Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I had no idea that this was a documentary and bought it since it said "hillarious" on the DVD cover and because Chris Rock usually makes good comedies. But this turned out to be a documentary about something I have absolutely no interest in.It was a struggle to sit through "Good Hair" and watch people talk about something with no meaning to me whatsoever. How can people be so self-centered and vain as to pay several thousands of dollars on hair, when there is so many wrong things in the world?"Good Hair" is like a Halloween ride of shallow caricatures of people who has no sense of reality.This is the worst $2 I have ever wasted on a DVD. It is rubbing from start to end. I managed to suffer through it to the end, and now that I have seen it, I will never make a return trip to watch this movie or any contents on the disc ever again.

tieman64 Starring, narrated and produced by Chris Rock, "Good Hair" is an interesting, sad, but ultimately thin documentary. Focussing on the hair of Africa-American women, the film examines the various social prejudices and inferiority complexes weighing down upon black women. These women, the film argues, face overwhelming pressure to conform to certain standards of "normalcy" and "beauty".Whilst "Good Hair" is interesting, it mostly tiptoes around issues of race, class and American history. The Black Pride movements of the 1960s and 70s, which tried to politicise black hair, is also skirted over. Instead, Rock interviews shop owners, factory owners, and those who profit off the sale of hair straightening products, relaxers and extensions. One interesting subplot journeys to India, where the hair of Indian women is harvested to make western weaves."Good Hair" is framed around the plight of Rock himself, whose young daughter feels pressured to use hair relaxers. Does he allow her to? If so, what are the social ramifications of this? Rock's daughter's journey echoes those of millions of African American women, all of whom endure gruelling, time-consuming and expensive hair regimes. But why?For Rock, "black hair" is routinely described via pejoratives (frizzy, coarse, natty etc), its "natural state" derided. This disdain, the film argues, is not only socially constructed, but a form of hairstyle "bigotry". "Good Hair", though, seems reluctant to fully acknowledge this; it's scared of admitting that its giant cast has internalised racism, subconsciously accepted our dominant society's racist views, stereotypes and biases, and are essentially attempting to minimise traditional African features. Ironically, "Good Hair" climaxes at the Atlanta's Bronner Brothers Hair Show, a hair styling concert put on by hair-care professionals. For these folk, the styling of African-American hair is merely a means of self-expression, a means of asserting one's identity. It is not, they believe, a tool for garnering validation or social acceptance.7/10 – Worth one viewing.

pedrodogg69 Im not a fan of documentaries so I was a little skeptic watching this movie, I am a fan of Chris Rock though. I had no idea the extent women and some men will go to meet their wants and after being in the dark for the past 5 years when it came to this subject because the wife refuses to discuss it. This movie answers the basic and simple stuff that you usually wonder when you see standing next you or walks past you. I enjoyed Chris's random jokes throughout the movie and the reactions of the people he was interviewing. The simplicity of the movie is what kept it interesting and entertaining, the lack very sensitive subjects like "slavery". Overall I was happy with this movie and I do recommend it to anyone who ponder's and only wants the answer's to this basic's.

Greg Yolen Apart from being raucously funny from first line to last, Rock's film is a document of worth – at least for an ignorant cracker like me. The well chosen and well-edited talking heads that make up the film debate forthrightly the merits of painful chemical hair relaxants (a vaunted tradition,) and human hair weaves (a staggeringly expensive habit,) and why such excesses are so deeply ingrained in African American culture. Is it just common sense to cover up nappy roots? Maybe such extreme measures are an outgrowth of a minority self-image crisis in a primarily Caucasian country? Or, maybe, in spite of the questionable causes of seeking out "good hair," it simply isn't worth f***ing with a woman who wants to look her best. (This is the side that Mister Ice-T takes, in his infinite, smutty wisdom…) In discussion, Rock handles his subject alternately with reverence and irreverence, and his film comes away with few concrete conclusions; though it works like Michael Moore's muckracking at its funniest, this isn't any sort of agitprop. The tone is playful and provocative, and though the topic runs a little low on steam around the hour mark, that only means that Rock has to fill the last portion of his film with the finals competition of the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, a display every bit as absurd as the climax of ZOOLANDER, but all the more hilarious for its, you know, actual, objective reality.READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW (AND MORE) AT STEVENSPIELBLOG.COM ...-Greg