Product: Coyote Ugly [VHS]
Rating: 3.0
Not a great movie, but definitely fun to watch.
Coyote Ugly is a weak movie in some ways. The plot is very simple and also very unoriginal. Violet, a young woman, leaves home, without the approval of her overprotective, widowed father, and goes to New York to pursue a songwriting career and try to make it on her own. To make ends meet in the meantime, she takes a job as a barmaid. She meets a guy who becomes her love interest. This whole plot could be summed in 30 minutes or less. The thing that stretches out the movie and makes it fun to watch is the music (an awesome soundtrack) and the wild antics that go on at the bar where Violet works.Fact is, Coyote Ugly isn't your average, ordinary, everyday bar. The barmaids dance on the bar, pour drinks on themselves and each other, spray customers with water, and outrageously flirt with the male customers. This is what makes the movie.I must say that much of the movie is unbelievable. By some miracle, Violet manages to make it as a songwriter after singing one song in one club. Also by some miracle, her father (charmingly played by John Goodman, I must add) does a total turnaround from sternly disapproving of her working in a bar to dancing on the bar himself. Violet's problem with extreme stage fright is also unconvincing. However, Coyote Ugly is worth watching for the great music and the dancing and other wild things that go in the bar.