Misbehavior is encouraged -- that little catch phrase says it all when walking into Coyote Ugly. In a nightlife market where you need to shell out a couple hundred bucks just to get a drink and a place to sit, the Ugly serves as the converse. With no tables or tacky plush couches, the playing field of the night is dramatically leveled. To hell with the pretentious dress codes, too, chances are you are going to get hosed down with a water spigot by one of the disobedient scantily clad bartenders anyway.
Let's be honest, no one needs to see the movie twice, but a visit to the bar can be rerun several times, with each show just as nice. There are no bad rooftop melodies or a nauseating plot to follow, it is just all the good parts of the flick; essentially a highlight of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit video with lots of booze and loud music. How could you go wrong?
The female empowerment thing is still making an effort, making men crawl on the floor over sharp tongued bottle-bearing vixens, as only women are allowed to do the coveted bar dance. If a visiting lady is so inclined, she can also offer her brassiere to the bar, where a wall of lace stands to reinforce the lack of sobriety within the place. The Coyotes, as the bartenders are called, have mastered the form of male magnets: alcohol and cleavage.
It is a drinking joint, no doubt, and no one seems to be complaining, with the 200-person capacity getting close to capacity every night. Don't be an idiot and ask for a Grey Goose and tonic, either: not the place for that, Armani boys. Shots and beer, all there is and all there should be.
A frat boy's dream, the Coyotes combine the sarcasm of the town's top comics, the sexiness of the city's top strippers and the moves of show-stopping dancers. More than 1,000 applicants duked it out for the coveted Coyote positions.
You won't see any big-name DJs coming through the raucous room, either. The loudest jukebox ever provides all the tunes needed and the soundtrack to get the girls going. Talking over the noise can be difficult, but it seems to be a nonissue as all the women are dancing and all the men are ogling. However, there is a smaller, quieter back room to recoup, sit or make a call to your wife and lie about where you are.