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		List Price: $29.99		Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Salesrank: 10477 Released: April 1, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
From hit-making producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) comes the unrated extended cut of Coyote Ugly. With an unbeatable cast of hot stars including Piper Perabo (The Prestige ) and Maria Bello (Payback), this sexy comedy is even more intoxicating on Blu-ray Disc®! Moving to New York to pursue her dreams of becoming a famous songwriter, Violet Sanford (Perabo) finds herself desperate and broke. Ironically, the shy, innocent Violet lands a job as a barmaid at the hottest nightclub in town: Coyote Ugly. Overflowing with attitude, the Coyotes spend more time on top of the bar than behind it, tantalizing the standing-room- only crowd with their outrageous antics! Drink in every frame of down-and-dirty fun as this wild adventure pours over you with sparkling visual clarity. Get up on your feet, move to the beat and revel in the spectacularly enhanced sound quality. The party never ends in Blu-rayTM High Definition!

Description of Coyote Ugly (The Double-Shot Edition) [Blu-ray]:
As a producer, Jerry Bruckheimer makes movies for guys, mostly action films like Top Gun and Gone in 60 Seconds. The ones he makes that feature women, such as Flashdance and now Coyote Ugly, broaden their appeal with a fondness for "strong women." For Bruckheimer, that means self-determined, attractive women who don't need men to get what they want. Is there anything sexier than that? In Coyote Ugly, the charming young waif Piper Perabo stars as Violet, a New Jersey waitress who moves to New York to make it big as a songwriter. She has absolutely no idea how the music business works, relying instead on her faith in her own abilities. In order to make ends meet, she gets a job in a bar called Coyote Ugly, where the bartenders are scantily clad women who dance on the bar and order around their mostly male clientele. Really, they are strippers who don't have to take off their clothes. In fact, the owner (Maria Bello) orders them to enact the first rule of strip clubs: "Appear available but never be available." Bruckheimer is smart enough to focus on the naive girl instead of the seamier side of the story, following her as she realizes her dream and picks up a disposable but nice man along the way. Further "empowering" the female figures in the film, Zoe (Tyra Banks), the bartender whom Violet is replacing, leaves in order to go to law school. See? They're as smart as they are sexy! Then there's John Goodman, who turns in an absolutely charming performance as Violet's concerned father. This is a sweet and inoffensive film as long as you don't think too much about it. --Andy Spletzer

Coyote Ugly (The Double-Shot Edition) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Coyote Ugly
2009-04-03 - Coyote Ugly is a good to watch. I liked from the first time I saw the movie.

Oh, because Cheers was taken
2009-01-08 - For the past 9 years I have harbored a secret desire to watch Coyote Ugly. I thought it would be extremely cheesy but that I would like it in spite of it all. A guilty pleasure. I expected to like it, like I enjoyed Flash Dance, Mystic Pizza with the debut of Julia Roberts, Bottoms Up with Paris Hilton and Jason Mewes, or Cocktail with Tom Cruise. I thought I would like it, but I didn't expect that I would like it as much as I did. Now I am wondering why I waited 9 years.

Violet Sanford (Piper Pirabo) is a Pizza Waitress in New Jersey, but she dreams of moving to New York to be a Songwriter. Her mother wanted to be a singer, too, but gave it up to marry Violet's dad (John Goodman). He is a toll collector, and he depends on her a lot, now that his wife has passed away. He can't stop her from pursuing her dream, even though he'd prefer that she stayed in Jersey.

Once she has moved to New York, she finds that it is tough making a living, and ends up working at a rough bar called Coyote Ugly, where the bartenders, all female, dance on the bar, and keep up a rowdy atmosphere that packs the joint nightly. What kind of drinks do they serve there?

