Why it may be worth watching
- Dirty Dancing combines Drama and Romance elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Abigail Breslin, Colt Prattes, Sarah Hyland.
- Viewers currently rate it 5.5/10 from 454 votes.
Movie
Dirty Dancing
A musical re-imagining
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family.
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Cast
Abigail BreslinFrances "Baby" Houseman
Colt PrattesJohnny Castle
Sarah HylandLisa Houseman
Nicole ScherzingerPenny Rivera
Tony RobertsMax Kellerman
J. Quinton JohnsonMarco
Shane HarperRobbie Gould
Trevor EinhornNeil Kellerman
Casper SmartBilly Kotsecki
Katey SagalVivian Pressman
Billy Dee WilliamsTito
Bruce GreenwoodDr. Jake Houseman
Debra MessingMarjorie Houseman
Viewing guide
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Who may enjoy it
Best suited to viewers looking for Drama, Romance.
Content notes
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Themes and topics
musicalremakecatskills1960sre-imagining
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Reviews
AusFemExternal review ·
**BAD, BAD, BAD!** (SPOILER)
You just can't help but compare this to the original. Johnny is no actor and Baby is no dancer.
The lipsync was so noticeble it was annoying.
The first scene back at staff quarters it looked like the dirty dancers were ready to jump into an orgy.
I don't really care about people's weight, but this Baby was too chunky to be a dancer (you couldn't half tell, much!)
Prattes is also stiff and seems to lack confidence. He certainly doesn't have the smoothness and grace of Swayze and his acting was wooden.
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**BAD, BAD, BAD!** (SPOILER)
You just can't help but compare this to the original. Johnny is no actor and Baby is no dancer.
The lipsync was so noticeble it was annoying.
The first scene back at staff quarters it looked like the dirty dancers were ready to jump into an orgy.
I don't really care about people's weight, but this Baby was too chunky to be a dancer (you couldn't half tell, much!)
Prattes is also stiff and seems to lack confidence. He certainly doesn't have the smoothness and grace of Swayze and his acting was wooden.
I really didn't care about the parents marital dramas. This was supposed to be a love story between Johnny and Baby.
Why did they completely destroy the last dance scene that was so iconic in the original.
And just to add icing to the cake, the final scene, Johnny and Baby do not end up together. I would have liked that to be left up to the imagination as in the original movie.
Dirty Dancing didn't need a remake.
This is one movie I won't be watching again.
Andre GonzalesExternal review ·
This is a remake of the original dirty dancing except it has better music. There's some better dancing too. My main issue with this movie is that the two main characters in my opinion don't mesh well together. They don't have good chemistry at all. Other then that I like the added scenes that were not in the original.
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