Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I had no idea that this was a documentary and bought it since it said "hillarious" on the DVD cover and because Chris Rock usually makes good comedies. But this turned out to be a documentary about something I have absolutely no interest in.It was a struggle to sit through "Good Hair" and watch people talk about something with no meaning to me whatsoever. How can people be so self-centered and vain as to pay several thousands of dollars on hair, when there is so many wrong things in the world?"Good Hair" is like a Halloween ride of shallow caricatures of people who has no sense of reality.This is the worst $2 I have ever wasted on a DVD. It is rubbing from start to end. I managed to suffer through it to the end, and now that I have seen it, I will never make a return trip to watch this movie or any contents on the disc ever again.

Prismark10 Good Hair is a breezy, light hearted film regarding hair and the female black community presented by Chris Rock.Apparently Rock was inspired to make the film when his daughter asked him about his good hair which means hair that is not natural to black African American community. Its straightened using relaxant which is in fact dangerous chemicals that can cause burns if its left in the hair for too long. Then there are weaves, which is a wig sewn on to the hair.This is a multi billion dollar industry. A lot of the money does not end up in the black community even though some people pay outlandish prices for a good weave.Along the way Rock also talks to celebrities about having good hair including Maya Angelou, Ice T, Nia Long, Al Sharpton, Raven. I never really knew about relaxant until I saw Spike Lee's X when Denzel Washington was using it in the film and the movie never really gets to grip why men straighten their hair. Frankly to show that they have hair like white people.Its something Rock could had asked Reverend Sharpton who famously in the 1980s was caught by the press having his hair relaxed by expensive barbers and Sharpton instead of being embarrassed just told the press, come and see how a real man gets his hair done!The documentary is entertaining and diverting but lacked depth. Rock is genial and engaging.

angelareya This comment is in response to the film "Good Hair." I felt that the film was made to poke fun at Black women who go to harsh lengths to straighten their hair and to get hair extensions. The film makes references to slavery and let you know how many Black Americans were brainwashed for centuries into believing that straighter hair is better. I'd like to respond to this by saying that even though there are some Black women who chemically straighten their hair a lot and use lots of hair extensions, White women have been chemically treating their hair for decades as well to get curly hairstyles. If anyone ever watches old Hollywood films and TV shows, many of the White women's hairstyles are mostly curled in all of those films and shows, and in later years, you would see their hair wavy or bouncy. Most White women you see today on soap operas always have their hair either curly or wavy or bouncy. None of those hairstyles are natural because most White women hair is just plain straight and limp. Some have naturally curly hair but most of them do not. These are all chemically treated hair styles. Many also wear hair extensions to make their thin hair look fuller. They also go to extreme measures to get breast implants, lip implants, cheekbone lifts, butt lifts and dark tans. I haven't heard any one really talk on this much in the media as they talk about the Black women's hair issues. These issues are just as serious or more serious because when you spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery to make yourself look like someone else or when you risk getting skin cancer just to get a dark tan, that is not cool. Even though this is true, I bet you would never see a White male comedian make a film on these issues, the way Chris Rock made a film on the Black hair issue. However those are also important issues that should be discussed. Maybe there should be a film in where both African American and White American girls can talk about how they feel about themselves and the images they see on screen, and the filmmaker should ask what would make them want to change. Maybe there will be more positive images in the media for all kinds of young girls and women to look up to.

mozli Saw this a little over a week ago and it is still kicking around in my consciousness. Chris Rock has made a very strong critique about how black people live. Quite a bit of it is discomforting, dealing with the lengths black folk we'll go to achieve a certain beauty standard. The entire segment on chemical relaxers should make anyone think long and hard as to what that product does to the body and brain cells of young children. Chris Rock the documentarian is not the peer of Chris Rock the comedian and that comes through often in the bluntness and heavy-handedness of his presentation of the subject matter. The negative reviews I've encountered seem to try to deflect potential audiences from the truth that Mr. Rock is getting at. Some white people are going to be uncomfortable with this many will likely be bored. They may likely say that its a black folk issue but the more perceptive ones will realize that western culture beauty bias is at the root of this situation. The whole segment on hair weaving and extension which points at Central Asia and the Far East as gaining a powerful hold over black female hair culture is arresting. Interspersed throughout the film are Q&A's with Rock's Hollywood colleagues. Some blithely give answers that border on profound self-contempt and others get the point of question's secret agenda and attempt to deflect its full intent. Even Rev.Al Sharpton does this. The film comes to a close after the big Bonner Bros. expo. It acknowledges that because of black people's(particularly the female)traditional position in wester culture that that it has been a massive strain unlike their white female counterparts to feel good and beautiful in their own skin and hair. When that occurs so often those negative feelings spread because not only does misery loves company, misery will create company. I think Chris answered his daughter's question but it will be sometime before she's ready to accept it fully.