This movie really isn't good whatsoever. I'm not going to pretend it is. The acting is at times like a soap opera, everything plays out overly dramatically and things sometimes just flat out don't make sense. It is however a movie I without fail end up watching all the way through if I see it on. Every time. I've made other people sit through this just so they can experience how ridiculous it is. It's like watching a train wreck, you just can't look away. When this movie originally came out, it was an enormous flop. It was supposed to make Elizabeth Berkley (the lead) a huge star, and instead it did the opposite, few people wanted to work with her after this film.
The movie is about a wanderer named Nomi who hitchhikes her way to Las Vegas, gets taken in by a girl named Molly, and gets a job dancing at the "Cheetah Club" as a stripper/private dancer. Molly works as a costume designer at the Stardust hotel's showgirls show "Goddess", which Nomi eventually gets an audition with when she shows off her dancing skills by giving the shows entertainment director a private dance at her strip club. She gets the gig and begins dancing in the show, but is constantly at odds with the shows main star "Crystal Connors", played (and outacted by) by Gina Gershon. Eventually Nomi's ambition to be the star of the show makes her push Crystal down the stairs and lands her in the hospital, leaving Nomi to fill her shoes as the show's lead.
This movie also has Kyle MacLachlan in it, who plays the shows entertainment director (and whom I will always associate as Trey from Sex and the City), Nomi's half-love interest. I say half because the guy was previously screwing Crystal Connors, who is bi and also wants to fuck Nomi. One great line from the movie is when Kyle MacLachlan's character Zack says to Crystal "are you mad because I fucked her, or because I beat you to the punch?" This entire movie is just a buffet of sexuality and nudity. Everyone is either entirely naked or at least topless throughout 3/4th of the film. That doesn't bother me at all anyway, after a while you forget you're even looking at boobs anymore because they're in every scene. Ever laugh in musicals or tv shows when people suddenly burst into song and dance and everyone seems to know the steps and words? That happens a lot in this movie. Nomi seems to know all the routines people are trying to teach her after having watched them for a fraction of a second. Then there's the sex scene with Nomi and Zack in his pool, where she thrashes around so violently you can't tell whether she's having sex or an epileptic fit. Her body is literally slapping backwards against the water. Any normal person who attempted that would snap their neck, or drown themselves as there was also a small waterfall behind her which would have been flowing up her nose. Ridiculous.
I found this great parody on youtube of this pool scene, it's from "Another Gay Sequel" and may give you an idea of how retarded the actual scene is.
Elizabeth Berkley also has some of the largest hips I've seen on a skinny girl. Whenever they zoom up on them their sheer size continues to shock me. The guys I've forced to watch this film still gave it bad reviews despite all the nudity. About halfway through they were actually wanting these people to put some damn clothes on. They found a way to make boobs boring to men! Who knew that could even happen. Watch this movie and you'll see what I mean.
Overall it's one of those so-bad-it's-good types of films, but clearly not to everyone. This movie bombed for a reason, a good one, and to enjoy it you need to be able to see past the stupid over-acting, inability to make sense, and complete lack of a decent ending to the quirkiness and take this film as what it is: something to laugh at. A+ to Gina Gershon's acting though, if you decide to see this movie for any reason, it should be to see what she does with her character.
Oh, one more thing. The first thing I thought when I saw Elizabeth Berkley was how closely she resembled AnnaLynne McCord (from Nip/Tuck and 90210). It was rather freaky. If this movie is ever remade, they should know who to call!
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