Lap Dancing

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).

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?

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.

'Lap Dancing' delivers the goods as indicated by the less than subtle title, but someone needed to remind writer / director Mike Sedan he was making a T&A flick and not an episode of 'This is Your Life'. Cliches are laid on so thick it's hard to not laugh at times. They don't get in the way of enjoying the gracious amount of female flesh here, but riveting story this is not. No stranger to this genre or taking their clothes off, Tane McClure and late model Lorissa McComas headline.

Small town girl Angie (McComas) wants to be a big time actress, but finds out it's not that easy in LA. Dejected after a failed audition roommate Claudia (McClure) offers up exotic dancing just like her. Best case scenario she'll develop life experience that may help acting and worst she'll pay the bills. After getting comfortable will this be Angie's ticket to something better or does it all end in failure.

In the plus column both McComas and McClure look great and know how to move their bodies. Through lap dances, stage show strips that actually show a degree of dance skill these two show off their assets as do other dancers at the club. Whenever that be on the main stage itself as focus or in any number of shots down on the floor working over customers. Of course those requisite simulated sex scenes are here of which Lorissa has two and another stripper has one. Happy to see muff make a few appearances here too (unrated cut?).

Low points include the opening montage as our main girl walks Hollywood boulevard complete with a soft rock ballad that's fairly sappy. Follow-up scene at the casting agency just as bad, but leave room for cringe dialog with fellow strippers. Particularly a piece when one is questioned why she hooks outside of the club for money and gets offended assuming she's being made out to be a cliche. After a brief pause she follows thru with her story confirming in fact she is a cliche. LOL!

In hindsight wish I had seen 'Lap Dancing' back in the 90's when it came out. This is a solid T&A pic that delivers a real level of heat. It probably would have blown my young mind back then. It's stuck with a vapid story that tried too hard to elicit real emotions, but even that's good for a laugh. If you ever wanted to know why a blind man would hang out at a titty bar this answers that question and Tane who has a legitimate background in singing gets the chance to do it here.

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