A predictable exercise in fake tawdriness and half-nude psychodrama.
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10/20/01
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Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:5
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.6/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 19, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: This melancholy film explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana. None of them have it easy. Angel (Darryl Hannah) wishes... [More]
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Sandra Oh, Charlotte Ayanna
Director: Michael Radford
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Reviews for Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Top CriticThis, I suppose, is what happens when a director allows his actors to put together a movie -- it's sort of like letting the inmates run the asylum.
10/21/01
Top CriticAlways a more interesting acting exercise than compelling drama.
01/04/02
The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people.
10/19/01
Too often the uneven script is either hopelessly strained or tediously lackadaisical.
12/09/01
More than anything, Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an acting showcase that allows its stars to strut their emotional range.
10/19/01
Top CriticMostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease.
10/19/01
Top CriticContains striking moments, but never coheres.
10/18/01
After a full hour of Iguana I was watching the DVD counter tick by in slow motion.
12/29/01
There's a lot of tepid exotic dancing as the girls' writhe and slither around the pole.
01/02/02
The film's a mess, albeit a fascinating one.
10/28/01
Even if Dancing at the Blue Iguana can't rise to the level of the performances of Hannah, Oh and others, it is nonetheless engaging, not without humor and an aura of authenticity.
10/19/01
Top Critic
Showgirls is, of course, the gold standard of the genre, so rigorously deranged it approached perfection. This one is the aluminum standard.
10/18/01
A beautifully downbeat view of the dancers and their coworkers' as they spiral lower and lower.
10/19/01
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