Coyote Ugly

Jerry Bruckheimer's been busy on the production front recently. Pearl Harbour, the latest 'most expensive movie ever made', is due for release this year, and he's also the main producer behind the new TV series C.S.I.


Coyote Ugly made it to Australian shores on New Year's Day, a surprising six months later that the US release, and well over a year since the first previews were shown. The movie is not the tits-and-arse joyride that the preview suggests, but actually the dramatic story of a Jersey girl trying to make it as a songwriter in the big city of New York. Definitely not your standard Bruckheimer action flick - the most 'action' you'll see is a couple of bar brawls. Newcomber Piper Perabo is cute as the lead character Violet "Jersey" Sanford, but I doubt she'll actually make it as a major film star. John Goodman puts in an average performance as Violet's disapproving father. The best character by far is Coyote Ugly bar owner Lil, a hard-arsed but damn sexy thirty-something blonde - my ideal manager.


Rating: 7 out of 10.