Barbershop 2: Back in Business [Blu-ray]

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Overview

Kevin Rodney Sullivan steps in to direct the urban comedy sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. The whole gang -- Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Jimmy James (Sean Patrick Thomas), Terri (Eve), Isaac (Troy Garity), Ricky (Michael Ealy), and Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) -- are still there in the same old barbershop in the south side of Chicago. Owner Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube) tries to keep his family business alive in order to pass it on to his own son one day. However, the beloved neighborhood barber shop is threatened by a hair salon franchise called Nappy Cuts. This time around, the old friends are joined by Gina (Queen Latifah) from the beauty shop next door.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/01/2019
UPC:	0760137136484
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Mvd Marquee Collect
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:46:00
Sales rank:	24,847

Special Features

Cast video commentary featuring Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity and Jazsmin Lewis; Audio commentary with director Kevin Sullivan and producers Bob Teitel and George Tillman Jr.; 6 deleted scenes; Outtakes; Extended music video: "Not Today" - Mary J. Blige featuring Eve; Music Video: "I Can't Wait" Sleepy Brown featuing OutKast; Behind the scenes photo gallery; Barbershop 2: Back in Business original theatrical trailer; Barbershop original theatrical trailer; Beauty Shop teaser trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ice Cube	Calvin Palmer
Cedric the Entertainer	Eddie
Sean Patrick Thomas	Jimmy James
Eve	Terri Jones
Troy Garity	Isaac Rosenberg
Michael Ealy	Ricky Nash
Leonard Earl Howze	Dinka
Queen Latifah	Gina
Harry Lennix	Quentin Leroux,Actor
Robert Wisdom	Alderman Brown
Jazsmin Lewis	Jennifer
Carl Wright	Checkers Fred,Joyce,Det. Williams
DeRay Davis	Hustle Guy
Kenan Thompson	Kenard,Calvin's Customer
Sam Sanders	Mr. Johnson
Jackie Taylor	Miss Emma,`I' Customer
Julanne Chidi Hill	Shawna
Linara Washington	Keisha
Javon Jackson	Calvin Palmer Sr.
Parvesh Cheena	Samir
Norm Van Lier	Customer Sam
Chris Tinsey	Customer Artis
Brian Weddington	Customer Benny
Jay Deep	Customer Horace
Tamara Anderson	Customer Jiwanda
Leon S. Rogers Jr.	Customer Kwame
James David Shanks	Customer Lamar
Allen Edge	Customer Lloyd
David Newman	Customer Muhammad
Mark Simmons	Customer Rodney
Rome Anthony	Customer Tyrone
Maximino Arciniega Jr.	Customer
Llou Johnson	Customer,News Anchor
Pierre S. Reed	Isaac's Customer
Barrie D. Buckner Jr.	Isaac's Customer
Devan Jones	Isaac's Customer
Rich Pierrelouis	Rickey's Customer
Marvin Nelson	Terri's Customer
David Pompeii	Terri's Customer
Ron OJ Parson	Mr. Stewart
Phillip Edward VanLear	Mr. Diggs
Paul Christopher Hobbs	Hank
Chavez Ravine	Tanya
E.J. Murray	Maggie
Bradley Armacost	City Council President
Tiffany L. Addison	Attractive Female
Mike McNamara	Yuppie
Clifton Williams	Black Panther
Antonio Polk	Black Panther
Lauren Palmer	Gina's Niece,Actor
China L. Colston	Five-Kid Woman
Avant	Dexter
Byron Glenn Willis	Johnny
T'Shaun Laren	Nappy Cuts Video Male
Tai'Isha David	Nappy Cuts Video Female
Cory S. Stewart	Guy
Olumiji Olawumi	Guy
Susan Yoo	Japanese Woman
Joe Yau	Japanese Man
Cynthia Maddox	Angry Woman
Deon Cole	Customer Dante
Vanessa Fraction	Monisha
Janina Gavankar	Field Reporter
DeAnna N.J. Brooks	Pauline
Charla Agers	Gina's Customer
Talia Toms	Talia
Corey L. Hemingway Sr.	Customer Corey
Nicole L. Sullivan	Double Dutch Girl
Mario K.P. Wilson	Calvin Sr.'s Customer
Garcelle Beauvais	Loretta
Troy Garrity	Actor
Richard Gibbs	Composer
Wu-Tang Clan	Composer

Technical Credits

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Norman Vance Jr.

Don D. Scott

Kevin Rodney Sullivan	Director,Screenwriter
Norman Vance Jr.	Screenwriter
Don D. Scott	Screenwriter
Ice Cube	Executive Producer
Mark Brown	Executive Producer
Matt Alvarez	Executive Producer
Guy Clayton	Special Effects
Felicia Fasano	Casting
Alex Gartner	Producer
Sharon King	Casting
Rick LeFevour	Stunts
Robert Teitel	Producer
George Tillman Jr.	Producer
Mary Vernieu	Casting
David Obermeyer	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Barbershop 2: Back in Business does everything a good sequel should -- it brings back the characters you want to see, recreates the atmosphere, and tries not to do too much. The first Barbershop was a pleasure because it featured an occasionally volatile cross-section of Chicago African-Americans co-existing in a warm communal setting, but also because it refused to let these characters off the hook, calling them out on behavior that might go unchecked in a lesser film. Playing that devil's advocate voice again is Cedric the Entertainer as Eddie, the salty-haired tonsorial curmudgeon who instigates such racially self-deprecating smack talk as calling the Washington, D.C., sniper the "Jackie Robinson of crime." It echoes a similar passage in the first film in which Eddie denounces Rosa Parks as merely tired, rather than a civil rights pioneer. Unfortunately, the barbershop chatter is less incisive and less frequent than in the first film, and this tepidness carries over to the character arcs as well. Everybody's back from the first film, but they've got less to do and less to distinguish themselves as individuals. Of the new additions to the cast, Queen Latifah is memorable enough to have inspired the distaff third installment of the series, Beauty Shop (2005). Kenan Thompson is also memorable, but for the wrong reasons -- as Calvin's annoying nephew who uses nepotism to score a chair, Thompson sticks out like a sore thumb. Barbershop 2 is a little too comfortable to be as truthful as the first, but as sequels go, it holds up just fine.