Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Leofwine_draca BLACK SHAMPOO is a hilariously camp slice of blaxploitation cheese courtesy of noted B-movie director Greydon Clark. The story sees the wooden, Jim Kelly-lookalike lead running his hairdressers, where he finds plenty of time to romance his clientele in lots of softly-lit softcore sex scenes. The film features a whole slew of young and nubile actresses willing to strip off for their parts while John Daniels looks on impassively.Later, the film becomes a thriller of sorts, featuring a squad of threatening white gangsters with a rich line in cheesy dialogue who show up to threaten our hero and his business. Violence ensues, although not until the climax which pours on the ketchup quite liberally. As a film, BLACK SHAMPOO is very difficult to take seriously, although genre fans might get a laugh or two out of it.

Scott LeBrun I got a fair amount of entertainment out of this diverting if forgettable blaxploitation entry, but then I approached the whole thing looking at it as tongue in cheek. If one were to take it seriously, they might well find it in the "so bad it's good" category. A stiff, not too charming John Daniels is cast as Mr. Jonathan (whether that's his first or last name doesn't matter), owner / operator of a hair salon and also irresistible stud muffin to a variety of (mostly white) women. Trouble brews when Brenda (Tanya Boyd), his secretary, is threatened by her former employer, a mob boss named Mr. Wilson (Joseph Carlo). Wilson and his thugs mean business, and among their methods used are the trashing of the salon and the sodomizing of one of the employees. This dumb but fun movie comes complete with the expected funky music score with the ever present "wacka wacka" guitar, two flagrant gay stereotypes, and what will be the most appreciated by exploitation fans, an ample serving of female nudity. This certainly is a trashy outing, as the over sexed daughters of one customer unrelentingly come on to Mr. Jonathan, and it can be a very funny one as well. Just witness the awkwardly staged and ridiculous salon trashing episode. One has to see it to believe it. Hell, there's even a Western themed costume party in which one party goer is absurdly dressed in ballet gear. Things really pick up towards the end, where Mr. Jonathan is pursued by the sadistic mob flunkies armed with a miniature chainsaw. Now, we don't get to see too much detail when he carves them up, but this is an amusing bit of business nevertheless. In fact, the climax in general is pretty violent. With the level of exploitation on display, this should entertain some viewers, and it manages to generate some hearty laughs as well; the music score is at times utterly ridiculous. All in all, this probably won't become a classic or get too many retrospectives but it's a mild hoot for people with certain tastes. Seven out of 10.

edburtjr This movie could be shown on 'Cinemax Friday After Dark' and fit right in; a blackplotation movie with a soft-porn touch. The scene where Mr. Johnathan meets a client only to be seduced by client's very young daughters then mom shows up and demonstrates to her girls how to do it right is porn plot 101. The heroine in the movie spends the last half running around with a shirt with no pants or underwear so you see what you see. The movie is about a mob boss trying to get his girl back from this hairdresser dude who's like the John Holmes of hairdresser dude's or something. The thing is, he's horrible a actor. His extremely gay co-workers(not that there's anything wrong with that) are very entertaining and make the move. The mob guys are pretty bad too, but in a low-budget blackplotation you're not going to get Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro.

djjess23 Well I'm not saying it's one of my favorite movies but it's entertaining in a "that could never happen" kind of way. I think really bad acting can be funny, as is the case in this movie..also bad editing and cheesy "soft core"...material is humorous to me. I got a good laugh out of it! For instance, there's a scene in the beginning where Mr. Jonathat does a 'house call' and he gets 'attacked' by two white chicks, and the camera pans to some floating object in the pool! There was no reason for it, and I can't even tell what the object is to be honest! That type of really bad film production is entertaining somehow.