Unfortunately, the Internet Movie Database only allows 1,000 words, which is not nearly enough to sufficiently communicate how horrible this movie is.

Rating: 2/10 (8 September 2000)

The drawback of watching the huge amount of movies that I watch is that you find yourself watching the same previews over and over again. I saw the preview for Coyote Ugly so many times that I was sick and tired of the movie before it was even released. I was unable to decipher any kind of plot from the preview, and the reason is simple. If the producers had allowed the preview to reveal the extensively recycled and re-done and re-made and used up plot, no one would have bothered to watch the movie. From a business point of view, that's very understandable, and I respect the decision not to reveal how shallow this movie is too early on. However, after seeing the entire film, I have realized that Coyote Ugly is packed full of every cliche ever created by every unoriginal and boring film ever made in cinematic history.
(spoilers) Young kid decides to leave home to pursue wild dreams in the big city. Encounters difficulties, gets robbed, decides to go home, father encourages her to keep trying, success is inevitably and laughably attained. I accurately predicted at least 80% of everything that happened in this film. Did anyone not know that there would be a robbery at her new apartment in New York? Was anyone surprised that she would have some sort of superficial problem getting her music heard? Is it that hard to predict she would succeed at the end?
Okay, I'll admit that if she failed, the movie probably would never have been made (what a relief that would have been). You can't put a Fight Club ending or an Arlington Road ending on a movie like this. But look at the way the entire movie panned out. Violet was completely isolated from reality during the entire film. Think about the logic here. Violet goes to New York to become a star, but obviously has trouble getting a record executive to listen to her music. She goes home one day to find her apartment robbed. This is the pathetic attempt to make it seem like the real world, but even if it did do that, this is where it stopped. For the rest of the film, everything worked out perfectly. The first guy she meets becomes her wonderful new boyfriend. The first group of girls she overhears in a diner are talking about the lucrative jobs they have, and how one is leaving and there will soon be a difficult effort to replace her. This very same bar happens to be the hottest bar in town, and when Violet inquires about the opening, she is hired within minutes. You gotta be kidding me.
Besides all that, everything that happened in the plot is just recycled garbage that has been seen dozens of times before. Violet finds a cute new boyfriend. They get in the usual fight somewhere in the middle of the film, and when she tries to call thinking she wants to apologize or something, she hangs up a split second before he grabs up his receiver, anxiously saying "Hello? Hello?" to the usual dialtone. She goes to his house to make things right, and just as she shows up, he's got some girl walking into his apartment (THAT was the most predictable element of all). But wait! He's not sleeping with her, he's showing her the apartment to see if she might want to move in! He's a sweetheart after all! How about Violet's job? Obviously some problem has to come up (the suddenly lonely parent, as always, winding up in the hospital), and she has to get fired at least once. When she does, she decides to get a job at a quiet little restaurant (which, for some reason, doesn't seem to have electricity), but eventually goes back to her old job. The bar scenes were both laughable and ridiculously exaggerated. No bar in the world looks like that, and even if one did, there would not be scantily clad female bartenders dancing on the bar every few minutes, and even if there were, there would be about 50 bouncers, not just one. You would think a policy or two would change when the airheaded blonde Cammie was pulled into the crowd and fondled by a bunch of drunks. I guess nothing came of that because she didn't seem upset about it at all. Every bar scene in this film was the result not of skillful filmmaking, but of audience manipulation.
What a pathetic waste of time. Everything in this movie has been done before, and it has never been done worse than it was done here. Even though New York City is portrayed terribly, at least they thought to throw in an acute bit of stage fright for Violet so she would have a problem that coincides slightly with reality, even though this was also ridiculously unoriginal (ever see Runaway Bride? EXACTLY the same thing). Coyote Ugly is an awful movie. It follows a formula that is more easily decipherable than the script, and it is the kind of film that will probably be hugely entertaining to you if you have never seen a movie. If you don't like being jerked around at the movie theater, avoid this garbage.