Belles de l'Ouest

I really liked this movie because I love horses and I like the actors in this movie. The storyline is simple and it is a great action chick flick. It has humor, adventure and a great overall girl bonding feel to it. It is the story of four friends who work in a parlor house who find themselves getting into trouble and having to go on the run. It is a story of the depth of friendship, strength, starting over, finding love and fighting back. Who said women can't kick some butt. A real feel good movie that is great to watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I would recommend adding this movie to one's movie collection. This is one movie where women are the heroes of the movie.

The idea of making a Western with women in the leading roles was an interesting one, but the casting was not exactly ideal. Don't get me wrong, the women in "Bad Girls" look great in their Western outfits, and they do a fine acting job as well, but only Drew Barrymore really convinces as a "bad girl" - you can see the fire of intensity burning in her eyes (Madeleine Stowe is a close second - at times she is convincingly defiant). And for a "feminist" Western, the women get mistreated rather frequently. But the biggest problem with this film is an unfocused script that never really takes off. "Bad Girls" was a big commercial and critical flop, but I don't think it's such a bad movie - it's just not as good as it should have been. (**)

Agreed, the acting could have been a bit less melodramatic but the actresses concerned did a good job when they weren't looking like supermodels.

The trick about it was "they had to look good" and they did look good. Madeleine Stowe's "Cool Cody", Andie McDowell's Elegant Eileen, Mary Stuart Masterson's "Arch Anita", and Drew Barrymore's tomboyish "Li'l Lilly", were fetching and gave rise to Girl Power credence.

I couldn't take my eyes off Barrymore who had come a long since E.T. and her drug/alcohol fuelled periods of teen angst/pain.

The fight at the end in the corral blew me away, those girls proved they could outshoot anything on two legs!!!

There should be a sequel!!!

4 out of 5

Despite all the negative criticism it's fun to watch these four leading ladies play badass girls in the West It turns westerns on an opposite, and trite, formula. Watch the four leading ladies kick ass on Western stereotypes Enjoy

This silly story of four sexy hookers on western take a ride in "the Quick and the Dead" which had more best reviews, Bad Girls use a sexual oriented direction, but not too seriously, surviving on this kind of sexploitation, one of best scenes when Drew Barrymore as Lilly tries seduces the Deputy to distract him to your mates have enough time to set free Eileen from the jail, best scene of the picture, the bad guy played by James Russo is a crap with all gang members, anyway the movie summarize on sexual appealliing from the four bad girls!!

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First watch: 1997 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6.25.