VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

mrliteral What a complete and utter mess. Yes, there are interesting characters. Yes, there are good performances. Yes, there are scenes which are compelling in and of themselves. To make the movie equally good and interesting and compelling requires some type of thematic element, a storyline, that will tie everything together. There is none here.There are scenes with characters behaving in precisely the opposite manner of their previous scene. There are moments and concepts that have nothing to do with anything yet keep popping up and going nowhere. There are ancillary characters who come and go without doing anything or adding to the scenes they show up in. Lousy storytelling.If the trivia is accurate, and there are enough alternate takes to create ten vastly different movies out of all the footage...how awful must the alternative possibilities be if this is the best one they could come up with? Congratulations, though, on having so many well-known actresses naked in the same movie. That's quite an achievement.

thatwasrudeofme A gritty and harsh view of the Stripper's world. A lot of which was taken from screen siren Daryl Hannah's quirky and informative documentary "Stripnotes". The characters are all well developed and easy to relate and symapthise with,the most commendable performances laying with lesbian icon Jennifer Tilly, currently popular Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) and last but not the least the leggy talent showered bombshell that is queen Daryl Hannah of the movie screen. The style and settings of the movie add much to its overall feel and are able to involve the viewer in the reality that is the sleazy but somewhat enchanting stripbar. The dancers,the costumes,the poles,the punters,the drinks,the smokes,the fun,the tears,the hardship,the routine. It'll have you whirling round lamposts like a hulla hoop on crack. A MUST SEE! 10/10!

imdbyes Why do movies about strippers have to be so stereotypical? Strippers are women, an there are happy strippers out there, strippers with loving families, not every stripper has to be on drugs or be abused, or is stupid. After all that work the actors an director put in, I am real shocked that that is all they came up with, I expected more. Not every cliché in the book .... I thought Daryl Hannah's acting in this movie sucked, and Jennifer Tilly was too over the top ... I did like Sandra Oh's acting, and I also liked Charlotte ayanna's acting. ... It was an entertaining movie, and I liked the dancing scenes, specially the scene when jasmine first comes out an dances, she has a nice butt too. Really good body ... I thought the documentary that Dary Hannah was involved in was very good, I was sad when it was over so soon, it left me wanting more, the strippers in the documentary where not 1 dimensional like in the movie, some where strong, others were heartbreaking, others were happy, there was more sides to them than in the movie characters.

leplatypus I was very happy to see the ending credits. There was nothing absolutely unforgettable in this flick.The locations: a gloomy nightclub in LA, where the dancers don't even give a show. But, as the director would say, the choice was not made to shoot their art (à la "Showgirls") but to tell their life.Next, the story: Inexistent. We saw the private and desperate life of those women but there is no dynamic, no drama. It is like a collection of small vignettes. The more interesting are the Hannah's one, because she plays a naive dumb character. The acting: the choice for uncharismatic actresses but good improvisers is really interesting for the director, not for the audience.In conclusion, the real "Dancing at the blue iguana" isn't directed by Radford but by Hannah. Her documentary is a fine work and succeeds where the movie always fails. The direction has a good tempo, the real strippers are touching. Thanks to the DVD!!!!