Change Your Image
Paul Lewis
Reviews
Blow Dry (2001)
funny and amusing
Excellent performances from a cast of top actors who extract a lot of humour and pathos from a simple script about a hairdressing competition. Warren Clarke as the local mayor who gets more and more into the spirit of the event and Bill Nighy as the bad guy with numerous tricks up his sleeve are exceptionally funny, and Alan Rickman (looking more and more like a relation of the British comedian Frankie Howerd as he gets older) doesn't let us down as the morose local ex-champion hairdresser who is pressured to make the inevitable comeback. The story isn't too original but the characters and their situations produced plenty of laughs, particularly in the heat of the competition. I laughed too- in the wrong way- at Josh Hartnett's Yorkshire accent. I understand that a US star would be a selling point in the USA but why not do us Brits the courtesy of getting the accent right?