It's Flashdance meets Cocktail

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2000)

Seems Jerry Bruckheimer is running out of ideas these days. He's now recycling material from nearly twenty years ago. With Coyote Ugly, we have the story of a young New Jersey girl moving from NJ to the big bad city of Manhattan. There, she learns that life in the city is tough and the only way to write music is up on the top of your roof. Violet, played by Piper Perabo, does have some moments where she has some true defining moments as a character, but those are few and far between. She finds the titular bar and promptly begins work there with the other barmaids. They jump, they dance, the light the place on fire all to the tune of heavy pounding rock music. The one bright spot about this movie is John Goodman. As Violet's father, he brings some humor and life into an otherwise dull story that has all the plot twists of an unwound pretzel. And as for Tyra Banks, I don't know why she was cast. Her character vanishes before the first act is even over. Lets just hope Bruckheimer doesn't mix any other films together.