Isobelk This is a great movie depicting life in the late 60s early 70s. It's brilliant. Times are changing. Women are having sex. George loves women. There's legal birth control and all VD has a cure. Nixon and Agnew get re elected and we all know Spiro go s to jail and Tricky Dick narrowly escapes the same fate. But none of the characters in the movie knows that.

brefane A sex comedy that is neither funny nor sexy. Even though there are potentially funny situations, the characters are shallow and obvious, something the other characters don't seem to have realized. The film is shallow and obvious as well with pretensions of social criticism;setting it in 1968 on the eve of Nixon's election says nothing, and would the film be any different save for hairstyles and clothing if it were set during the Carter administration? The film is tedious as the characters go through so much just to get laid and when they do, the sex is awkward, hurried, unsatisfactory and often interrupted which may be the point. George as played by Beatty doesn't really seem that interested in sex or hair and the attempts at seriousness at the film's end and the suggestion that George is a tragic character are utter nonsense. Beatty runs around in a distracted dither as he did in Bugsy, Heaven Can Wait, Mickey One, Reds... Jack Warden, Christie, Fisher, Grant and Hawn are good, but the dialog and direction are without distinction.

lasttimeisaw It is a 1975 film directed by Hal Ashy (BEING THERE 1979, 8/10), stars Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, and his then-lover Julie Christie, with an Oscar winning performance by Lee Grant and an Oscar-nominated turn by the perpetual character actor Jack Warden, sounds appealing to any cinephile, right? Yet SHAMPOO, not unlike its characters' utterly outmoded hairstyle, is a mediocre downer, which makes Grant's Oscar triumph looks like a fishy consolation prize for the sake of her career achievements. It is 1968, in the eve of the President Election, George (Beatty), a Beverly Hill hairstylist (by the way, no one dares to advise him to get his own flurry hairdo a neat trim), an inveterate womanizer and sex-addict, gyrates around his girlfriend Jill (Hawn) and the cougar patron Felicia (Grant), with other casual dalliances not included. Dreaming of open his own salon but rejected for a bank loan, George is introduced by Felicia to her wealthy hubby Lester (Warden), who might be interested in the investment, meanwhile, he encounters Jacky, his old flame, and discovers she is Lester's mistress. Inevitably Jacky and George rekindles their romance, and everyone involved needs an egress out of the sticky situation. Eventually, the obvious loser is George himself, but as we can envision, 30 minutes after the ending, he is back in his habitual mode to seduce another predator in the jungle of voluptuous creatures, it is hard to deny a self-revealing aspect of George's character is based on Beatty himself (oo who is the co-writer here).More like a personal project for Beatty and Christie, they are not at all in their top form, it it their pillow talk which leaves audience in a state of dumbness and aloofness. Goldie Hawn actually pulls off a renascent awareness of her own worth through maturing from a wide-eyed ingénue to a woman knows what she wants and feels pity on George's addiction. Lee Grant is ferociously acrid as the lust-driven middle-aged wife encircled with desperate loneliness, an Oscar-win is too much for the role nevertheless; Jack Warden is the token of a winner in a male-chauvinistic world, which proffers a rare showcase for this perpetually sidelined character thespian, in the end, he even dissipates some of the antipathy, which presumably aims towards Lester's shallowness and the stink of money, with an inherent affinity borders on visceral humility and drool naiveté, his adventure in a hippie party draws the best eye-sensational revelry in the entire film. But after all, SHAMPOO doesn't live up to my expectation and the ghastly dreadful coiffure, hope no retro vogue will tread back into that era, ever.

SmileysWorld I did not enjoy this film.Perhaps it's because I have grown tired of sex comedies.Perhaps it's the fact that I've never really liked Warren Beatty as an actor.I'm not sure but of all the films I have viewed from the AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs list (and I still have a few to go to date),this one is the least funny,so far.I didn't laugh at one single moment.Obviously,more than a few did and that's why it made the list.To each his own.Other than the fact that there are a few wonderful looking ladies in the cast,I can't say that I will ever revisit this film again.It's as i keep saying,it all depends on what makes one laugh.If this is your type of humor,go for it and enjoy,but I'm moving on and not looking back.