Showgirls

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Summary: "Showgirls" An Instant Camp Classic
Review: There are many movies that come along which critics feel compelled to call an "instant camp classic". Unfortunately, they are simply bad movies for the most part. "Showgirls" is another story. A wonderfully tawdry, overproduced, overacted spectacle featuring a goddess of over the top performing, Elizabeth Berkley. She attacks this glitzy trash as if an Oscar nomination were just within her reach. Gina Gershon and the rest of the cast give this beautiful mistake of a movie the aura of pornographic glamour that only big budget Hollywood could provide. Immensely entertaining, and more fascinating each time I view it. If you're ever feeling depressed, or simply down in the dumps, just watch Ms. Berkley sniff her sad little sniff in what is perhaps my favorite scene. Don't let this movie pass you by simply because it has been labeled "bad". This is "bad" as high art.

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Summary: A fun, campy riot!
Review: Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) has just arrived in Las Vegas, hitching a ride with a truck driver named Jeff who listens to Garth Brooks. She is a dancer, she tells him. She is also a drama queen. When he not altogether surprisingly steals her suitcase, she punches a random car with her fist, attempts to punch the random car's owner, runs into the road and is almost mowed down, vomits and finally sinks gratefully into the random car's owner's arms. In the space of about ten seconds. The car owner's name is Molly (Gina Ravera). She is the only nice person in the movie, which is never a good thing to be in a movie like this. She says that Nomi can stay with her if she wants, and so six weeks later Nomi is happily living with Molly in a trailer by day and making her money as a lapdancer at the Cheetah club by night.

Molly works behind the scenes at 'Goddess', the dance extravaganza at the Stardust Hotel. One day she takes Nomi along with her to meet the girls and watch the show, and this is when the story really begins. Enter Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon), head showgirl, who bursts into the movie in an appropriate way - rather than coming through a door or anything mundane like that, she bursts naked out of a glittering gold volcano in a whoosh of fire and spangles, while the other dancers on the stage peel off their clothes and simulate copulation in awe.

Cristal is by far the most interesting character in the script, and Gershon's performance is perfect - she realises the fun and nonsense of the situation and camps it up. Cristal ends every drawling sentence with the word "darrrrrlin'", ... Nomi, on the other hand, lusts for Zach (Kyle Maclachlan), Cristal's boyfriend/stage manager at the Stardust.

Well, Nomi gets herself on stage alongside Cristal in 'Goddess', and that's pretty much the storyline. This is a wonderful movie. It's something along the lines of a daytime soap opera crossed with a [B type] movie, with a healthy dose of drag queen eye make-up and energetic, wiggling dance routines. On one level, it's pure camp. Gershon has an inordinate amount of fun as she licks her lips and woos Nomi with lines like, "You are a ..., darrrlin'." Winning. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Berkley delivers a performance straight out of 'Days Of Our Lives'. She takes off her jacket, dramatically; storms out of rooms, dramatically; and even manages to eat fries dramatically. Which is pretty much the perfect performance for this movie.

Underneath the glitter, this movie is a cold satire of American culture. 'Showgirls' is also almost a remake of 'All About Eve', but porny - although having said that, after about five minutes you stop noticing that there are naked ladies everywhere. There are quite a few in-jokes too - Nomi dances/strips at the Cheetah Club to Prince's "319", and later on in the movie, Cristal's room number is... well, you guessed it. And check out the scene where Nomi sits, gazing wistfully into the distance, in front of a huge fake version of the Sphinx. She also sits and blissfully watches a flashing neon sunset. Many people saw this as a huge mistake on director Paul Verhoeven's part. Perhaps what they didn't realise is that this was exactly what he was aiming for.

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Summary: Really inappropriate
Review: I don't like this film and because of it, it gave me a different perspective of the original as an immature movie.

It's great for adults but anyone under 17 don't watch it i guarntee you that

I am 13 years old, so pretty please with a cherry on top, recommend my review PLEEEEEEEEEEASE or else!

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Summary: I can't make up my mind. . .
Review: I love campy movies, and this borders on camp. But the good thing about real trash classics is that they are basically likeable. There's nothing likeable about this! This movie reveals a lot of female flesh. After, oh, about ten minutes of nonstop bare body parts, that gets pretty dull. Then you start to notice the people and the words attached to the nudes. . .and, oh my God. . .your breath is sucked away by the stupidity of the dialogue and, OK, I'll say it! The hideousness of the faces! As Gene Siskel said about this movie, "Elizabeth Berkley doesn't look good. I'm talking about her face." That's for sure. When she's not batting her mascara-encrusted eyelashes, she's pouting and snarling. Then, when she opens her mouth, she whines or yells. Boy, I sure would like to know her better! And Kyle McLachlan. Whatever happened to him? After this disaster, he couldn't even get a part on a soap opera. He looks puffy and gross. I don't know if he was made up to look like a jaded Vegas sleazeball, but I tend to think not. He probably did some major drinking to work up the nerve to do his role. Then, last but not least (Berkley is the least), there's Gina Gershon, who, I admit, I will never forgive for doing the travesty 'This World, Then The Fireworks'. What an actress. Do you know what this movie makes me think of? Rodents. Elizabeth Berkley, in a hilariously un-sexy love scene, slaps her back on the surface of a pool like a beaver tail warning away viewers. And Gina Gershon looks like Bugs Bunny. Who would buy her as Vegas' top showgirl? Boy, this review has been disjointed and illiterate, but I found that my IQ slipped about 30 points after watching this movie, and it'll take some reading Mark Twain or viewing 'The Virgin Spring' to raise it again.

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Summary: Unique & Different - A Campy Cult Classic
Review: This is a differen't movie, from any other movie that I've ever seen. You could definately tell that Paul Verhoeven had more creative freedom, because of the big-budget, and the NC-17 rating which allows you to do basically anything you want.