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Customer: So, basically you have...?
Lil: Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it's in a shot glass.
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At first Violet/Jersey has a really rough time of it, but Lil, the owner, thinks her fresh innocent look will make up for what she lacks in experience:

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Lil: Hey, everybody, shut up! I'd like you to meet my new girl, whose name is... Jersey! Jersey, is an ex kindergarten teacher, and a former nun, who just escaped from the convent, and is tired of being the only virgin in New York City! Would anyone like to buy her a drink?
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Not surprisingly, quite a few want to have that privilege. After a while she fits right in, but still she wonders why the strange name?

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Girl: Can I ask you somethin'?
Lil: What?
Girl: What - Oh, what does Coyote Ugly mean?
Lil: Did you ever wake up sober after a one night stand, and the person you're next to is layin' on your arm, and they're so ugly, you'd rather chew off your arm then risk waking 'em? That's coyote ugly.
Girl: My God. But, why would you name your bar after somethin' like that?
Lil: Oh, because Cheers was taken.
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Meanwhile she is making the rounds with her demo tapes and goes to another bar where the bartender tells her that Mr. O'Donnell (Adam Garcia), who is really a cook, is in charge of booking. He plays along until his boss blows his cover, and then, though he got off on the wrong foot, he keeps trying to win her over. One guess if he ever does. She is also having a hard time overcoming her stage fright, but finds that the only way to get her songs heard is to perform at the open mic. Wonder if she ever gets over that stage fright?

Coyote Ugly takes what is a cliché as a story, but it is done very well. The Coyotes put on quite a show, and the dance numbers and routines in the bar are really the highlight of the film. One of the dancers, Zoë, is played by Tyra Banks, who does her best Naomi Campbell impersonation. Coyote Ugly is always just on the verge of a huge bar room brawl. Piper Pirabo is really great in the lead, like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, or Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza. She looks a lot like Carly Simon, with a luscious full set of lips. She is really quite a pretty face, but her acting wasn't too shabby, either. I am surprised that she is not an even bigger star.

Adam Garcia, as the grill cook/boyfriend, was more than adequate to the task. He is an Australian with a background in dance, and at first his career seemed to be following in John Travolta's footsteps, with parts in Australian productions of Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Luckily, his character, Kevin O'Donnell, is supposed to be from Australia, too. He has played opposite Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Drew Barrymore in Riding in Cars With Boys. In Ugly, his character went beyond the basic requirements for a cute boyfriend and had a few quirks. He was a comic book collector, and trades his most prized possession, a rare Spider-man comic, for an audition for Violet. Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy) actually did some unaccredited work on the script, but surprisingly, though he is an avid comic collector who sold his collection to finance his early films, and then bought them back as soon as he could afford to, he didn't come up with the idea to make O'Donnell a comic collector.

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who surprised writer Gina Wendkos because that is not his usual shtick, Ugly features Johnny Knoxville (Jackass), Ellen Cleghorne (Saturday Night Live), and Bud Cort (Harold & Maude) in cameos.

One aspect of Coyote Ugly that I enjoyed was the music, though the music that Violet writes, Piper Pirabo auditioning or performing the songs that she "wrote," was nothing to write home about. In spite of her not really knocking me out with her singing talent, I identified with her quest, being a denizen of the open mic scene myself. She somehow managed to turn a diagnosis of the symptoms of Stage Frightus Majorious into a cute seduction scene that I forgave for its silliness for obvious reasons. There was some good music on the soundtrack. There is a song by Joe Strummer and The Mescalaros, a little INXS, some Blondie, Kid Rock, The Georgia Satellites, Reverend Horton Heat, Third Eye Blind, The Stray Cats, Billy Idol, and LeAnn Rimes even shows up as a new Coyote near the end and does a tune. LeAnn is also dubbed in when Piper is singing, but they just didn't have that great of material for her to do. I would much rather hear LeAnn's rhymes on the Patsy Cline style "Blue" or some hard core Country than to have her waste her pipes on the watered down pop Piper was doing. Still, the soundtrack album did remain in the Billboard Top 40 for more than a year.

