I thought Romola Garai (as Katey Miller) did a good job of keeping up an American accent. And even though the plot may have been unoriginal and predictable, nothing these days is really that new. The acting was good and the dancing was hot. So I was surprised when it turned out to be a better film that I expected. When I went in to see Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, I expected it to be really bad with all the bad reviews labelling it as corny and ridiculous etc. Reviewed by funky_little_angel 10 / 10 I enjoyed it If you want to watch cool Latin dancing, rent the 1980s Robby Rosa film "Salsa!" If you have a desperate need to get rid of four dollars and be bored for 90 minutes, rent "Dirty Dancing Havana Nights."
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If you want a movie with cool Cuban music, rent Buena Vista Social Club. (3) The pathetically weak attempt to illustrate the social pressures that led to the Cuban revolution left in me stitches.
I was worried that his hairpiece was going to come flying off during some of the spins. He was only 52 when this film came out, but he looks 65.
Second, the guy has had a really bad face-lift or something.
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He plays the gringo dance teacher who somehow teaches La Gringa Caliente how to loosen up and let guys touch her butt (he has a great line: "It can be very scary when someone touches that part of your body." who wrote this?). So much for the "Havana Nights." (2) For some God-awful reason, they throw Patrick Swayze back in! First of all, his character has no role, no background, and no reason to be there. But the city they are showing is San Juan, Puerto Rico! This might not be so obvious, but they show the most famous landmarks in San Juan, so that you cannot possibly even pretend the setting is Havana. The three features that pushed me from silent disappointment to derisive laughter were: (1) They make a big deal about "Old Havana," and show all of these landscape shots to impress the viewer. A lot of the dancing is just 2000's club freak-dancing. There is some cool music, but most of the music is just hip-hop with a Latin beat. But, even that goal is sadly disappointed here. None of that matters if what you want is to see cool Latin dancing and listen to cool Latin music, which was my goal. The plot is totally predictable, and the acting is downright bad. This leads her to fall madly in love with a waiter in her hotel, and enter a dance tournament with him. So, she moves to Havana and becomes mesmerized by afro-Cubano dancing. We don't know anything about our heroine (let's call her "La Gringa Caliente," because she eventually learns to loosen up and let strange men touch her butt), except that she gets good grades. Plot: our heroine is an American gringa whose family moves to pre-revolutionary Cuba because her dad's company promoted him to a position there. But, there is a lot of other stuff to gripe about in this film. My father was living in Havana in the early 1960s, and reports what seems pretty obvious: this film is full of a modern, highly stylized and "hip-hoppified" version of Cuban street dancing.
My biggest gripe with this movie is that the Latin dancing is not very genuine. Reviewed by el_nickster 1 / 10 Bogus Latin dancing film. Instead, I will say that John Slattery and Sela Ward tried their best with what they were given and the female costumes were stunning (although how she went from a prudish, sweater wearing introvert who had to borrow a "sexy" outfit from the maid to having a zillion low cut, less than demure dresses I'll never know!) So, now that I've done my best to say a little "something nice" and a whole lot of "anything at all"s, let me finish knowing that although I'll do my best not to take a piece of this movie with me, I think that, unfortunately, a little piece of it will always stay, well not in my heart, but definitely with me!! (INSERT EXTRA LONG PAUSE FILLED WITH TONGUE BITING SILENCE!!) So, I promise that I won't go on about the injustice done to a modern day classic by slapping it's title on an overly cliched and not well acted (or overly well danced) sloppy second and I won't recount how creepy Patrick Swazye is looking (when exactly did he see her dancing, is the creepy old guy stalking her!?!). Reviewed by kitkat9 2 / 10 If you can't say something nice.at least compliment the wardrobe!Īll good parents tell their children "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all." (Of course, most good parents also warn you about running all over a foreign country at all hours of the night, but I digress!) So.
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