Really Surprised!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I was channel surfing and hit HBO and struck upon this movie. I remembered this movie being in the theaters and that the title was certainly provocative. I think Demi Moore is a pretty good actress (although she seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth) so I suppose she decided to be a rebel and show off. The plot is so ridiculous and the characters so shallow, that it's hard not to laugh at times that are supposed to be serious. I found Burt Reynold's character to look sort of sick. The struggle for custody certainly wouldn't be helped by her choice of employment. But mostly, instead of being a bad movie that had an element of naughtiness, it is just plain dull. This is the woman who played a really cool character in "A Few Good Men."

Striptease is even worse than Showgirls. The stripping is awful, it is apparently heavily erotic - I didn't see anything erotic, the dancing is laughable, this has to be the most overrated erotic movie of all time. There is nothing, not a single relevant, serious, well choreographed erotic dance clip or sex scene. The story was turned into a very shallow script and the only thing that the directors cared about, was showing Demi Moore in a thong. Looking back, this is where Demi's career ended. This movie was so bad it evicted Demi from the movie industry that disabled her any opportunity for a serious role. Demi Moore will be remembered forever in Striptease, the woman who showed a few bits of her butt in embarrassing fashion. There's no substance, no intrigue, no real insight, no drama, if they wanted to do a sexually orientated movie, then they should have waived the rights to Hustler to make a porno movie. Who ever played in this movie never recovered from it in the aftermath. Even for $15M, it's not worth it. Oh and the viewer also wastes 2hrs of his time.

The 90's saw a lot of comedic fluff come and go, some memorable, others not so much, and some nestled in that perfect, laid back place just between. Striptease falls into that category; it's not that eventful, but provides an enjoyable diversion with the help of a cast that's clearly having fun, and a reliably solid lead performance from the always fantastic Demi Moore. Here she plays a stripper doing her vest to raise her young daughter (Rumer Willis, Demi's real life daughter with Bruce Willis) right without much money or help. Moore is gifted in the fact that she can play the nastiest chicks just as proficiently as the more innocent good girls, and every area of gray in between. Here she's clearly got a good heart and has been obligated to enter her line of work trough her devotion to her daughter. That and it makes for a sexy character quirk to keep audiences perked. She's also attempting to avoid her deadbeat, dim bulb ex husband Daryl (Robert Patrick) who steals wheelchairs and sells them lol. She gets caught up in a dangerous blackmailing situation when a cheerfully alcoholic congressman (Burt Reynolds) takes a shine to her one night, and is forced to turn to sympathetic cop Al Garcia (Armand Assante) and bodyguard Shad (Ving Rhames) for help. It's slight, breezy stuff and although it's not the greatest movie, I was charmed by Demi and the happy go lucky tone that it keeps up. Having her real daughter in the film also really strengthens their scenes with a dynamic that you wouldn't otherwise get.

Erin Grant (Demi Moore) loses her secretary job at the FBI due to her criminal former football star ex-husband Darrell (Robert Patrick) and loses custody of her daughter Angela (Rumer Willis) due to losing her job. She ends up stripping at the Eager Beaver trying to earn the money to appeal the decision. Congressman David Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds) becomes a big fan. Shad (Ving Rhames) is the bouncer. Her fan Jerry comes up with a scheme to use the congressman to get to the judge. Jerry is killed and police detective Al Garcia (Armand Assante) investigates.This is deliberately stupid and the characters are deliberately ridiculous. Yet Demi Moore is playing it completely serious which is the way that she's written. The movie is caught between a scary Lifetime movie and a wacky comedy. It is utterly unsustainable and none of it works. There are points where the movie is so bad that it borders on being funny. Mostly, it's cringe-worthy.