Coyote Ugly Review

No sooner do we see Adam Garcia as the hero of Bootmen than up he pops in a Hollywood popcorn movie called Coyote Ugly - it wasn`t such a stretch for him because basically they`re the same film..... except this is the story of a girl who wants to be a songwriter...... The actual star of the film is Piper Perabo - she plays Violet a girl from a town in New Jersey, 42 miles from New York who leaves life with Dad - John Goodman - to try her luck in the big apple. She gets a downbeat apartment in Chinatown which is miraculously transformed into chichi liveable, a job in a bar named Coyote Ugly where the major entertainment is the girls dancing on the bar and develops a relationship with Australian Kevin who wants to encourage her career despite her stagefright. It`s pretty formulaic stuff......I could be totally dismissive of Coyote Ugly except for the fact that some of the young women in the audience seemed to love it, they actually clapped at the end. It`s not witty at all but there are some semi-funny lines which seemed to derive from the cockiness of the girls as they handle the mass of drinkers. It`s no surprise to discover that first time feature director David McNally made his name in advertising. A few more brand names and it would have been a shoo-in. But the dialogue is so trite, the storyline so cliched - first time feature screenwriter Gina Wendkos apparently comes from an alternative art background - that it`s truly hard to be interested in anything happening on screen. Adam Garcia and Piper Perabo are merely winsome, they`re not believable at all. Coyote Ugly` s a Jerry Bruckheimer Production, it`s a movie made for an undemanding demographic.