Product: Coyote Ugly [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Lil Looks Like Your New Girl Can't Hack It
Movie Summary: Violet Sanford leaves her small New Jersey home as well as her father and moves to the Big Apple. She wants to be a song writer you see and New York is the place to be. She soon finds out that the music game is ever so much more difficult than she dreamed. In order to make ends meet, she wins a job as a performing waitress at the very hip club Coyote Ugly. There the nights are hot and the bar maids even hotter. Violet meets a nice guy who tries to help he overcome the stage fright that is preventing her from showcasing her songs on stage. As she falls into a grove at Coyote Ugly is starts to look like she will never make it as a song writer.My Opinion: I loved the bar scenes. That's where the 4 stars come from. I like the scenes with the Coyotes in them. They were the most interesting and the most fun. The rest of the story was cute, but what I really wanted was more of the Coyote Ugly. That was what was fun. I didn't really need another "little girl makes it in the big city" story. I did enjoy Kevin O'Donnell and his character. It was nice to see a good guy getting the girl for a change. I'm sick of the jerks that are mean to the girls and the girls who want them more because of it. John Goodman was great as the father struggling to be on his own. Maria Bello has been one of my favorites for a long time and she doesn't let us down here. I only wish she could have been the main character and we could have also seen into the lives of each of the Coyotes. Even though I wished for more of the bar, I was thoroughly entertained and enjoyed every minute of the movie. I ate up the deleted scenes that rounded out the story and filled in the holes. I will definitely be looking for a good deal on a used copy of this DVD to add to my collection.DVD Quality: Video: Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1 the best! Video quality is great! Sound: DD5.1 with great music Extras: There are plenty of extras. The deleted scenes show why we shouldn't have been surprised when Gloria got married. They also show people taunting Violet with predictions that she will fail. They help fill out the plot. Also included are the trailers, documentaries, and music video. Menus: The menus are ok. Nothing to write home about.What You Should Do: Rent it unless you can get a good deal on a previously viewed copy. It's a guilty pleasure type movie, but the price for a new copy is too high.Related Movies To Check Out: Road House, Flashdance, Cocktail, Doc Hollywood