Coyote Ugly
What the pro's think!!!!!!
These are extracts from reviewers giving their views on the film and in some cases on Adam's performance - click the titles to visit the pages and see the full reviews.
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Garcia is a better bet for breakthrough star, channeling more charisma than that other handsome young Aussie of the summer, Heath Ledger.
Dark Horizons
Aussie Adam Garcia actually plays an Australian character, and he's wonderful: Laconic and heartfelt. It's a nice performance.
Variety
Garcia is the real find here, delivering an easy, breezy performance that will guarantee him some heart-throb status.
Hot Aussie Adam Garcia as their chemistry--and his pecs--give the ladies something to drool about, too.
Kevin, a struggling... well, we're not quite sure what he wants to be. But he's a nice enough bloke played by Australian actor Adam Garcia (Bootmen).
Australian actor Adam Garcia, as Violet's boyfriend and guide to bohemian New York, is both charming and aware of his charm, but the self-consciousness almost seems in character. To his credit, he is a worthy representative of handsome male benevolence in a movie in which every other guy is a lust-ridden slob or John Goodman.
Studly young Australian (is there any other kind?) named Kevin O'Donnell (Adam Garcia). He's a burger flipper who's a lot cooler than the burger flipper of "Flashdance,
Garcia is good-looking and athletic, so you have no trouble believing he could go for $250 at an auction. The edges of his character are extraordinarily soft; he's a little too good to ring true. But the guy has charm and, what the hell, the movie is a fantasy.
Adam Garcia who, as her studmuffin beau, is capable of holding a formulaic type of charm from time to time as he goes about wooing the reluctant Violet
A free-spirited Australian hunk and short-order cook (Adam Garcia) with a mysterious past. The chemistry between Perabo and Garcia is tender and winning
plucky Aussie hunk (Adam Garcia, the movie's lone burst of beefcake),
Piper Perabo, who already used "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" to prove she can't act, solidifies it here. Adam Garcia, on the other hand, has some charm about him and does what he can to make things palatable.
She meets Kevin (Adam Garcia) mistaking him for a club owner. Blah, blah, blah, they fall in love and push each other to confront their personal issues.
Kevin O'Donnell (Adam Garcia), a pretty-boy chef who's likewise frustrated by her lack of ambition. Despite his Irish surname, Kevin is an Aussie, a background Garcia signifies by delivering his every line as if he were the voice-over in an Outback TV ad
Garcia's extravagant smile and boyish perkiness grow tiresome after a while; he's a personable fellow, but seems to think he's far more charming than he actually is.
It's pure Bruckheimer-all surface and no depth.
Make more movies like this. They don't have to be smart. They don't need to make me think. They just need to entertain me and make me tingle in all the right places. Is that so much to ask?
A movie that's the ''follow your dream'' equivalent of singing karaoke along with a DVD of ''Flashdance
Thanks to Susan, Emily, Jules and Randie for their contributions to this page.
