Striptease (1996)

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Don't listen to the negative reviews

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Welcome to the Eager Beaver. All the stars have aligned and the Demi Moore miracle is upon us.Demi, stripping as Erin Grant, in Striptease, to Annie Lennox, is life. Beautiful, beautiful, hot life. Demi looks so, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo f'ing hot in this IT IS insane! She's so bad and Demi IS 1 of the most spectacular beautiful women of this beautiful life we live.! MONEY CANT BUY IT baaaby sex can't buy it oooh baby drugs can't buy it ooh little baby money can't buy it !Her fake tits look great. Demi has the best fake tits money can buy, the best fake boobs I've ever seen on any lady with my own 2 eyes. I love 'em, so.Striptease has a great ensemble cast led by Burt and his funny character with Rhames and Patrick and sweet little Rumer. Armand Assante is perfect for his part, quietly.Come 2 me run 2 me do & be done with me come come come.. Dying is easy it's watching Moore strip in her black panty thong OH DEAR GOD.. that makes life hard.Striptease is a genius movie, very likable. All the other girls who play strippers are super hot in this too especially that sweet tiny blonde.Demi's breaking boundaries in 1996. Moore's a major megababe. I wish Moore was in this movie more. Striptease's still really good though, even when Demi's not on screen, or naked.I love this movie it's 1 of my favorite movies because Demi is more beautiful than God and she's smoking hot. I love you, Demi Moore.Strippers get a bad wrap, because of crazy ass old ass politicians.Striptease is genuinely comical/really funny, with great animals. Demi's really hot. I cannot wait to see her strip again, but I will. I love your face and your eyes, Dem, haha, your hair and your body, your skin.Striptease is the best movie to masturbate to, thank you very much. I love Demi Moore. She's mesmerizing, an angel, and she steals the show.I want Moore, I mean more. I love the scene where she takes off her towel listening to Annie. OMG! It's always good for a chubby because Demi's so f'ing hot in it and wet. I respect her. Her ass is so amazing, oooooooh myyyyyyyy.Striptease has brilliant, compelling doses of family drama. I give it a true rating of an 8, mostly attributed to you know who, Pandora Peaks, no, just kidding, the perfect and beautiful Demi Moore. She looks great. I want to see her naked again.The villains suck in this movie, unlike Demi.Demi Moore stripping in the spotlight on stage in a purple tiny thong with a pole and a bunch of super lucky guys watching to Little Bird is gorgeous especially the beginning of it. It makes me want to cry, it makes me want to sit right down and cry. I LOVE her body. I can only imagine her sweet essence.Demi gives a real riveting all-around top performance fitting for the film. She's got the look, and the passion, and tenderness, and the moves. Thanks, Demi, you black haired goddess o m g you're so beautiful. I love you, Demi.Striptease is the hottest f'ing movie ever.

The movie is good. A classic, because is aways remembered. It is only missundestood. It is not erotic movie. A good movie.

A former FBI secretary now turned stripper gets involved in a dangerous high-level game which involves a soon to be elected congressman. In order to regain the right to take care of her daughter, helped by a determined detective, she becomes an inside man who must uncover crimes of dangerous people.It's an average movie, with a below average story, which is as superficial as it is predictable. The actors, except the main one which is OK, do an average job, consolidating the overall low-budget feel of this movie. As upsides, it is very sensual, the main character being a stripper at a famous club, and funny through the characters' stupidity. It manages to not make you yawn until the end which is a good thing but it's still an average movie in every aspect.

