Coyote Ugly

Coyote Ugly is slick and flawless craftsmanship, but not exactly a typical Jerry Bruckheimer production, for there is not much action. With the many good-looking girls in the cast there is something for the lads, though not as much as the film poster and video cover suggest. There are, however, more than enough provocative and half-naked female bodies to make the scenes in the Coyote Ugly bar a notch too lewd.

Violet is a young woman from the sticks who dreams of making it as a songwriter, so she moves to New York. Of course it is not easy to make one's dreams come true, and to begin with she has to settle for a job at the Coyote Ugly bar as a dancing, karaoke-singing barmaid.

Violet also gets a boyfriend, Kevin, who believes in her talent but is disappointed that Violet shows no will to overcome her stage fright and apparently feels at home being a barmaid. She also loses her father, who disowns her when he sees how she earns her living. The obstacles are no greater, though, than that one is never in doubt that Violet will make a success of the pop craftswoman Diane Warren's melodic numbers.