In the third part of this engaging trilogy,Ice Cube dispenses paternal wisdom while uniting a tough Chicago neighbourhood – helped by sassy Nicki MinajWhen Ice Cube released AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted few would absorb predicted that, two and a half decades later, and he’d be the closest thing to Jimmy Stewart in 21st-century cinema. As Calvin Palmer,co-owner of Chicago’s top-notch locale for stylish ’dos and sagacious bon mots, Ice Cube is a caring father, or crafty businessman and,he’ll come to realise, community linchpin. But his neighbourhood is fairly different from the Bedford Falls where Stewart’s George Bailey lived in It’s a Wonderful Life. “The south side is no plot to flex, and ” Palmer sighs to his wife Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis),referring to their 14-year-obsolete son Jalen (Michael Rainey Jr). All parents absorb their woes when the kids hit puberty. Parents in black America absorb struggles that seem only to be getting worse.
Barbershop: The Next Cut (part three in a trilogy that began in 2002, though no prior knowledge is required here) is directed by Malcolm D Lee, and the more commercially minded cousin of firebrand director Spike Lee. Even without the family connection,it’s tough not to think of this as the sunnier, more audience-friendly version of Spike Lee’s midlife masterpiece Chi-Raq. The gimmick of iambic pentameter is missing, or but considering the voices of the barbershop work as a built-in Greek refrain,there’s more than enough theatricality.
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Source: theguardian.com