CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

JohnHowardReid For me, Shampoo was a film that could not make up its mind as to what it wanted to discuss or represent. Is it a supposedly a feel-good comedy or a comedy or drama that exposes many obvious temptations and bad practices in the hair-dressing industry ? And anyway, do we really need an expose of low morals in the barber and hair dressing industry? I'm surprised that barbers and hair dressers have not attacked this film more vigorously. Admittedly, there were a few protests, but they were rather weak.I will agree that the movie is well acted and the characters seem very much like real people. So much like real people in fact that the film carries an "R" certificate from the censor. No doubt many people will find the movie amusing. And some others no doubt will be outraged. But frankly I found it both obnoxious and boring. As entertainment, it is far too lifelike for comfort. If I were rating it for its entertainment quality, I would give it close to zero.

jadavix "Shampoo" has famed Hollywood ladies' man Warren Beatty playing a role he was apparently born to do: a libidinous male hairdresser who chose his profession solely to be around women.He tries to navigate various relationships on the eve of the election in '68 that saw Nixon become president of the United States.I guess this is supposed to provide a sharp contrast; a man-whore trying to get laid with various women while the country goes to hell. It doesn't work: there isn't enough of the political stuff for it to be anything more than a distraction from the hairdresser's tawdry affairs.It's also an attempt at a comedy, eg. one of the conquests is a wife of a well heeled republican who assumes his wife's hairdresser is gay. This should be funny, but strangely isn't.Goldie Hawn is a true star but isn't given enough to do. You see too much of her, really, to take her seriously as a wide-eyed innocent, who, like the republican, also believes Beatty isn't a cooze hound.The final revelation should be poignant but again, isn't. This movie misses all its marks, and is really only kept afloat by its stars.

Sros 007 This is a brilliant and underrated film. It's hard to imagine something like this being made today, filled with riotous laughs although concluding with a reflective and bleak ending. Warren Beatty ducks and weaves throughout the film, trying to juggle relationships with 3 or 4 different women but his hectic lifestyle eventually begins to unravel. It was written as a satire of 1960's sexual liberty and ultimately proves that free love is not 'free'. The film is set in 1968 on the day Richard Nixon was elected president and there is a clever use of Nixon's image in posters and TV screens behind Warren Beatty's character to symbolize someone whom everyone believes in and loves but turns out to be untrustworthy and unreliable. Although it was the 4th highest earner in the box office for the year 1975 it seems to have been largely forgotten since then.

ebiros2 I love this movie. It's so '70s, although the time line of the movie is set in 1968. The way people explored sexual relationship in those days is bit enviable if you watch this movie.Warren Beatty plays the role of a beautician who has affair with his clients. He goes to bed (and on the floor) with just about anyone he can get his hands around. He does it with both the mother and the daughter. Hands down he's my hero in this movie, but as in reality, such life has price to pay, and things back fires on George when his secret affairs slowly gets discovered by his would be sponsor, and his lovers.It's amazing that this movie is based on exploits of real life Hollywood hairdressers. But it sure made a good story.One of the best movie of its kind ever made, and is recommended for a watch.