Product: Coyote Ugly [VHS]
Rating: 3.0
Decent Movie if you don't think too hard
The previews of Coyote Ugly looked pretty good, so I went out and rented the DVD. The movie turned out to be pretty good, as long as you let your brain take a rest.The storyline of the movie seems pretty basic: young girl goes to New York to make it big as a songwriter, and ends up working in a bar to make ends meet. The bar isn't just any bar though, it's Coyote Ugly, where the barmaids dance on top of the bar and hose down anyone asking for water. Eventually she finds herself a sexy Australian boyfriend and gets the chance to perform her song.The movie is actually pretty entertaining, Piper Perabo makes an excellent Violet, and John Goodman is good as her father. Coyote Ugly makes me wish there were bars where I lived like that; I'd have a reason to go to one if there were. The soundtrack has a lot of upbeat music, which helps the movie keep its upbeat feel.I found two disappointments in the movie, the first being that Piper Perabo doesn't sing in the movie; Leanne Rhimes does all the singing. I was hoping Perabo would sing, as there don't seem to be a lot of actors that sing and act anymore.The second disappointment was the lack of character development in everyone but Violet and her father. They're fairly well developed, you know about how Violet grew up, and how he father acts towards her, but the other barmaids, the boyfriend, and the owner of the bar seem one dimensional. You know that the barmaid that's leaving (Tyra Banks) is going to law school, one barmaid has problems with anger management, and the other one is a blond tease. That's about it though, and the owner isn't any better. She only keeps things in the bar that she drinks, and if you have the DVD and watch the deleted scenes, you find out how she got the bar. The boyfriend (Adam Garcia) is probably the third best developed character in the movie, but they don't really develop him until near the end.All in all, Coyote Ugly is a good movie to watch, as long as you're not the type to pick apart movies. It doesn't have a heavy plot, and there's enough eye candy for both sexes to make the movie worth watching for most people.