That cheesy movie "Coyote Ugly" was so obviously a rip-off of "Flashdance", however nobody really seems to talk about it.In fact, I'm not sure if anybody else even know.I remember when I was watching Coyote Ugly for the first time I remember thiking, "This reminds me of another movie. What movie am I thinking of?....."

Finally I realized I was thinking of Flashdance , and after I figured out what movie it seemed to be ripping the plot from I could actually predict what was gonna happen BEFORE it happened.

I haven't seen "Coyote Ugly", but there is one film critic who admits that he actually liked it in a campy trashy way. His name is Richard Roeper, who is Roger Ebert's fellow critic on their TV show. He replaced the late Gene Siskel.

Roeper is younger than most well-known and established movie critics, so he probably has more of a liking to various 80's movies than most of his peers.

I remember the time when Roeper said that he enjoyed "Coyote Ugly", and would've given it "thumbs up" even if he never saw "Flashdance" and another movie called "Cocktail" (1988), which starred Tom Cruise. Roeper said "Coyote Ugly" is a movie "so cheesy, it's good", and later said the idea for this movie probably happened when some movie executive was thinking "Gee, what would happen if we remade that Tom Cruise 'Cocktail' movie, put chicks in the lead roles, and have a 'Flashdance' feel to it?"

It especially spoofed Top Gun, the Rambo films, The Right Stuff, 9-1/2 Weeks, Platoon, and several others.