Shampoo vs. Black Shampoo

What a surprise, another movie redone with the word black in front of it.

Here is the premise of both Shampoo and Black Shampoo: A male hair dresser is extremely overbooked by rich white lady clients because he not only does hair but also bones pretty much all the ladies. In S the hair dresser wants to open his own hair salon and tries to get a loan from the husband of a lady he's doing it with, but in the process he also does it with the husband's mistress. In BS the hair dresser's receptionist gets into some trouble with her old pimp and the hair dresser and receptionist work together in an action-packed chase. One of these is way more exciting than the other. Did I mention that you don't really get to see any of the doing it in S and the chase in BS involves a CHAIN SAW. And a way better chain saw fight than SOME OTHER MOVIE.

Here is a venn diagram to help explain this movie:

If you notice the cross section of this diagram brings up some pretty horrible things that these two movies have in common. How could you have a movie from the 70s about male hair dressers without homophobia? A blaxploitation movie without racism? Going to beauty school just to sleep with women after they've been under the hair dryer for hours so their judgment is lowered isn't misogyny? Both of these movies have lots of problems.

Shampoo: 1 out of 5
Black Shampoo: 3 out of 5