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Showgirls (1995)

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Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 37

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 11

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Average Rating: 2.3/5
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"I'm gonna dance," Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) insists in the opening scene of Showgirls, and dance she does. In this quasi-update of All About Eve, Nomi is a drifter whose sole ambition is to headline the "Goddess" topless dance show at the Stardust in Las Vegas. Of course, even Nomi must pay her dues, and she does so at the Cheetah, grinding poles and lap dancing her way to a future. Fortunately, her roommate, Molly, works at the Stardust and invites Nomi to see the show, where she meets

NC-17, 2 hr. 11 min.

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Joe Eszterhas

Apr 25, 2000

MGM Home Entertainment

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All Critics (48) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (41) | DVD (33)

The script -- a generic blend mixing the soap of All About Eve with the suds of Valley of the Dolls -- is replete with the clunkiest dialogue this side of Peyton Place.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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A film of thunderous oafishness that gives adult subject matter the kind of bad name it does not need or deserve.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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One of the worst films of the year.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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Showgirls approximates the feeling of someone sleazy putting the make on you. Its brand of sexual harassment makes you feel dirty and not at all flattered.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
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[The script] is as hoary as it is whore-y, whipping out every backstage cliche as he recycles his Flashdance plot into Trashdance.

January 1, 2000 Comment
USA Today
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Think of Flashdance but with an unappealing leading lady playing a woman whose fierce ambition is to do something not admirable, just ridiculous.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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...a bad film, borderline inept, with an anti-erotic toxic charge about it. It deserved all the mean things people said about it.

July 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Beneath the Vegas glitz beats the heart of a cheap B-movie porno in Showgirls, a movie that truly is so bad it's funny.

June 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The surgically-enhanced Blu-ray edition of Showgirls is so good I can hardly thread a needle.

June 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Borderline porn cult "hit" with drugs, rape, topless fights.

March 30, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Even the grossest porn is more cheerfully sexual than this movie.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

The film emerges as a plastic, awkward mess without a hint of eroticism or genuine sexuality (not unlike Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly).

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is a magnum opus of the absurd.

September 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

A bore with nothing much to say about anything and for that matter not much to look at.

August 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

So bad, it's fun.

August 9, 2004 Comment

It's great that a critically and publicly lambasted movie gets a special edition [DVD] that gets it.

August 3, 2004 Full Review Source: About.com | Comment
About.com

"We could have brought anyone into this show: Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul. Nomi Malone is what Las Vegas is all about!"

July 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Showgirls is one of the most honest satires of recent years.

July 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comments (2)
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Audience Reviews for Showgirls

Boobs! That's about it.....crappy movie and horrible acting. The boobs got all 2 and a half stars. No boobs.......no stars.

September 24, 2011
Eric Alvarez

Super Reviewer

Bad things threaten us. The second we're unable to reconcile our personal worldview with something that doesn't fit into it, we immediately reject it as without merit. It's not this black and white with films, of course, but elementally we accept parts of movies that work for us and discard the ones that don't. When

April 18, 2011
ceWEBrity

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