The film's a mess, albeit a fascinating one.
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10/28/01
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:5
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This melancholy film explores the intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at a San Fernando Valley strip club, the Blue Iguana. None of them have it easy. Angel (Darryl Hannah) wishes... [More]
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Sandra Oh, Charlotte Ayanna
Director: Michael Radford
Reviews for Dancing at the Blue Iguana
This, I suppose, is what happens when a director allows his actors to put together a movie -- it's sort of like letting the inmates run the asylum.
10/21/01
A predictable exercise in fake tawdriness and half-nude psychodrama.
10/20/01
The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people.
10/19/01
More than anything, Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an acting showcase that allows its stars to strut their emotional range.
10/19/01
Top CriticMostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease.
10/19/01
Even if Dancing at the Blue Iguana can't rise to the level of the performances of Hannah, Oh and others, it is nonetheless engaging, not without humor and an aura of authenticity.
10/19/01
Top CriticA beautifully downbeat view of the dancers and their coworkers' as they spiral lower and lower.
10/19/01
Top CriticContains striking moments, but never coheres.
10/18/01
Showgirls is, of course, the gold standard of the genre, so rigorously deranged it approached perfection. This one is the aluminum standard.
10/18/01
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