- Actors: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi
- Directors: Paul Verhoeven
- Writers: Joe Eszterhas
- Producers: Alan Marshall, Ben Myron, Charles Evans, Lynn Ehrensperger, Mario Kassar
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
- Run Time: 128 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004D0C5
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,339 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
When Goldie Hawn recommended Elizabeth Berkley for a small role in First Wives Club, she publicly stated that Berkley deserved the opportunity to redeem herself after starring in the ridiculous Showgirls. That says it all: this sleazy, stupid movie, which mixes soft pornography with the clichés of backstage dramas, is the kind of project an aspiring actress would have to put well behind her to keep a career going (though co-star Gina Gershon certainly benefited from her, uh, exposure in the film). Berkley plays a drifter who hitches a ride to Las Vegas, becomes a lap dancer and then a performer, and discovers--gasp!--there's a whole world of sex and violence involved with these things. Gershon is probably the best element in the film, playing Berkley's bisexual rival for the big spotlight on stage. Joe Eszterhas was well overpaid for writing this howler, and director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) should have known better than to take it seriously. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Production Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer
Teaser Trailer
None
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Production Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer
Teaser Trailer
None
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I got hold of the Dutch Uncut Blu Ray, what can I say? It's my favourite trashy movie in glorious HD.
The picture and sound are great, and the movie is just as entertaining as ever.
Not sure what makes it uncut, but it has plenty of overly gratuitous nudity, and the funniest sex scene in movie history.
There are no extras at all on the disc, but you do get to enjoy one of the worst acting performances in cinematic history, pure gold!
The picture and sound are great, and the movie is just as entertaining as ever.
Not sure what makes it uncut, but it has plenty of overly gratuitous nudity, and the funniest sex scene in movie history.
There are no extras at all on the disc, but you do get to enjoy one of the worst acting performances in cinematic history, pure gold!
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Showgirls is an excellent cult film. Its filled with terrible dialogue delivered by actors in performances that they'd surely rather forget. Paul Verhoeven - usually a top notch director - fails spectacularly with his fourteenth film and the script by Joe "I Don't Know Anything About Women" Eszterhas is laughable.
It stars Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone (She's alone in the world, get the joke?), an ambitious young woman who has dreams of becoming a famous dancer in Las Vegas. Berkley's performance is something else. She smiles, she pouts, she shouts, she screams, she gyrates, she vomits, and often all of the above in the same scene. She is joined by Gina Gershon and Kyle MacLachlan, both similarly hamming it up to the extreme as Berkley's fellow dancer and the "Entertainment Director" respectively. Glenn Plummer also waves goodbye to any credibility in his performance as Berkley's quasi-love interest.
From reading this review you may wonder why I have given it five stars. The reason is this: You will never be more entertained in your life. It is hilarious, outrageous, ridiculous, completely unrealistic, shallow, stupid and ultimately a misunderstood masterpiece of everyone involved in the production doing everything wrong in perfect synchronicity.
The complete ignorance of all involved is obvious if you take a look at the Special Features on the DVD. If you watch the short making-of programme, the film is described by Eszterhas as "an all out rock and roll musical" which is unbelievable. First of all, the choreography of the dance scenes at the 'Goddess' show is ridiculous, there is no rock music in the film (apart from the song played over the end credits) and there are no songs in the film at all - so how is it a musical, you may ask?
A great piece of trash, go on, come over to the dark side!
It stars Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone (She's alone in the world, get the joke?), an ambitious young woman who has dreams of becoming a famous dancer in Las Vegas. Berkley's performance is something else. She smiles, she pouts, she shouts, she screams, she gyrates, she vomits, and often all of the above in the same scene. She is joined by Gina Gershon and Kyle MacLachlan, both similarly hamming it up to the extreme as Berkley's fellow dancer and the "Entertainment Director" respectively. Glenn Plummer also waves goodbye to any credibility in his performance as Berkley's quasi-love interest.
From reading this review you may wonder why I have given it five stars. The reason is this: You will never be more entertained in your life. It is hilarious, outrageous, ridiculous, completely unrealistic, shallow, stupid and ultimately a misunderstood masterpiece of everyone involved in the production doing everything wrong in perfect synchronicity.
The complete ignorance of all involved is obvious if you take a look at the Special Features on the DVD. If you watch the short making-of programme, the film is described by Eszterhas as "an all out rock and roll musical" which is unbelievable. First of all, the choreography of the dance scenes at the 'Goddess' show is ridiculous, there is no rock music in the film (apart from the song played over the end credits) and there are no songs in the film at all - so how is it a musical, you may ask?
A great piece of trash, go on, come over to the dark side!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I've always loved this movie. It's a clever pastiche of the Las Vegas dance clubs - totaly over the top and all the more enjoyable for it. Sadly, many do not agree and so it's never really been given the proper treatment on Blu-Ray (or indeed DVD).
It's worth understanding that there are two versions of this movie. The first is the original - which runs at 132 minutes and is the screening Paul Verhoven intended us all to see. But (not surprisingly in my opinion) he ran into trouble with the US and European censors from the outset and was obliged to trim out some of the more graphic sex and violence. This resulted in a slightly shorter running time of just 128 minutes and is the version most of us have seen in UK cinemas and TV screenings.
The version on offer here is the full "uncut" 132 minutes, so you are free from jump cuts and continuity errors (at last...)
However, that's the limit of any applied restoration. In practice this looks and sounds like a below average DVD. The picture is good, but hardly up to Hi-Def standards and the only soundtrack on offer is English DTS (no HD audio of any kind). Dutch subtitles are pre-set and there are no menus with which to switch them off so you will need to rely on your remote control to toggle them out. There are no chapter selection options either, or indeed anything in the way of extras. You get the movie - nothing more and nothing less.
I've watched and enjoyed - but remain a little dissappointed at the lack of TLC.
It's worth understanding that there are two versions of this movie. The first is the original - which runs at 132 minutes and is the screening Paul Verhoven intended us all to see. But (not surprisingly in my opinion) he ran into trouble with the US and European censors from the outset and was obliged to trim out some of the more graphic sex and violence. This resulted in a slightly shorter running time of just 128 minutes and is the version most of us have seen in UK cinemas and TV screenings.
The version on offer here is the full "uncut" 132 minutes, so you are free from jump cuts and continuity errors (at last...)
However, that's the limit of any applied restoration. In practice this looks and sounds like a below average DVD. The picture is good, but hardly up to Hi-Def standards and the only soundtrack on offer is English DTS (no HD audio of any kind). Dutch subtitles are pre-set and there are no menus with which to switch them off so you will need to rely on your remote control to toggle them out. There are no chapter selection options either, or indeed anything in the way of extras. You get the movie - nothing more and nothing less.
I've watched and enjoyed - but remain a little dissappointed at the lack of TLC.
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