Confidential to A.O. Scott.
In your review of Beauty Shop, you call out Alicia Silverstone for "speaking in one of the least convincing backwoods accents ever heard on screen." Applying the same logic, there's just no way you can get away with using "sassy"--let me say that again, "sassy!"--in this lede:
Not so much a sequel as an old-fashioned sitcom spinoff squeezed onto the big screen, "Beauty Shop" extends the popular "Barbershop" franchise to Atlanta and provides a sassy feminine counterpart to its cozy men's-club vibe.
Trippingly off the tongue it does not come.
