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Coyote Ugly
Movie Stats & Links |
Starring: |
Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Melanie
Lynskey, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan |
MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
Released By: |
Touchstone
Pictures
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Kiddie Movie: |
It's really a chick flick disguised as a dude
flick. |
Date Movie: |
Not too young - they won't get it.
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Gratuitous Sex: |
No.
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Gratuitous
Violence: |
Some bar fighting. |
Action: |
Not really. |
Laughs: |
A line here and there.
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Memorable
Scene: |
Anytime the girls are dancing on the bar. |
Memorable
Quote: |
Nothing really.
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Directed By: |
David McNally |
Produced By: |
Jerry Bruckheimer, Chad Oman
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Coyote Ugly
A Movie Review |
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I was hoodwinked. I was tricked. I was boondoggled. I
went to see "Coyote Ugly." Much like probably most every
other guy who saw the trailer for "Coyote Ugly," seeing hot
babes dancing on a bar, spraying water, dressed pretty
skimpily, well, my first reaction in seeing this was "I have
got to see this movie." It didnt really matter what
the plot was, it didnt really matter about character
development, it didnt really matter about anything
I just wanted to see hot babes dancing on a bar,
hopefully getting their t-shirts wet, and maybe even getting
naked. Then I saw the rating PG-13, and I got a
little worried. But that didnt stop me from eagerly
wanting to see the movie visions of babes on a bar
still danced in my head. Then I saw the movie and felt
betrayed, suckered, and hoodwinked "Coyote Ugly" is a
chick flick with hot babes dancing on a bar for good
measure.
Hot babes aside, the story kinda goes like this: Violet
(Piper Perabo) moves from her small New Jersey town to New
York City searching for her dream as a songwriter. Her
dreams get squashed when she finds out the meaning of
"Unsolicited Material," namely, you cant send music to
a record company without their asking. Her dreams shattered,
her apartment vandalized, Violet is almost ready to give up
except she has found a dude-friend, Kevin (Adam Garcia), who
gives her a little bit of hope, and she overhears these hot
babes in a diner talking about how much money they made and
how one of them was leaving work at the bar. With
opportunity knocking, Violet heads to Coyote Ugly the
bar, and looks for a job. Yes, she gets hired, yes, she has
no idea what she is getting into, and yes, the love story
develops. Its also from her working at the bar that
she begins to get over her stage fright, and just when her
luck gets more crappy because she gets fired because of her
idiot boyfriend, you cant expect this movie to end
this way and know that in the end shell get the dude
and get to sing her song.
Yes, the story wrap-up was kind of quick, but its
your basic girl-with-a-dream and a love story mixed in
hence, chick flick. Did the trailer say that? You
know what, maybe it did all I still remember from the
trailer was hot babes dancing on a bar. The movie had that,
too, but really its not a movie about hot babes, just
one hot babe and her dream.
Is the movie bad no, not really. Is the movie
calculated yea, you pretty much could figure out
everything that was going to happen. Should you see it
well, its geared more for the upper-teen
audience, so if your girlfriend wants to see a movie,
suggest this one. She might squawk, saying all you want to
see are hot babes dancing on a bar, and well, this will be
true. But shell probably get a feel good movie and get
past the scenes that tricked this dude into expecting more
(or maybe less if youre talking about clothing).
All in all Im giving "Coyote Ugly" 3 stars out of
5. It holds its own as a story, John Goodman as
Violets dad is pretty funny, especially when he finds
out where she works, and even though not the movie I
expected (I expected a story revolving around the 5
bartenders, their individual lives outside the bar,
intertwined with their working in the bar) it wasnt
that bad.
Thats it for this one, Im The Dude on the
Right!! L8R!!! |