While this movie was pretty known in the 1990s, for being one of the several movies where Demi Moore appears topless, it's probably more memorable, today for having been panned by the critics and winning several Razzie Awards, including "Worst Picture of 1996" than anything else. After all, not a lot of Millennials, might know, who Demi Moore is, since she pretty much, barely acts, these days. Directed, produced, and written by Andrew Bergman, Striptease tells the story of Erin Grant (Demi Moore), former FBI secretary/single mother who has turned to stripping to earn enough money to gain legal custody of her young daughter, Angela (Rumer Willis), while also finding herself, matching wits with a lustful United States Congressman, David Dillbeck (Burt Reynolds), and his powerful corporate backer, Malcolm Moldowsky (Paul Guilfoyle) in order to get her job back with the FBI. Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, the movie is somewhat directionless. It doesn't know, if it wants to be, a political thriller, or a sex comedy. There were a lot of pointless scenes that really goes, nowhere that weren't exciting, nor funny. If that wasn't bad, enough, the plot for this movie doesn't make much logic in real-world sense. Honestly, what type of a judge, allows a criminal with a record, visitation rights, much less sole custody, because the other one is a stripper? I get that, the book explains it by saying that the local cops buried Erin's ex-husband, Darrell (Robert Patrick)'s record when he agreed to be an informant, however, that probably wouldn't happen in real life as well. I have to say, there is a huge difference, between the film version of 'Striptease' and the 1993 novel of the same name, by Carl Hiaasen, as well, despite some critics, playing the screenplay is pretty faithful to the book, which it is not. One of the biggest difference is that, the environmental message has been left out. There is little to no mention of the subplot about the plutocracy of sugar growers in Florida, and the exorbitant subsidies regularly granted to them by the U.S. Congress. Another big change that the film did, is how a lot of supporting characters of the novels were either demoted to nameless cameos, or cut from the film, all together. A good example of this, is the character, Joyce Mizner, who played, a semi big part, as the fiancée of the man, Dilbeck attacks, but as of my knowledge, doesn't appear in the film. Honestly, whatever, did happen to her? Another change from the novel, is what happen to Erin's ex-husband, Darrell toward the end. I get that, there were concerns that the ending of the film, being too dark, not comical enough; but all of these rewrites and reshoots, did nothing, but cause delays & make the ending, somewhat anticlimax. It wasn't good. I get that, audience didn't want, Burt Reynolds to be, a violent villain, but how can, Reynolds show that he is a good actor, if he only plays over the top comical characters. It really does limited his acting range and somewhat typecast him. Because of that, I really couldn't get behind, this cartoony Congressman character, at all. It was really, nothing new from the actor. Not only that, but his character does a lot of annoying, and somewhat too gross & pervy things, I really didn't want to see. All of the jokes, with him, really does fall flat. It was a little too, much for me to take, much like Robert Patrick's character, who I also easily equally dislike. Honestly, if there was one character, that I somewhat like, from this film, it has to be the bouncer, Shad (Ving Rhames). While Ving Rhames's acting is mediocre, at best, with his stone-cold expression. At least, he's one of the only actors in the film, that didn't make a fool of themselves, along with the other, being Paul Guilfoyle & Armand Assante as FBI agent, Al Garcia. Then, there is Demi Moore, whom dour acting in this, is mostly meh. It's just so jarring and awkward to see, her single-parent plot, be, taken so serious, compare everything else. It felt like too different types of movies, here, being mixed together. Maybe, if she had more flair, it could had help the movie, but it really wouldn't matter. Her character was so badly written, so I can't say, she's the worst thing about this film, because she's clearly not. Her sex appeal is the only one that keeps this movie from falling apart and somewhat marketable. Still, Demi Moore kinda ruin movie's much-advertised nudity and eroticism, by promoting this film, looking like a masculine butch than a femme woman. I get that, she was filming 1997's 'G.I Jane' at the time. However, her muscle bound frame and bald head were really distracting, and made people, more interested in finding out, what 'G.I Jane' was about, than what 'Striptease' was telling us. No wonder, why this movie failed at the box office. It also didn't help that this film was association with the previous year's film about nude dancers, 1995's 'Showgirls'. Both films were highly criticize, for its sleazy premise, and because of that, some critics were a little too judgmental on the subject matter. In my opinion, I don't think the movie is the worst. The stripteases sequence are choreographed to present the strippers as seasoned pros, indifferent to their nudity and disdainful of their customers. However, due to the awkward humor and somewhat unlikeable characters. I can somewhat agree. This film is not good. It's a movie in limbo.