You Don't Nomi Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I was rather intrigued by the fandom around ‘Showgirls’, I was quite eager to check this documentary. In fact, the day before, I did rewatch ‘Showgirls’, especially since I saw it only once and it was such a long time ago. However, to be honest, I still thought it was a rather lame and boring erotic B feature, no more and no less. Concerning the documentary itself, well, it was definitely a decent attempt to rehabilitate one of the most vilified movies ever produced but, to be honest, it wasn’t really much more than that. First of all, they didn’t focus only on ‘Showgirls’, they actually gave a whole retrospective on Paul Verhoeven’s work. I mean, it didn’t really bother me since I’m a big fan of the Dutch master and I have seen all his movies but I thought this approach was too broad regarding the actual main subject. Sure, Verhoeven’s career was and still is actually quite fascinating, much more than this massive turkey. However, to show all his other (much better) movies and to argue that such a movie master couldn’t possibly deliver a completely worthless piece of sh*t was not really a strong approach. On top of that, in less than 80 mins, you get a whole bunch of other theories (some interesting, some others seriously far-fetched), feelings, views, usually vastly contradicting each other and, eventually, the end-result did feel pretty random. Anyway, to conclude, even if this documentary didn’t change my views on this rather lame erotic cult-classic, it is still worth a look, especially if you are intrigued by one of the weirdest movie fandoms ever.