lady victoria wasn't really hot

Nick was from Vegas. He probably saw more beautiful women in a month than most guys do in a lifetime. Victoria then had to have something more than looks to get Rob Freaking Lowe to go through such effort to get her. That was class, breeding, and royalty (and I guess an accent). Amanda did a fine job portraying those attributes IMO.

disagree

That woman was off the charts hot, I don't know what kind of ladies you're used to.

I'm with girlnamedsue. I believe the character needed to be a mix of class, charm, attractive, with enough distance from Nick's (Lowe's) station in life. She needed to be unattainable - more fantasy princess than real-life hotness. I thought Amanda Pays played her perfectly. Actually, I saw this movie twice in the theater specifically because she had that "it" factor. Fairly middle-of-the-road movie, but Amanda... she was Princess Diana-hot as far as I was concerned in the mid-80s. :-)

The audience for this film was teenaged girls who thought Rob Lowe was hot. They deliberately didn't want too hot a co-star so that the audience could imagine that Nick would have liked them better.