"Good Hair Movie" Review

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This is my honest review of the movie. Overall I enjoyed the experience.

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[taibeach]

They were blown away. I see it like this, the movie was target audience was mainstream. Chris Rock used the term "good hair" because the stereotype to the majority is if you have loose curls or , just recently, weave, expensive wigs, etc. Yea, he could of gone into showing that good hair is healthy hair but his focus was more on how much women, especailly black women spend on hair, whether natural or not. I just didn't expect too much a all. Just some good laughs.

[BlackOnyx77]

lol..ur right :)

[DLiteFullyNBliss]

If you look on youtube for the preview scenes of the movie you really have seen the whole movie. As a former relaxed chick I did not relate to the movie because I did not weave when I was relaxed. It was all about weave and a tiny bit about relaxers. I gave the movie about a 2. It is not worth the money.

[TayTubian]

yea i felt like there wasnt enough about natural hair

[TheSkyhazFallen]

chris rock threw black women under the bus. He did not try to show black women who are natural and love their hair that would have defeated the purpose of the movie, which was to clown the deep seated nerosis of blk women who perm and or hide their hair under weaves. Im not surprised at cris he made fun of some bro. who wore locs in one of hs shows. His comment that his ring didn't get stuck in the woman hair AFTER she permed it is a diss at our natural texture. A disgrace.

[Lakisha530]

Actually, before seeing this movie, I thought it would be bad because I was thinking, "What would a guy know about hair?" and since Chris Rock produced the documentary, I thought it would be mostly making fun of the women with natural hair and weave and stuff, but I heard great reviews, so I decided to go see it and I unexpectedly learned a lot, I liked it.

[josbo51715]

@NaturallySweetTea Congrats! Natural looks better.

[NaturallySweetTea]

@josbo51715 this may be true but this exaggeration helped me make my final decision in going natural. never will I go back to perms

[josbo51715]

Actually, they didn't put relaxers on the aluminum can. They put lye on the can in its original state, First, most relaxers don't use lye anymore. Secondly, lye is not the same in its original state as it is when it's watered down in relaxers. You know this because relaxers come in plastic containers. If lye can burn through a metal can, it damn sure would be able to burn through plastic. That part of the documentary was an exaggeration for dramatic effect.

[josbo51715]

The main thing that is missing from this movie is that he should have explored the history of good hair/bad hair. He should have explored why many black women are overly concerned with their hair. He said nothing about how black women have been called pickaninnies and nappy headed hoes. He never said anything about how the forces the white standard of beauty on us and makes people believe that kinky hair is unattractive. Chris Rock is a complete sell-out. I will not support his movies.

[Raindropsunshine]

werd.

[merriem24]

I give it a 2 only for the comedic aspects and the hair show. Everything else was a failure because the only thing he explored was the Indian hair.

[jgyamfi09]

You should read "Hair Story: Untangling the Roots to Black Hair in America" by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps. I felt the same way you did after seeing the movie. I believed that the movie could have explained a little more of the history of the good hair vs bad hair ideology. The book does a really great job in discussing the history of black hair from  to pre-slavery and pre-colonial times in Africa to the present. You should definently pick it up.