User Reviews

Thank god I am not a lesbian. If I were and these were the girls I had to choose from I would kill myself.

I am a straight man but I know a lot of Lesbian women and they are nothing like the women portrayed in this film. The dialog is idiotic and shallow. We are never quite sure if the actress even believe they are gay. What is strange is they take a few shots at guys but end up acting like the worst stereotypical male in the universe, which actually comes close to very few of the lesbians I know.

The music is so bad in the film but you actually look forward to it after a while just as an escape from the inane dialog. You almost expect to see a disclaimer at the end of the movie saying "No lesbians were used in the writing, directing, production, acting or anything at all"

I have not talked to my lesbian friend in a few months but I will ask them if they have seen this movie and discuss it with them if they have. Being a straight male I may have missed the point of this movie but I don't think so. Black, white, male, female, straight, gay or bi a bad film is a bad film and this film reeks.

Do yourself a favor if you see it in the video store don't rent it. Do a favor for everyone else and hide it so no one else can rent it either. It will be thankless but good for your karma.

I am 23 years old and just hitting my movie-watching prime (if one exists). What I mean is that I am finally able to watch movies and appreciate them for what they are. I have only been able to do this for a year or two. So, I flip around Showtime at 1:30 AM and see a movie called "Bar Girls"; could be soft-core porn! Hit the info; lesbian soft-core porn! Neither, but before I realized it, I was hooked in. If I looked at the entire work as a satire (which I did), it was phenomenal.

After reading on this site that the playwright is pretty philosophical, I was a little disappointed that she probably wanted this movie to be taken seriously, but not so much so that it detracted from the movie for me. I could have done without Loretta's diatribes and the frustrating displays of anger, but all in all, this was not poorly acted. In addition, the comedy level was pretty high. I mean, as a heterosexual male, it is great to know that lesbians have hate sex too (I hope that doesn't qualify as a spoiler. This is my first time posting here, and I figure 11 years is long enough for an obscure movie). Corny ending, but the bar scene prior to the ending was hilarious.

Sam

An okay film about the denizens of a lesbian bar in some city (definitely not New York) where the beautiful Loretta, a progressive, intellectual comic book writer falls for a newcomer to the bar, the equally beautiful Rachel. Who seems to be a little younger than Loretta. Everything seems to be going alright for the two lovers, until a more masculine lesbian starts to get the hots for. Rachel, and enters into a struggle with Loretta to take Rachel away from her. She tries everything she can think of to try and win Rachel over, but nothing seems to work until Loretta surprisingly invites her over her house to plead with her to leave her and Rachel alone. They start drinking a little and Carmilla Griggs, who plays the more masculine woman, tells Loretta that she loves Rachel and she won;t give up till she becomes her girlfriend and leaves Loretta. Ms. Griggs shoots a few baskets, and Loretta seems to be watching her admiringly, and takes the basketball into the house followed by Ms, Griggs.

Loretta finds out that Ms. Griggs is a cop, and starts putting her down for upholding the white, male, patriarchy over people like her. Ms. Griggs senses something strange about what she's saying and tells Loretta that She is no white male. Loretta responds that she sure fought with her like a white male at the bar over Rachel, and Ms. Griggs realizes that she's found Loretta's character flaw and senses that Loretta is turned on by her, and begins to seduce Loretta!

At first Loretta tries to deny the aggressive woman's advances, but Ms. Griggs refuses to give in, and Loretta can't resist her anymore and lets the aggressive woman make love to her while she pleads that she hates her!

In the next scene Loretta admits to her friends that Ms. Griggs has taken Rachel away from her by letting herself be seduced by her rival.

This is the highlight of the film, and the only other film that has a scene like this was "X. Y and Zee", where Liz Taylor uses the same strategy to take Michael Caine away from Susannah York. That film wisely ends on that (off camera) scene. But Bar Girls ruins the drama by returning to its lackluster plot, and kind of peters out.