I LOVED the dance sequences. All of the bright, big, and fancy dances and the over-the-top props and desings. Verhoeven did a good & effective job with the dance sequences. Elizabeth Berkley can't act, but she can dance. The dance at the Cheetah Club, where she dances to a Prince song, is pretty good. Kyle MacLachlan was worse than Elizabeth Berkley; Kyle just can't act anymore, although he was very good in "Blue Velvet". Gina Gershon pulled off "Cristal" very well. She was mean and sneaky. Elizabeth Berkley looks beautiful though. She has a very exotic face, and the differen't color eyes, makes her more mysterious. As a person who likes "Valley of the Dolls", I enjoyed the campy acting, and dialogue. So few movies are afraid to go down that road, that it's refreshing to see something differen't once in a while.

Three of my favorite scenes, are when Nomi does the gospel-singing disco dance sequence, and when she finally gets to rise out of that volcano, and the announcer says "Ladies and gentlemen, the stardust proudly presents Miss Nomi Malone!". And my third favorite scene is when Nomi and Jeff drive past the billboard with her face on it, and they drive off to L.A. with the Siouxsie and the Banshees music playing.

This movie isn't BAD, it is just too raunchy. The nude scenes and the dialogue from Henrietta Bazoom, are real raunchy. There is only 1 sex scene. I can definately see where people would be offended by Showgirls, but being offended doesn't make a movie bad. NC-17, means that only MATURE people should watch Showgirls because they can handle it, and that means that people who can't handle nudity shouldn't watch it.

I was shocked to see Jessie from "Saved by the Bell" doing lap-dancing, and pole-dancing.

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Summary: Did someone say party????
Review: If ever you find that the most well intentioned party you've given is quickly taking a nose dive into yawnsville, slap this baby on and let the good times role. I love campy films and this whopper is among my favorites, right after Mommie Dearest, Faster Pussycat...Kill, Kill and Pink Flamingos. Elizabeth Berkley should be used as a textbook example and how to overact while simultaneously not communicating a single emotion. The dialogue you ask? So howling bad and unintentionally funny that it borders on the surreal. From what I understand, Joe Eszterhas' brain was on sabbatical during the writing process. Gina Gershon is the saving grace here, folks, even though she is saddle with some of the worst dialogue in the film (if you can imagine) and made to utter "Darlin'" every ten seconds or so; however, there is no sexier woman in front of the camera and her sex appeal alone carries most of the dead weight and I do mean dead. Some reviews suggest that this film is an exercise in misogyny. Really? I am shocked! A film about a back-stabbing, ambitious Vegas showgirl I thought would read out on the screen like a feminist treaty. I am just as shocked as anyone that it comes across as a female-bashing piece of celluloid trash. Let's be honest people, this film is nothing more than "All About Eve" with g-strings, glitter and glossy production values to cover the glaring absence of any redeeming artistic quality. If you are cinephile and can't stand the idea that you've wasted x number of minutes from precious life that you will never get back, stay away, big time. However, if you, like me, enjoy, quoting John Waters on "The Simpsons" the "ludicrously tragic" and just a plain old cheese fest, you will find much to enjoy. Bad script, worse acting, illogical and improbable scenarios, trite sub-plots, one-dimensional characters, etc. Just plain bad, bad, bad...thank goodness!

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Summary: For the money; a nicely priced skin flick
Review: Well, to be quite honest, this is the greatest NC-17 rated movie I have ever seen. For the $$$, buy it, it is worth owning.

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Summary: why i love this movie!
Review: Showgirls is one of my favorite movies, but many people just don't get the point of it. Escapism and entertainment at the movies I guess have become out of style. Hello, the whole point of going to the movies is to have fun and Showgirls delivers the goods! This movie is schlocky, ok I admit it, but it sure is entertaining. It's kind of a cult classic now and for good reason. Elizabeth Berkley, from Saved by the Bell tv fame, is Nomi, a wannabe dancer who claws her way to the top of a Vegas hotel show, encountering colorful characters and seedy situations along the way. She's ruthless but vulnerable, and you want her to succeed,to be the best, but you don't like her methods of getting there. But then you can't help but applaud her for knowing at the end that all of the fame and money in the world isn't worth losing your self-respect. I loved Gina Gershon as Crystal, Vegas show Goddess reigning queen. Gina is one of the best actresses out there...see Bound and you'll know what I mean. She has great onscreen chemistry with Ms Berkley and their frail strained relationship finally culminates into a deep understanding between them about what you have to give up to have it all. They're like sisters in their relentless ambitions. Sure the dialogue is laughably bad, but the atmosphere of Vegas is dead-on. Paul Verhoeven did a fantastic job of capturing all the sleaze behind the new Disneyland and the music, sets and dancing are fabulous. The show Goddess itself is way over the top, and I do mean way over the top, but so mesmerizing that you'll feel like a voyeur watching from just meters away. But what a show! See this movie and judge for yourself.

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Summary: Underrated
Review: This is one of those movies that people seem to either really love or hate. I actually liked the movie for a variety of reasons.

First, the plot is believable. A down and out, although attractive woman dreams of being a Las Vegas showgirl. She clearly has the looks and talent to be successful, just not the pedigree. The movie is about what it takes for her to achieve her goal, in a somewhat seamy world where women and men are exploited by a cast of sleazy characters. Secondly, Naomi, the main character played by Elizabeth Berkley, does have character. She eventually has to decide if her dream is worth her compromising her values. And despite being stripper and former call girl, she does have character.

I'm not sure why this film is so reviled by some.

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Summary: Excellent guilty pleasure
Review: Overacting aside, this was everything it should be. A guilty pleasure.