have their say, but they're going to have to do a whole lot better than a second-rate, distaff copy of "Barbershop" if they ever hope to get their message across.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars this movie was good. , August 20, 2007

By	K. Witcher "rap music fan" (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I thought the movie was pretty good. Vivica Fox's hair looked good. I've never seen her with a short haircut before. Taral Hicks was looking good. I'm glad to see she's still getting acting roles because she had disappeared for awhile after Belly movie. Monica Calhoun was looking good. I didn't like the relationship between her and Terrence Howard and the only weak thing about this movie was that Terrence wasn't shown more in the movie and him and Monica should've had more dialouge together. In one scene, he took Monica's car from her when she went to pick him up at the gas station where he worked at because he was mad at her for being late to come get him for his lunch break. I was upset that Monica wasn't given a chance to break up with Terrence and to get her car back from Terrence. R&B singer Gerald Levert had a small part in the movie. He was a customer at the salon. The scene he was in, 3 young black girls came into the shop hollering and asking him could they get his autograph. He asked them what their names were and 2 of the girls said Porscha and Mercedes. He said why do black people always name their kids after cars they can't afford? LOL. Kim Whitley was also in the movie as a hairstylist. Her and Gerald went to the same high school Shaker in Cleveland, Ohio. Kim is silly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I can't even say covert agenda- too poorly written, October 17, 2007

By	C. Paige (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This film watches as though the writers got together one day and numerically listed all the stereotypes we've ever heard about black communities and then gave each one a five-minute format. Everyone of these characters needs Jesus. Hater Movie!!