Trailer is deceiving

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2000)

I was disappointed in this movie. Based on the trailer, I expected it to be a sort of "Cocktail" for girls. I was hoping this movie would have a lot of the electric booze-pouring scenes from the trailer, but if you've seen the trailer, you've seen about all there is to see (except for a pretty good wet t-shirt sequence). Unfortunately, though, the movie spends a lot of time with Piper Perabo's character whining about her songwriting career and a totally unnecessary, by-the-numbers romance with the type of movie character I like to call an "Accent Boy" (i.e., apparently, his whole charm lies in his foreign accent, here, Australian; see also Ben Chaplin in "The Truth About Cats and Dogs"). I found the romance scenes boring, and the other bar girls' characters underdeveloped. I thought this movie would be about a bar (e.g. "Cheers"), but it's really just another insecure-girl-goes-to-NYC-to-make-it-big story. You've seen this story before, and if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the good stuff already.