Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

TxMike At home on Netflix streaming movies.I searched out this movie upon hearing of Alan Rickman's recent death. He has always been one of my favorites and I had not seen this one yet.In typical British movie comedy style they take a silly premise, a British hair-dressing competition in the small town of Keighley, and build a story around it. Interestingly it also features two American actors the cast.Alan Rickman is Phil Allen who runs a hair-cutting shop with his son, Josh Hartnett as Brian Allen. It seems some years earlier, about 10 years, his wife, Natasha Richardson (also now deceased much too young) as Shelley Allen, left them to be with her lesbian girlfriend, Rachel Griffiths as Sandra, and they run a shop together. Their story is complicated by Shelly being treated for cancer.The issue comes up that for either group to have a chance in the competition for their small town to compete they must figure out a way to work together. Phil has not spoken to either of them since the split, he is still bitter but the son seems more willing to forgive and move on.Then pretty, 20-ish Rachael Leigh Cook (another of my personal favorites) shows up as Christina Robertson, daughter of one of the men competing in the event. She lives in the USA with her mother but Brian remembers her from when they were very young and it seems he had a secret hope she would someday return. From that stems the budding love.This is a fun movie which has some serious messages embedded, anyone who like the British style of humor should like this movie.

SnoopyStyle The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to the town of Keighley. Phil (Alan Rickman) and her son Brian (Josh Hartnett) run a barbershop. His ex-wife Shelly (Natasha Richardson) and her lesbian partner Sandra (Rachel Griffiths) run a beauty salon. Defending champion Raymond Robertson (Bill Nighy) dissuades Phil from competing. Brian is taken with Raymond's daughter Christina (Rachael Leigh Cook) and joins Shelly who secretly has terminal cancer. This is a British satire. Everybody is playing it up as wacky hairdressing. There are some great Brits but Rachael Leigh Cook and Josh Hartnett stick out as sore thumbs. They are obviously trying to get some buzz going with a couple of hot young Americans. The problem is that I just can't get over these two youngsters trying for a British accent. Sadly, it's unnecessarily distracting. Whereas the story itself is amusing at times. I didn't have any big laughs. It's more cute than funny.

manjodude Well, during the opening rolls of this movie, I wondered where would it go as it's mainly about hairdressing! But it took me by surprise. There are couple of fun moments however overall, the movie is kinda dry! I mean this movie could have gone below average if not for the presence of Alan Rickman and Bill Nighy(liked watching him in the Underworld movies). Just their acting lifts the movie from doldrums. Because, otherwise, I felt many of the scenes were handled too simple or plain. Nothing really engaging or memorable to hold your mind. And there was really no need for stars like Josh Hartnett or Rachael Leigh Cook. You could have put some newcomers in their place & the movie would have still run just fine. Talking about the hairdressing scenes if I must, they were handled quite well.Verdict: If you're a hairdresser(sorry I don't know what else to say), you may like this. Or else, just forget it.

patrick-flavin Ended up watching this last night when i couldn't sleep, usually films like this knock me out in seconds, but this time I finished it partly through the reasonable stab at a storyline and partly for local intrigue as i'm a yorkshireman.The plot line isn't really what drew me in as really it's more to do with the character interactions which unfortunately leads me to the only problem of the film which is two of the three American actors in the film, Josh Hartnett and Rachel Leigh Cook. RLC did her usual job of phoning it in and really didn't add anything to the film. JH isn't too bad apart from the accent he's attempting. For those of you not from Great Britain you may not realise that we have a very diverse collection of accents; you can even tell which town or village people are from. As such it almost hurts to hear my accent attempted by an American. I'm not having an anti-American jibe here, it's just that there are a lot of fine British actors who could have done a better job of it, especially as there was already a good collection of fine actors in this film already providing the star draw and presumably some of the funding pull. I really don't mind American actors is British films, just have them playing Americans and not British people.Rant over