Coyote Ugly? More like Coyote Lovely!

Piper Pirabo

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) .... Rachel Ashe Lynn
Imagine Me & You (2005) .... Rachel
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) .... Nora Baker
Lost and Delirious (2001) .... Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) .... Karen Sympathy [John Goodman also has a small role as Oklahoma Cop]

Adam Garcia

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) .... Stu
... aka Bekenntnisse einer Highschool Diva (Germany)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition) (2001) .... Jason
Bootmen (2000) .... Sean Odken
Wilde (1997) .... Jones

John Goodman

Masked and Anonymous (2003) .... Uncle Sweetheart
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) .... Oklahoma Cop
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) .... Big Dan Teague
The Big Lebowski - 10th Anniversary Edition (1998) .... Walter Sobchak
The Flintstones (1994) .... Fred Flintstone
Jailbait Babysitter (1977)

Bud Cort

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2004) .... Bill Ubell
Pollock (2000) .... Howard Putzel
Dogma (1999) .... John Doe Jersey
Ted and Venus (1991) .... Ted Whitley
Son of Hitler (1978) .... Willi Hitler
Pumping Iron (1977) (scenes deleted) .... Himself
Harold and Maude (1971) .... Harold Parker Chasen
Brewster McCloud (1970) .... Brewster McCloud
The Traveling Executioner (1970) .... Jimmy Croft
The Strawberry Statement (1970) .... Elliot - Coxswain
MASH (1970) .... Pvt. Lorenzo Boone
Sweet Charity (1969) (uncredited) .... Hippie

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Violet: Look, are you really the owner? 'Cause I've had a rough couple of days and so the last thing I need is some waitress on a power trip wastin' my time.
Lil: You start Friday night.
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experience the excellent soundtrack
2009-01-06 - I wouldn't necessarily claim Coyote Ugly to be a movie made solely to market its soundtrack that went Platinum, and "Can't Fight the Moonlight" found its way into radio rotations everywhere. Movie is saturated with popular music and the PCM 5.1 uncompressed soundtrack on this disc is phenomenal, none of these songs have ever sounded better at home. The music emanates from all around the listening area, creating an immersive and captivating experience that is only surpassed by real life. Bass really thumps in many scenes, as it should and as the viewer should expect it to in a movie like this, especially in scenes that feature music with heavy, deep beats.

Good Picture-Great Audio
2008-12-12 - I was not so impressed with the video quality. It was a bit grainly, but better than the DVD copy. Blu-ray gives you the newer lossless sound that will rock your world. You will feel like you are in the bar.

I recommend this because of the sound quality and it is worth the upgrade if you like this movie.

Coyote... Ugly!!!
2008-12-08 - "Coyote Ugly" is one of those wonderfully bad Disney movies. How did Disney manage to market a movie about a girl who finds fame&fortune in a dive bar as a scantily clad beer wench? It boggles the mind! Tyra Banks herself stars as Zoe,who's leaving the bar to pass the bar exam (she may select America's Next Top Model,but apparently she can be a lawyer too) Piper Perabo is the lead,Violet,who has dreams of songwriting. She lives with her concerned father,John Goodman.

Violet comes to the Coyote Ugly,an urban cowboy bar where "strong women" order men around,wearing not much of anything. Maria Bello (before she was Viggo Mortensen's hot wife in A History of Violence),tells her to be "available,but not too available." Violet falls for an Aussie. There's some passionate lovemaking in front of cardboard cut-outs--I'm not making that up. The course of true lust never does run smooth. There's mistaken identity,a relationship crisis... but in the end,Violet lives the American Dream.

**SPOILER ALERT** In the end,Violet triumphantly sings her song atop the bar with LeAnn Rimes.

"Coyote Ugly" is the family-friendly,toned-down "Showgirls." It's good,bland fun! Watch it with Mariah Carey's tour de force,"Glitter" about empowered woman in the world of fame!