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Coyote Ugly (2000)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 74

Well, the women in this film are incredibly attractive and flaunt that fact quite a lot. Unfortunatly, that's all there is to the film. The script is almost as big a joke as the charactors, and everything else follows the same path. If you're looking for a tease then see this flick, otherwise stay as far away as possible.

19

Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 22

Well, the women in this film are incredibly attractive and flaunt that fact quite a lot. Unfortunatly, that's all there is to the film. The script is almost as big a joke as the charactors, and everything else follows the same path. If you're looking for a tease then see this flick, otherwise stay as far away as possible.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 637,140

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Movie Info

An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter, so she moves to New York City in hopes of landing her big break. Needing to support herself until stardom rolls around, she takes a job as a barmaid at a new nightspot called Coyote Ugly, where the owner Lil (Maria Bello) and the staff of attractive young women dance on the bar,

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Drama, Comedy

Gina Wendkos, Jeff Nathanson

Dec 29, 2000

$59.8M

Buena Vista Pictures

Cast

All Critics (118) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (77) | DVD (30)

The father-daughter subplot packs all the emotional heft of Madonna's Papa Don't Preach video.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Mr. Showbiz
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Coyote Ugly is profoundly stupid, earnestly inept at conveying a story and hellbent on wallowing in its shallow emotional manipulations.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Sexist, shallow and silly. Teens+.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

When you add up all the cliches and the sweet, no-worries-to-speak-of plot, it comes out to be a hefty price to pay for an evening of cinema.

March 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The strangely appealing silliness of Coyote Ugly ain't over till the fat guy dirty dances.

August 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

The cast fleshes out the cliches exuberantly and with little irony, which is something of a relief.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

As slick and mindless as one might expect...

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

There were certain aspects that I loved.... It had to do with hot, sexy women dancing on a bar in a wet T-shirt contest.

September 2, 2005 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

You can likely glean the same sort of entertainment value from a dozen seconds of intent staring at the poster or video box cover.

June 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

Since the movie is all noise and lights, it's hard to tell where more noise and lights have been added.... (Unrated Extended Cut)

June 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

What an amazingly bad movie this is.

June 7, 2005 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment (1)
DVDTalk.com

A movie about a bunch of effortlessly attractive, empty-headed people who manage to constantly have fun at even the most menial of jobs . . . give me some reason to care!

March 20, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (4)
eFilmCritic.com
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Audience Reviews for Coyote Ugly

A classic!

June 24, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

The parts with the dancing at the bar are mildly entertaining. The rest is predictable, sappy and forgettable. Nothing special here.

May 15, 2007
wildaly14

Super Reviewer

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