Showgirls [DVD]

This video gives a pretty fair taste of the sleaze behind the glitter of showgirls. These are the pretty talented dancers who can become quite ruthless in their quest for fame. They don't care who they hurt. They become skilled at using people. Sadly, anyone who has been part of the entertainment business will relate to the truth of this piece of fiction which could easily have been based on a true story. The performances are superb without exception and the dance routines electrifying. It's great entertainment. Highly recommended!

a interesting film to be revisted, elizabeth berkley is gorgeous, fantastic blu ray quality at a great price.

The video disc was easy to play and set up. The content was okay and the performances were quite good if a little strained at first. The story was a little over-the-top but it grew on me. I didn't like the moral of the story: namely that anything goes in the fight to get ahead. This didn't seem to matter too much because the main character was almost living on the breadline. However the point was made that we all need friends if we want to survive and at the end of the story justice was served, even if it was a bit rough! The bad guys in the movie did deserve some far from gentle treatment, in my opinion. Some of the secondary characters were a bit sleazy but let's not forget that Las Vegas, where the action took place, is a city known by some as the 'City Of Sin'! The dancing in this film was executed very well but the choreography could have been more tasteful. A good point was implied in the movie that just because someone works in the adult entertainment industry it doesn't automatically make them bad or nasty people.

CULT CLASSIC

Very few comedies have the guts to just play it straight, and let the audience realise where the jokes are. But when you do it right, the payoff is immense.Showgirls is one of those comedies. To this day marketed as a serious drama, for those of us that know the truth, Showgirls finds Elizabeth Berkley of Saved By The Bell establishing herself as a gifted comedienne.The show is nearly stolen from her Nomi character, though, by virtually every member of the colourful supporting cast.The storyline is irrelevant to the hilarity that ensues, but is basically a classic tale of getting everything you want and then not liking it when you get it.Over the film's admittedly overlong two hours, the cast unleash a huge array of hilarious one-liners, nonsensical dialogue and absolutely baffling over-reactions to the plot developments; all, as previously mentioned, treated completely seriously to only make it funnier.Most of these lines feature substantial profanity so it's hard to give an indication of just how funny the film is here, but the running gags are fantastic, involving many topics that were previously off-limits for a mainstream comedy like menstruation and ejaculation.The show stealer here is Robert Davi as Al, the owner of the strip club where Nomi works before her success. Literally every single line he has in the film is side-splitting, although Glen Plummer is almost as funny as the scumbag choreographer James Smith.I recommend to anyone with anything approaching a sense of humour to see Showgirls - the black comedy to end all black comedies.

The film itself is not particularly great but Elizabeth Berkley steals the show & is absolutely fantastic. She puts her all into the role & is so beautiful & believable. Worth buying just for her acting performance. Don't expect a great story line or a great film, if you do you'll be disappointed.

I like it. It could be seen as barely disguised pornography, but unlike porn this actually has a good plot and is fairly uncheesy. Elizabeth Berkley is very good in this. I remember the days when I used to watch her in the teen TV series "Saved By The Bell" Hasn't she come a long way? Showgirls is a powerful, unpredictable movie and a turn on. Elizabeth's character kinda comes full circle by the end of the movie. It's satisfying. The people who give this a thumbs down are probably just offended by the huge amount of topless girls in it. I'd definitely recommend this movie. Like I said, what's not to like about it?

It's been a long time since my previous viewing of this movie. But the recent acquisition of this DVD version has renewed my fascination for the beautiful Elizabeth Berkley. There have been many reviews for different versions of this movie decrying it completely or making fun of it. I just can't follow that attitude. I like the script and the way it was done. And I don't complain about there being a lot of bare skin. That's part of the game in this case, just like the excessive make-ups for the showgirls. I'd give four stars, but I give five because I love the looks of Berkley here.