Customer Reviews

Bar Girls [VHS]

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

"Bar Girls" is an enjoyable little romantic comedy about an obsessive, incredibly funny cartoonist, Loretta, who is continually looking for that perfect significant other. When she actually finds her, she thinks it's too perfect and all her neurotic, but hilarious, self-sabotage tendencies kick in. Clever dialogue between Loretta and her best friend, tension-filled moments between Loretta and the film's stereotypical "bad girl", as well as tender moments of self-awareness make up for the film's obviously lacking depth. The intermittent scenes of Loretta's cartoon and the cartoon's heroine are hilarious! In all, "Bar Girls" is kinda cheesy, but an enjoyable 90-minutes nonetheless.

I was disappointed. After reading positive reviews I felt the storyline was dumb, the acting poor and the relationships unbelievable. Rent before you buy.

I am not a lesbien. I am not female. I am a male. There, now that I've released that into the universe I can get on with my review!

I rented this on a whim, curiousities sake granted. Expectations aside I felt "Sheesh, what are u getting yourself into this time Tom?" As I watched "Bar Girls" I began to get into the characters, feeling them, understanding them. I loved the relationship between the two main characters. It was fascinating to watch the trials and tribulations of their "dysfunctional love affair" so to speak. It was fun to see them get to know eachother and fumble around that thing called love. I think it's more fun to watch people in the horrendous dating scene than to be an active participant! One of my favourite lines in the movie is where some of the girls are again, at the bar "doin' hard time". One girl was finally so fed up with "the bar scene" she screams out "this place is so unhealthy!" I laughed so hard at that having had the same thoughts as her. The characters in "Bar Girls" are what made the movie for me. They are all so loveable and intriguing. And watch for Chastity Bono in a rare cameo appearance.

Some of Bar Girls was also filmed in West Hollywood. It was neat to see "Freida's" and "Mickey's" and "Rage".

I only wish I could get a better copy, mine is a dubbed copy! All and all a neato moovee!

I think there must be two movies called Bar Girls, cause I certainly didn't see the same movie as the rest of the reviewers. This was the worst movie I have ever seen. The plot went slower than a slug on valium. Watching it was so painful it made me want to bang my head against a wall till I passed out. The characters were uninteresting and definitely unrealistic. Butch women tend to look butch, not like femmes with slightly less make up. The acting was terrible, the directing was terrible, and the screenplay must have been written by a drugged mime. If you want to know what lesbian culture is really like, watch anything but this movie.

Director Marita Giovanni's film is based on a play by Lauran Hoffman. Hoffman's material may get tied up in psychobabble but she has an ear for entertaining dialogue and mercilessly avoids the archness usually associated with lesbian drama. Set around an LA Girl bar it focuses on Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe), a beautiful red-haired cartoonist, and her romance with actress Rachel (Liza D'Agostino). Wolfe's performance is droll and moving, and she manages to throw off the bad ideas Giovanni and Hoffman aim at her. She also deliberately approximates the glamour of Rita Hayworth from Gilda. Her apartment features the famous poster of Hayworth smoking, as well as a huge closeup of Lotte Lenya's eyes. The character of Rachel is less interesting though D'Agostino holds her own with Wolfe in their fight scenes. I also like Loretta's ditzy friend Veronica (Justine Slater), a straight woman "enchanted" by the idea of a lesbian affair. Those wanting to see a graphic sex scene will not be disappointed but it felt to me Giovanni cut away at a "climactic" moment. The awful soundtrack suggests the film's low budget, as does the underpopulated bar, though this underpopulation serves Hoffman's incestuous roundelay theme. Note a cameo by Chastity Bono at Scorpio night.

I was severely dissippointed by this video. It was one of the first lesbian films I rented after coming out and I was horrified. It left me thinking all lesbian films had this poor quality of acting and dialog. The characters are so over the top and stereotypical that you have to laugh even when the scene is serious. Rent before you buy! Please!

I was terribly disappointed by this film. The sound, screenplay, acting and direction are all terrible. Everything about it just screams low budget. It has the quality of a home video created in someone's basement. This is a film to avoid!

If you really want to see women in believable roles as lesbians, this movie presents a hefty bunch of credible characters. It is light and funny, not burdensome as some other films about gay women have tended to be lately. In all, it truly deserves the title "romantic comedy". And the fact that there are virtually no male characters does not detract from the film at all. This movie seeks to depict gay women in a realistic vain. While there is a lot of relationship drama- there is almost no cosmic philosophy found in many of those lesbian melodrama films. I found this very refreshing. In short, if you want to have a life changing, philosophical experience, rent an art film. If you want to see cute lesbians doing everyday things, get Bar Girls.

I had thought about buying this DVD for a long time then it appeared on The Movie Channel, so I could see it for free. I almost couldn't stand to watch it even then. The acting is terrible and the situations between the women are even worse. I don't know why any of these characters would be considered attractive to anyone. If this is what is being used to represent lesbian culture, we're in worse shape than ever. Don't buy this. In fact, don't watch it.....even for free. Too bad I couldn't give it zero stars.

what happened to the gorgeous, husky-voiced, luscious, deliciously dykey Camila Griggs who plays the agressive cop J.R. Now, she is hot. My "ultimate dream girl" fantasy to quote her character in the movie.You could cast her as the Xena uber in any of those fan inspired novels with no leap of imagination whatsoever. Someone should've starred her in her own lesbian indie. The woman has got to have a following. It was great to see a strong, totally believable (and very attractive) amazon gay woman portrayed for a change.