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MAR25025
(2005), PG-13 [PG-13*]
Analysis Date
CAP Final Score
CAP Influence Density
MinMax
March 29, 2005
55 out of 100
1.77
-100

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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY:
(This section may be and sometimes is somewhat subjective.)

If Scriptural references appear, the full text appears at the end of the Summary / Commentary.



(2005), PG-13 [PG-13*] -- Loss of one more point would have made it another R-13.


Cast/Crew Details Courtesy Internet Movie Database
Production (US): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mandeville Films, Cube Vision
Distribution (US): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Distribution Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation
Director(s): Bille Woodruff
Producer(s): Matt Alvarez, Otis Best, Elizabeth Cantillon, Shakim Compere, Ice Cube, David Hoberman, Queen Latifah, Todd Lieberman, Louise Rosner, Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr
Story: Elizabeth Hunter
Screenplay: Kate Lanier, Norman Vance Jr.
Cinematography/Camera: Theo van de Sande
Music: Christopher Young
Film Editing: Michael Jablow
Casting: Joe Adams, Kim Coleman, Victoria Thomas
Production Design: Jon Gary Steele
Art Direction: Kevin Kavanaugh
Viewed At: Driftwood Theater 6


Again I apologize for being late with an analysis (viewed March 29 and it is now April 4). But until our thousands of daily users (23,400 yesterday, usually between three and five thousand per day) donate regularly such delays and even worse are inevitable. If you use our service, please help us make this a fulltime ministry with your regular, generous tax-deductible donations. I could even get many analyses to you before films open in theaters if this can become a fulltime ministry. Not only that, the massive research data we have accumulated could continue. And the planting of Seeds could accelerate. And His Word would be seen more thoroughly. And ...

Beauty Shop is one more PG-13 film which narrowly avoided the R-13 heap with a final score of 55. Loss of one more point would have made it another R-13.

Styled after Barbershop (2002) and even co-produced by the star of Barbershop, Ice Cube, Beauty Shop rides the cosmetology waves in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a story of hair stylist Gina Norris (Queen Latifa) wanting to stop working for someone else and break out on her own to open a comfortable and friendly beauty shop ... with only $30,000.

Just for the fun of it, a comparative scoring data display for Barbershop (2002) and Beauty Shop is provided below.



Austrian transplant Jorge Christophe (Kevin Bacon), who was really George Christy from America, was the oppressive and under-handed owner of the Atlanta salon where Gina Norris (Queen Latifa) worked as a top notch stylist. Jorge made work unbearable. Jorge was the type of boss who would expect performance from his employees beyond the performance expected of them without informing his employees of his expectations and would scold them for failing to meet his expectations. He was not a good boss. To be a good leader one must first know how and when to be a good follower. Indeed, Jesus told us that to be first we must be last: to be greatest we must be the least. [Mark 9:35, Luke 22:27] As in Jesus' example in Luke 22:27, which is greater? The served or the server? Sort of takes both, doesn't it? The served cannot be served without the server.

Gina struck out on her own and opened a modest salon from a run-down shop in a nearby location but in the heart of the economically depressed part of town. Gina amassed quite a crew, a few of which included Miss Josephine (Alfre Woodard); Chanel (Golden Brooks); Ida (Sherri Shepherd). Also in the foreground was Gina's teen sister-in-law who provided the obligatory tantrum-like presence who seemed to always have trouble in choices of boyfriends. Lynn (Alicia Silverstone), the lone white stylist working for Gina, played the country bumpkin learning "the ropes" of the black world.

Part of Gina's troubles with the new salon were a great number of out-of-code electrical problems and damaged electrical systems. To the rescue was a conveniently located electrician named Joe (Djimon Hounsou). Not only did Joe become part of the upgrade of Gina's shop, he became part of widowed Gina's romantic interests. And Joe was a good piano player.

That Joe was a piano player leads perfectly in to introducing the starlet who made maybe the biggest emotional splash in the show, Gina's daughter Vanessa (Paige Hurd). Vanessa was an aspiring piano player. When she found out that Joe was also a piano player, Vanessa latched on to that opportunity to improve her talents. And that she did. Vanessa beamed during a recital at the Southern School for the Performing Arts. And so did Gina as she watched her daughter wow the audience.

Males in the cast included pint-sized Willie (Little JJ) with a big imagination who thought of himself as a ladies' man. Not a gift to girls but a ladies' man ... ladies twice his age. Also providing some male presence was James (Bruce Wilson), a male stylist hired literally off the streets.

Again I must minimize the amount of effort put into this Summary/Commentary section to reduce costs to increase the chances of keep the whole ministry going. So that is all for the story summary.

Beauty Shop could hae been fun, but it had teeth. Teeth that could bite to the moral bone.

