this movie was terrible

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2001)

Coyote ugly is a recent installment of a series of movies by Jerry Bruckheimer that lacks originality and, worse yet, is just plain predictable. In short, it's a bad version of Flashdance.
Anyone who has any sense of plot sees from the start of the movie that the star--Violet--is going to make it to big time after undergoing a growth process where she learns to kick her stage fright and be the star she was allegedly born to be.
This movie is just bad. For one thing, Bruckheimer, who has made a few decent movies in his career, would have you think that a star is born when Violet karyokes to Blondie's "One Way or Another" song. Bruckheimer wants you to think that Violet's moment is special, once in a lifetime--watching a girl katyoke to a song should be retired to the dustbins of overplayed top 40 hits.
Violet's boyfiend, played by Adam Garcia, is a bizarre character. His presence in the movie is awkward. Perhaps he was aiming too low in appearing in this movie. Judged by his natural feel for acting, Garcia has a promising future and, as such, should avoid duds like Coyote Ugly.
Why John Goodman? What possessed him to be in this movie? Goodman really was the shining star in this movie, nothwithstanding a respectable performance by Garcia. One would almost assume that Bruckheimer used Goodman to lend some credibility to this wannabe Flashdance disaster.
Do NOT see Coyote Ugly. It's dull, predictable, and downright stupid.