shenli-23879 Fantastic music! The leading man is so cute, and a little shy, however I've really enjoyed this movie, especially obsessed with the cuba soul (music and dance)!

joakimfjellmann I have never had a worse cinematic experience than I had with this movie. You may think I am exaggerating to some degree, but assure you not, I am serious. This is possible one of the most clichéd, worst acted, worst written movies in all of cinematic history. Why this movie was even made is beyond me, but the people who made it deserved to be fired, burned at a stake and to be never let back into movie making. This movie literally caused me pain while I watched it. This can't even be considered a movie. This is a masterpiece. A masterpiece of failure. How do you manage to make something this bad? I sure have no idea.Think about this. This movie got greenlit. Someone pitched this movie to a studio, and they bought it. For real money!I should probably mention the plot of this movie. You can't really call it a plot though. It's more of what happens when literature dies, when all creativity is lost. It is so cliché filled that even a baby could predict the plot. It's about a generic ugly duckling girl who meets the man of her dreams when they move to Cuba during the crisis. Why they decided to place the plot there is beyond me, when this plot would work in literally every setting. Please, don't watch this movie. Save yourself from the pain that it will cause. If you have a copy, burn it.

Desertman84 Not a sequel!Not really a prequel!Then,what was it?Obviously,it was sort of a remake and a re-imagining. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights follows the blossoming love affair of young couple Katey and Javier against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution in 1958.It is a 2004 American musical romance film directed by Guy Ferland that is a "re-imagining" of the 1987 cult classic Dirty Dancing,that features Romola Garai and Diego Luna,is reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution.In the new Dirty Dancing movie,Katey is an American girl living in Cuba with her parents who meets Javier, a local. Javier takes Katey to a nightclub where he teaches her how to dance dirty Cuban-style. The two grow closer and closer, but when Castro takes over, Katey's parents decide to flee for the U.S., leaving Katey to make the ultimate decision. The movie tries to add Cuban flavor to a familiar plot but comes up with nothing more than a bubbling stew of clichés.Although the filmmakers would not want to admit it,it was simply a remake of the original cult classic.Truly,Dirty Dancing has become a brand name.This new film tries to capitalize on that one to provide the viewers the same old film that entertained movies back in the 1980's. But unfortunately,it comes up short.Tying the film together with the classic 1987 original is Patrick Swayze,who appears in a cameo which was both awkward and peculiar.The producers paid him millions for a less-than-five minute scene.It does nothing more but try to link this film to the original.Personally,it only verifies the obvious reasons why his film was made.It would be better for the new generation to rent the original rather than watch this poor man's version of it.

John Mitchell Now, I liked Dirty Dancing. I'm not ashamed to admit that. It had quotable lines like: "My God, it's Cleopatra! I feel like such an asp!" and "Oh, come on, ladies! God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em!" and, of course, the iconic "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" and the dancing was spot on. The plot had been seen before in a thousand incarnations, but I thought it wasn't bad. So, when a sequel was mentioned, I was quite intrigued. What was there left to say? Answer: Absolutely zippo! It's the same flippin' movie! Same characters (although with different names) and same plot. It's not even disguised, or if it was, it failed miserably. This is a clunky, needless rehash. It's pretty terrible. Nice to look at, admittedly and the soundtrack's not bad, but other than that, pointless.