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  Review by Julius ★★★★½ 27

  The people who think this is dumb are the same people who think Inception is smart.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 3

  "They don't wanna fuck a Penny…they wanna fuck a Hope."

  Misunderstood even by some of its defenders as merely a satire of American greed and attendant dreams of stardom when its true target is the apparatus that sells those dreams to an endlessly returning audience of narcissistic suckers. All the more brilliant due to Verhoeven's staunch, heroic refusal to pander to good taste, not to mention the empathy he maintains for his lead character without ever letting her off the hook for her own culpability in the poisoned fantasy. That this movie continues to be "embraced" as unintentional camp (whether great camp -- and there's absolutely no reason this can't be that on top of everything else -- can ever really be an accident is another argument altogether) is only another example of Verhoeven exploiting peoples' ability to see whatever they need to.

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  Review by Joe ★★★★½ 8

  The Rosetta Stone for understanding this entire movie (if not life itself) is the shot of Elizabeth Berkley angrily slamming a ketchup bottle on the table and causing a bright red stream of ketchup to come flying out.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 9

  "guys, we gotta toss a monkey scene in here somewhere"

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★½ 52

  I remember my first time in Vegas. It was an unexpected trip. My business partner suggested we scope out a trade show that we were considering exhibiting at the next year. As it was 1991, there was no Web to lean on. Flipping through the ‘Out Of Town Hotels’ section of the yellow pages, I started phoning the Las Vegas entries. The trade show was beginning the next day, and hotels with vacancies were charging a princely sum. I then landed on The Stardust. $49 a night; Bingo.

  The Vegas of 1991 was just beginning its transformation. The higher end resorts that had been quoting me $500 a night rates eschewing the neon and flashing animated cladding for more austere…

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  Review by Paul (Douglas Reese) ★★★★★ 5

  My fiancé was expecting a movie about a stripper with one whole leg as a body. The poster misled him, and he was severely disappointed.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ 3

  ERY'BODY GOT AIDS AND SHIT

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  Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★½ 5

  The IMDB trivia page for this movie says that the only time the actresses felt uncomfortable was during some of the monkey scenes because they kept staring at their boobs, so jot that down.

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  Review by Evan ★★★★★ 10

  Spring Breakers meets Black Swan.

  Most people dismiss Showgirls as shallow trash or as a film that is "so bad its good". However, I feel the exact opposite. I honestly view this as a great film. In my eyes it's a misunderstood classic. By the way, I thought Elizabeth Berkley's performance was fantastic. Seriously this is a new favorite of mine.

  If you don't like this movie, you must not own any Versays ;)

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  Review by Branson Reese 5

  For years everybody told me this was one of the worst movies ever made. Fools. All of you. Even -no- especially those of you who like it condescendingly. You're giving notes to a bird in flight as you stand there on the ground paying rent.

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 1

  Versayce.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 4

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  "Bye, darlin'."

  Not so-bad-it's-good, not mere camp, not a simple piece of trash, but an adventurous, invigorating American movie. And about as honest as they come.