Product Details

• Actors: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, John Goodman, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko
• Format: PAL
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Rated: Unrated
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (249 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005LJC4

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As a producer, Jerry Bruckheimer makes movies for guys, mostly action films like Top Gun and Gone in 60 Seconds. The ones he makes that feature women, such as Flashdance and now Coyote Ugly, broaden their appeal with a fondness for "strong women." For Bruckheimer, that means self-determined, attractive women who don't need men to get what they want. Is there anything sexier than that? In Coyote Ugly, the charming young waif Piper Perabo stars as Violet, a New Jersey waitress who moves to New York to make it big as a songwriter. She has absolutely no idea how the music business works, relying instead on her faith in her own abilities. In order to make ends meet, she gets a job in a bar called Coyote Ugly, where the bartenders are scantily clad women who dance on the bar and order around their mostly male clientele. Really, they are strippers who don't have to take off their clothes. In fact, the owner (Maria Bello) orders them to enact the first rule of strip clubs: "Appear available but never be available." Bruckheimer is smart enough to focus on the naive girl instead of the seamier side of the story, following her as she realizes her dream and picks up a disposable but nice man along the way. Further "empowering" the female figures in the film, Zoe (Tyra Banks), the bartender whom Violet is replacing, leaves in order to go to law school. See? They're as smart as they are sexy! Then there's John Goodman, who turns in an absolutely charming performance as Violet's concerned father. This is a sweet and inoffensive film as long as you don't think too much about it. --Andy Spletzer

From The New Yorker

Cynical Hollywood moviemaking at its worst. The latest mess produced by the overblown hand of Jerry Bruckheimer ("Gone in 60 Seconds," "Con Air") concerns a Jersey songwriter (Piper Perabo) waiting for her big break while working in a loud, razzle-dazzle nightspot full of dancing bartenders and drunken patrons. Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, Izabella Miko, and Adam Garcia stomp the bar to pieces in choreographed mayhem, but there isn't a shred of a story to hang their characters on. The film, directed shamelessly by David McNally, is so haltingly edited that body parts seem to be flung at the camera; it's a whirling dervish of butts and breasts which makes "Flashdance" seem the height of understatement. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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92 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars >>>Info About UNRATED SCENES, June 2, 2005

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KiWiSouP "kiwisoup" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Ugly (Unrated Extended Edition) (DVD)

I got my hands on a copy the week before it came out and here are the extra parts that weren't in the initial release...even as bonus deleted scenes. I may have missed some...it has been some time since I have seen the movie.

- Extra solo dance scene with Tyra Banks to the song "Up In Here" (If Tyra could dance a little better they probably would have kept this scene)

- More outfits and dialogue can be seen in the changing room scene with Violet and Cammy.

- Phone conversation with Violet's dad includes her telling him to hold on while she dresses.

- Sex scene has been upgraded to softcore porn. (Obvious body double)

- Bra scene on the bar seems to be extended, correct me if I'm wrong

- New baseball scene with Cammy taking her clothes off to distract the opposing team. (Cheesy)

- Various inserted close up shots of the women's curves.

My advice is to stick with the original version. I have bought unrated DVDs before and this is the ONLY one where I regret doing so. Unless you are a straight man...which if you were, why are you buying this chick flick? That's about the only person who would enjoy the new additions. I literally cringe every time the new scenes come on. The theatrical version was sexy...but not in your face, trying way too hard to be sexy like this version.

52 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Movie to Howl For!-"COYOTE UGLY"!, November 11, 2000

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C-Girl 25 (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Ugly (DVD)

"Coyote Ugly" has to be the best romantic dramedy this year, even though this year has had it's share of bad romances-Autumn in New York, Down to You and The Next Best Thing just to name a few. The bar dancing scenes are incredible accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack including one of my favorites, "Pour Some Sugar on Me". Plus there are two new great songs from LeAnn Rimes,who is also in the movie, but I'm not reviewing the soundtrack so I'll skip this. And that's just the stuff you see in the previews. What you don't see on the surface through the previews are the great performances from newcomer Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia and the always great John Goodman. the story is mainly about Piper Perabo's character, nicknamed Jersey, who goes into the big city trying to get someone to perform her well written songs. She runs into several problems with a new boyfriend, some disagreements with her father, and many crazy encounters at the bar "Coyote Ugly". The title is explained in the movie to mean when you go home with a one night stand after a night of big drinking and you wake up with someone so ugly that you would rather chew your arm off than wake them up to know you're leaving. Believe me, you're not going to feel that way leaving this one! BUY THIS MOVIE!!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars one of the poorest films I have ever seen...., September 22, 2004

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D. Pawl "Dani" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coyote Ugly (DVD)

I wanted to see this film because I heard it was a fun and fluffy "pro-feminist" story. It was supposed to be engaging and sexy. Instead, I thought it was demeaning, unengaging and poorly acted. I know some might think I read into it a little too much because it is supposed to be one of those "fluff" films aimed at young teenage boys and women who need a little boost for their self esteem as sexy, independent beings.

Violet (Piper Perabo) is a shy and ambitious songwriter, who leaves the shelter of the home she shares with her father in New Jersey to the edgy environment of New York City. She doesn't know a soul and happens to wander into a bar filled with "coyotes" (women who dance on the bar table provocatively and also bartend for the many--predominantly male--customers). This obviously male fantasy of a young, sheltered artist breaking out of her shell and becoming more in touch with her sensuality was just silly. At the end, I found myself caring less and less what the resolution was and asked myself why I even wasted the $2.50 at the video rental to begin with!!!!