Those teeth nipped away all of the starting 100 points flesh in each of the Impudence/Hate (I) and Sexual Immorality (S) investigation areas making the film easily comparable to many R-rated films in each of those investigation areas. The film earned a score equivalent to most PG films in Wanton Violence/Crime and in Drugs/Alcohol (D). Offense to God (O) content earned the only PG-13 equivalent score. Murder/Suicide easily earned a score equivalent to G-rated movies since the film was free of any murders and suicides.

Some of the more abrasive elements in Beauty Shop included the 75 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary in the 101-minute show, averaging about one every 1.3 minutes. If one wonders why so many of our early teens choose expletives with such disdain for clean language and yet feel that have done no wrong, now you know. [Col. 3:8]

While there was no nudity or intercourse which have been sleazing up into PG-13 from R, there were so many uses of "lesser" issues of assault (see the CAP Rule of 1000 on sexual purity such as innuendo, gestures, comments, dress and detailed discussions about sexual issues that the magnitude of influence is the same. [1Ths. 4:1-5]

Please consider closely the listing in the Findings/Scoring section then decide for yourself whether to allow your young teens to see Beauty Shop.


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SCRIPTURAL APPLICATION(S)
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CHAPTER/VERSE

  • Mark 9:35 And he [Jesus] sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
  • Luke 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
  • Col. 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  • 1Ths. 4:1-5 Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his [or her] own body [which includes control of drives, touching, seeking, lusting (even after images), promiscuity, etc.] in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; [Be master of your body and urges, not a slave to them.]

    ***Selected Scriptures of Armour against the influence of the entertainment industry***
  • Ps. 12:8 The wicked freely strut about [e.g., create progressively vile/offensive entertainment with impunity and no consequences to younger and younger audiences every year] when what is vile is honored among men [when enough people continue to defend it, embrace it, pay for it, enjoy it, want it, submit to it].
  • Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man [by his influence] spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • 1 Cor. 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
  • Rom. 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
  • Jude 1:4 For there are certain men* crept in unawares [secretly slipped in among you], who were before of old ordained to this condemnation [whose condemnation was written about long ago], ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [a license for immorality], and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. [*men: anthropos {anth'-ro-pos}, generic, a human being, whether male or female]
  • Matt. 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto [or for] one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto [or for] me.
  • Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ["Offend": skandalizo - to entice to sin; to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey; to cause to fall away. "Little ones": mikros - little;, small of age; younger which can include at-home teens].
  • Ps. 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me [let no sin rule over me].
  • John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
  • 1 Thess. 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. ["Evil" includes all things that are sinful.]


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    As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie.
  • FINDINGS / SCORING:
    (The heart of the CAP Analysis Model)

    Beauty Shop (2005) CAP Thermometers

    Wanton Violence/Crime (W)
  • threat with intimidation
  • assault of a teen girl
  • bribery of a State official to effect extortion
  • criminal vandalism
  • assault for revenge

    Impudence/Hate (I)
  • 75 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
  • adolescent arrogance at mother
  • massive tattoos
  • abusive employer

    Sexual Immorality (S)
  • numerous sexual innuendo of varying degrees of vulgarity, including by an adolescent
  • prostitutes
  • detailed discussion of sex toys
  • vulgar background song
  • excessive cleavage, twice
  • dressing to maximize the female form and/or skin exposure, repeatedly
  • below navel skin, repeatedly
  • homosexual humor
  • sex talk of varying degrees of vulgarity
  • vulgar gesture
  • vulgar comment
  • camera angle for force viewer on private parts
  • rude staring by adolescent
  • homosexual implication
  • sexually rude behavior with a video camera
  • tattoo for tease
  • vulgar dance
  • inappropriate touch
  • enticing with body

    Drugs/Alcohol (D):
  • booze
  • drinking
  • using booze to celebrate
  • references to illegal drugs, repeatedly

    Offense to God (O)
  • six uses of God's name in vain without the four letter expletive

    Murder/Suicide (M)
  • none noted





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    There are some in the entertainment industry who maintain that 1) violent programming is harmless because no studies exist that prove a connection between violent entertainment and aggressive behavior in children, and 2) young people know that television, movies, and video games are simply fantasy. Unfortunately, they are wrong on both accounts." And "Viewing violence may lead to real life violence." I applaud these associations for fortifying 1 Cor. 15:33. Read the rest of the story. From our more than eight years of study, I contend that other aberrant behaviors, attitudes, and expressions can be inserted in place of "violence" in that statement. Our Director - Child Psychology Support, a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist concurs. For example, "Viewing arrogance against fair authority may lead to your kids defying you in real life." Or "Viewing sex may lead to sex in real life." Likewise and especially with impudence, hate and foul language. I further contend that any positive behavior can be inserted in place of "violence" with the same chance or likelihood of being a behavior template for the observer; of being incorporated into the behavior mechanics and/or coping skills of the observer. In choosing your entertainment, please consider carefully the "rest of the story" and our findings.



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