Lap Dancing (1995) Reviews

• Not about indigenous people of Scandinavia

  rlcsljo2002-09-02

  My jaw almost dropped when I saw this film--The film actually delivered on what was implied in the title and more! Except for some fairly straight forward background material: Small town girl from Kansas, really Omaha, can't get arrested as an actress, so her friend gets her a job in a strip / lap dancing bar. Lo and behold, while in the club, about 25 - 33 percent of the time, a bunch of gorgeous, silicone enhanced girls are either lap dancing or stripping, mostly topless and in thongs, sometime nude! This movie is billed as a "Flash Dance for the sensuous nineties". But not surprisingly, virtually no originality is shown in any of the dance / strip routines--although the level of staging and performance is surprisingly above par for a film at this apparent budget level. It is more of a "Flesh Dance for the vacuous nineties". I do look forward to seeing more from this production company, as they show a little bit more sophistication in editing out sex scenes to avoid the dreaded NC-17(R).

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• A Mike Sedan film.

  BlackJack_B2001-12-21

  Mike Sedan, who does cameos in all his films, is Russ Meyer without all the pain, suffering, and death. He sets all his films in L.A. like John Waters sets them in Baltimore. Whatever... Lap Dancing is a mighty tame movie to me, because I live in a city that has clubs more graphic than this one. Lorissa McComas (sexy woman, no talent, man made puppies) plays a Mid-West transplant who wants to be an actress. Frustrated by failed attempts at winning movie roles, her room mate (Tane McClure) tells her that she should check out the gentlemen's club that she works at for "inspiration". She works there for a week and discovers its seedy underbelly. With all sorts of the usual tricks in the softcore genre, and a few new ones, Lap Dancing does a pretty good job of depicting the real world. From the opening credits of city life on a L.A. street, to a dancer prostituting herself, to another dancer who has an abusive boyfriend, it's no fairy tale like Striptease was. Sadly, the acting is awful and the script was written by someone who uses "politically correct prose". However, the dance numbers on the stage are pretty good and they use some neat original music for them. Yet another pointless nudie, but it has some value. Mike Sedan's "Insatiable Wives" and "Mischievious" are also highly recommended as well.

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• EXCELLENT STRIPPER FILM

  bazdol2000-12-28

  One of the best stripper films I've ever seen with the charming Lorissa McComas showing off her well endowed self. Also a fine exotic dancer scene with Kim Dawson. The film is somewhat marred by having the male lead as a blind guy, a dumb gimmick indeed. Does he get his kicks out of smelling the girls do their routines?

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• GREAT EROTIC DANCER FILM

  bazdol2000-04-22

  Why so many commentators see this film as worthless and a "turn off" eludes me. It has probably the best erotic dance (stripper) scenes I have ever seen on film. Kim Dawson is just awesome in her dance scene

• Backstage peek at strip club doesn't quite work

  react1051999-09-15

  This is the story of Angie, an innocent in H'wood who, in order to shed her inhibitions and win a starring role in a sexy movie, must learn to shed her clothes in a strip club. This movie should not be used as a recruiting tool for ingenues. Tane' McClure and Kim Dawson are the two strippers who help Angie (McCommass, as lovely a young lady as has ever been naked on screen) discover her unrealized erotic potential. Both tend to go over the top a bit, but given the surreal nature of their characters and the situation, why not? Director Mike Sedan gives them their head (that's a horse term, not a sex term, folks); he's busy making sure the camera catches all the action. And there's plenty of it, onstage, backstage, in the club patrons' laps (thus the title), out in the alley, in a grocery store on the way home, and at whatever other locales I've forgotten. Taken at its own level, this is a well-made cautionary tale about what you have to do to succeed in show biz. The fact that it's balderdash doesn't matter.

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