Product Description
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DVD Special Features:
Featurette:
Search for the Stars
The Dreamer
Coyotes
Mr O'Donnell
Feature: Coyote 101:
A Place To Get Ugly
Calling the s
Shaking It
Featurette: Inside The Songs
Audio Commentary
Additional Scenes
Violet's Goodbye
Driving With Gloria
Stolen Goods
Action Overload
Theatrical Trailer
Music Video - LeAnn Rimes
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Surround 2.0 Russian
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hebrew
.co.uk Review
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Coyote Ugly is either a girls' film for boys or a boys' film for
girls. Either way, it's undemanding tosh that remixes 80s
"classics" like Fame, Cocktail, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing for
the turn of the century. The main attraction is Coyote Ugly
itself, a raucous New York bar run by tough-on-the-outside softie
Lil (Maria Bello) where the drinks and the customers are straight
and the girls who serve have to be skilled at lightning-fast
mental maths when adding up complex rounds as well as a sort of
clothed stripping as they line-dance, karaoke-wail or pole-hug on
top of the often-flaming bar itself. The plot is a t about a
shrinking violet actually called Violet (Piper Parabo) who comes
to the big city to do one-better than her showbiz near-miss
deceased mother and make it as a songwriter but is paralysed by a
stage-fright she only overcomes after a couple of energetic
nights working the crowds at Coyote Ugly. There's the usual
on-off romance, with a sensitive Australian bloke (Adam Garcia)
and some soap with an estranged Dad (always-good-value John
Goodman) who is hospitalised at just the right moment to prompt a
family revelation and a reunion that pays off with a
not-unexpected happy ending.
It all boils down to a 12-certificate teenage magazine romance
set in what as to a nudie bar where there's no actual
nudity. Both the men in the heroine's life seriously question
whether writhing suggestively for drunken lechers is an
empowering activity for an independent girl but since that's more
or less the film's strongest visual effect the script has to come
down on the side of the girls--if not the customers. The
supporting babes--Russian blonde Cammie (Izabella Miko),
ferocious brunette Rachel (Bridget Moynahan) and upwardly-mobile
Zoe (Tyra Banks)--gyrate and model Spice Girls cast-off gear, but
make less of an impression than Melanie Lynskey (the "other one"
from Heavenly Creatures) as the devoted, slightly dumpy best
friend back home. Like most Jerry Bruckheimer products, it's
slickly put-together, at once exciting and predictable, cut like
a commercial or a pop promo, directed by a non-entity (David
McNally), fantastical yet blue-collar "real" and self-destructs
in the mind after viewing. --Kim Newman
On the DVD: The disc is jammed with special features and bonus
material: "Search for the Stars" outlines the quest to find the
young cast members; "Inside the Song" offers an analysis of the
tunes, a voiceover by LeAnn Rimes and the thoughts of songwriter
Diana Warren; "Coyote 101"describes the ins and outs of the bar
itself, from the drink mixes to the dancers; while "Action
Overload" simply shows full-force action sequences from the film.
The disc also contains four deleted scenes, the LeAnn Rimes music
video, "Can't fight the Moonlight", the theatrical trailer and an
energetic commentary by the Coyotes themselves, Tara Banks, Maria
Bello, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan and Piper Perbo. Although
the disc certainly doesn't scrimp on the special features front,
each one tends to be fairly short and uninformative, lacking
detail. The DVD itself gives the visual and audio excellence you
would expect from a recent Hollywood blockbuster with a 5.1 audio
ratio and crisp widescreen format of 2.35:1. --Nikki Disney