"Barbershop: The Next Cut", the third movie in the Barbershop franchise, is a movie about a group of hairdressers who try to unite their community to help end the gang violence which has ravaged south side Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube) and his ensemble of hairdressers plead to shot callers from two rival gangs to call for a weekend-long ceasefire.
This second sequel of the Barbershop film series is littered with sarcasm.
It's filled with funny scenes like when Angie spilt the source of Eddie’s syphilis are short, precise and funny.
The “Next cut” is also full of dirty humor, but Eddie and Dante’s lines are a litany of raunchy, satirical material. Cedric and Deon Cole made sure that the audience’s libs had a tough time.
“Lupita? Man, don’t nobody want no bald head chick in real life. Even Kanye got rid of Amber for Kim’s sexy ass.” This line doesn’t seem that funny on paper, but it’s Deon who’s talking here. 
Dante sounds stupid, and you can be sure as hell that he’ll let fly some dumb funny sh*t every time he opens his mouth.
Like when Angie admits that good women were losing to “hoes”, Dante was given the license to cheer the ‘hoes’ on, “Go Hoes! Love me some hoes I can’t live without hoes. I got to have them.” His comments turned even sourer, “Hoes know what to do and when to do it!”
Eddie’s lines in "the Barbershop" usually lingered on the disconnect between past and present generations. Like when Angie tried to stomp down on men's chauvinistic tendencies, Eddie simply splashed her with his funny "truth";
“I can’t believe that you (Eddie) expect your visual fantasy to actually mop and iron for your old ass?”
Expectedly, Eddie is old school, the oldest in the barbershop and he hilariously defends his standpoint by saying, “You come to my house, you better know how to clean and iron. The only thing gonna be wrinkling around my house is my forehead when I say, ‘B*tch, what?’.”
Eddie and Dante provided the fewest sociopolitical/intellectual arguments throughout the barbershop movie.
But, they provided very humorous endpoints.
One good example was when Raja was trying to say that there hadn’t been a better time to be a black man in America.
Eddie’s response was simple but ruthless, “Unless you Bill Cosby.” Ha-ha! You can put your “LOLs” on that, unless you’re Bill Cosby, of course.
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Barack Obama! A divisive figure, especially when race is dragged into context; The Barbershop's producers didn’t want to miss out on such a sensitive topic.
And of course our man, Dante, was on hand to stitch humor to such a sensitive issue. After arguments for and against Obama’s, Bree posted her admiration of Barack and Michelle’s marriage but as usual the senior bachelor cut in and turned the conversation to a sour one,
“I hate to be the one to say this.” He cleared his throat before spewing his ruthless narrative, “But Barack’s definitely got b*tches.” And after One-stop, Raja and Eddie supported his theory, Dante put the icing on the cake, “I bet you Hillary’s (Clinton) got a side chick.”
When the barbershop hosted a community meeting to try to conjure a solution to the gang violence, Dante suggested R Kelly for a kids’ benefit concert.
Raja satirically replied that R Kelly could teach the kids ‘how to make home movies’, but Dante defended his choice… really dude?
Dante is plain dumb and coated with humor throughout the barbershop movie.
Just listen to him trying to argue with himself about whether Swizz Beatz is Swiss or not. As is expected from an elderly character, there’s also wisdom embedded in Eddie’s humor.
All in all, Eddie and Cole’s scripts in the “Barbershop: The Next Cut” offered balance to a movie filled with sociopolitical sermons. Their characters tried, with huge success, to refashion the notion that the barbershop is a sanctuary for men and the best place for them to let their mouths loose.
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