Coyote Ugly (2000)

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This 'small-town girl in the big city' film is really lame. Coyote Ugly attempts several things (humour, drama, romance, sexiness, feminism) and fails on all counts. The acting is awful; the characters are weak and incomplete. The film can't decide what it is or what pace to go at.

Released in 2000, "Coyote Ugly" is a drama starring Piper Perabo as a singer/composer who leaves her home in nearby New Jersey with her dad (John Goodman) to try her hand at the music business in the big city. For money, she gets a gig at a nightclub hotspot where the female workers dance on top of the bar for entertainment, amongst other things, like dumping ice on customers now and then, spraying others with the soda gun and occasionally pouring liquor on the bar and setting it aflame (Why Sure!). Maria Bello plays the owner of the bar while Adam Garcia plays the girl's potential beau.Perabo plays a thoroughly winsome heroine and the movie's fun with a kinetic soundtrack (with, for example, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" playing twice). After the first act though the movie never really takes off and the story becomes predictably bland, albeit still entertaining.While the movie wasn't a big hit, it was moderately successful at the box office and has become a semi-iconic film. A mere 2 years after its release I was in Las Vegas and there was an establishment called Coyote Ugly with an alluring woman dancing out front on a raised platform to draw in customers. That was my first exposure to "Coyote Ugly" and I asked my brother-in-law about it; to which he informed me it was a movie. One of the problems with the film is that the girl dancing out front of that Vegas nightclub was far more fetching than any of the actresses dancing in the movie. The women simply aren't curvy enough to engender much fascination. Perabo is arguably the best, followed by blond cutie Izabella Miko, but Miko and the rest (e.g. Bridget Moynahan and Melanie Lynskey) seriously looked like they needed to gain about 15 lbs. at least. But, I suppose if you like women with the shape of 12 year-old boys you might appreciate this element more than me.Another problem is the emphasis on the nightclub lifestyle and the soused antics thereof. If bars are your thang then you'll probably favor this movie more than I did. Thankfully, the protagonists eschew the drunkard lifestyle and the movie's to be commended for this (the filmmakers obviously wanted to "have their cake and eat it too").But those are minor quibbles. The biggest problem with "Coyote Ugly," beyond the story being predictable, is that there's no meat on the bones, so to speak. Take the subplot with the boyfriend and his big revelation scene; it was underwhelming and weakly executed, to say the least. Moreover, I just saw the movie last night and I can't even remember if the protagonist "makes it" in the music business at the end. That's how forgettable the film is.A couple of years after the flick was released my wife asked a 9 year-old girl what her favorite movie was and she enthusiastically said "Coyote Ugly!" That tells you something about the film's depth.The picture runs 100 minutes and was shot in South Amboy, New Jersey; Atlantic Beach, Long Island; New York City; and Tower Theatre & Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. DIRECTOR: David McNally. WRITER: Gina Wendkos.GRADE: C+

This is a fun, sexy, trashy and sweet movie. I've watched it a couple times now because the dancing on the bar scenes are all kinds of awesome -although as a former bartender I also know how hard the girls are working and this just makes me feel exhausted. I remember those endless busy nights, pasting on a flirty smile and going home with the sunrise all too well.Anyways, I enjoyed Violet (Piper Perabo) here, especially the relationship she has with her dad (John Goodman) The romance angle is kinda meh as is the whole (inherited) struggle to become a songwriter with stage fright in NY. Still it's one of those guilty pleasure movies people don't admit to watching and enjoying. 12.30.13

piper perabo is one hot babe or a slut that is the line you will utter when you see any movie of her coyote ugly 2000 displays her few talents .it serves a decent time pass nothing else as i said above coyote ugly was a bar & this movie was based on that so they have tried their best but fails at many levels,let me just say this there is no movie in the world that is almost perfect the plot is about a struggling singer Violet goes to NYC to look for a job and lands at a coolest club called coyote ugly owned by LIL(maria bellow) there she has to prove herself for the job.this film is mostly shot in the club & one of the things i love to see in any film is the production quality the makers did there best here but again no focus on the script makes it rather dull.now there are some fun scenes like bottle juggling,singing & spilling wine all over the place.if it wasn't for the good cast & sexy scenes this film would be an epic fail.i liked maria bellow she reminds me of Sharon stone.anyway the DVD comes with deleted scenes & trailers & stuff but there was a lot of missing scenes including the famous Piper perabo sex scene.my rating is 5/10 watch coyote ugly only for piper pirabo, Bridget moynahan & time pass.