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Coyote Ugly
Metascore
27 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 29
  3. Negative: 17 out of 29
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    It's amazing how far a movie can go on nothing but speed and directness.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    75
    As shallow as a shot glass.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    A rather likable and very sweet-spirited story.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    There is a reason to see the movie, and that reason is Piper Perabo.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    50
    Meant to be appreciated solely for its gleaming surfaces.
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  6. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Doesn't have what it takes to be truly terrible.
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  7. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    50
    Doesn't display a single deep thought, or even a middlingly profound one.
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  8. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    50
    Failed feminist statement or not, Coyote Ugly is a likable, if confused film.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    Welcome to the brave new world of slut-chic cosmetic feminism.
  10. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    50
    An authentically spirited popcorn movie.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    The bar scenes are the only reason to sit through this jello shot of a movie.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    The latest and most calculated re-do on the formulaic fantasy of an innocent conquering Gotham.
  13. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    39
    Plays out like a raunchy episode of "Felicity."
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  14. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Completely false, manipulative, exploitative and insulting.
  15. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Such an utter piece of fluff so conceptually barren it might as well be a music video.
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  16. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    Should appeal to anyone who likes films as mushy and unsurprising as baby food.
  17. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    30
    It's soft-core pap for horny boys and their hornier dads.
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  18. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    30
    A bad movie for connoisseurs of the genre.
  19. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    25
    The bar scenes do make for a great, although brief, package.
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  20. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    There's no limit to Coyote Ugly's crass shamelessness.
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  21. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    20
    A weaselly little thing.
  22. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    20
    It probably helps to be loaded while you're watching this movie.
  23. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    20
    I liked Coyote Ugly better when it was called "Flashdance," although I didn't like it very much then.
  24. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Susannah Breslin
    20
    Miss Piper single-handedly destroys what could have been a competent little movie about chicks being naughty and getting ahead.
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  25. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    10
    A work of top-shelf schlock.
  26. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    10
    I'd rather eat ball bearings.
  27. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    10
    Looks like a big-budget version of a Miller's Genuine Draft commercial.
  28. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    10
    Another piece of phony uplift from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
  29. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    0
    Cinematic flat-lining.
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User Score
5.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 37 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 21
  3. Negative: 8 out of 21
  1. hoops2448
    0
    Coyote Ugly is one of those movies that hides behind its feel good ending. The fact that everyone ends up happy at the end doesn't mean that the film isn't a sexist, overly long, overly shmaltzy piece of terrible cinema. Sure there may be some who consider the film a piece of female empowerment cinema (Zack Snyder probably) but in the real world its just a story about a girl who gets pushed into a corner and uses her 'feminine' ways to get herself out. The romance between Perabo and Garcia is empty as the two have no chemistry and the scripting is terrible. Its beginning to end a terrible film that I advise you to avoid. Unlike Sucker Punch this piece of female empowerment doesn't have some visually stunning fight scenes to fall back on, just a tepid love story and some uninspired music choices.… Full Review »
  2. AP
    0
    I had the misfortune of believing the movie would improve as it neared the end. I was wrong.
  3. ChrisK.
    5
    The film's interesting. The story behind the bar with musicians who manage to make a living one way or another. Half of the movie is probably covered in booze and bras, but that's how most people see it. There are some lessons to be learned, I take that back... a few lessons here. It's worth a rent, just not a buy.… Full Review »
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