Vidal Sassoon: The Movie. (2010)

The man who liberated women from helmet head, this documentary chronicles Vidal Sassoon's meteoric rise from Jewish orphan to hairstylist to media whore. In the late seventies/early eighties, his commercials were always playing, promising that "if you don't look good, we don't look good". Well, there was a seven or eight year stretch where they must not have looked good. This film isn't a fraction as entertaining as one of those thirty second spots. In fact, this is painfully, dreadfully boring. They talk about the swinging sixties for about ten minutes, you'd think there'd be some juicy stories about the people, parties, etc. No, instead we get to hear his half-assed philosophy on life, which mostly involves Pilates. There are some amusing clips of talk show appearances from the seventies, one in which he puts his legs behind his head and displays his physical agility (and moose knuckle) while he grunts "I'm fifty-five years old!" But we truly learn nothing about the man...perhaps he's just not that interesting.