Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

A Disappointing Continuation

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I'll be brief. I waisted too much time watching this, so I won't waist even more writing a long review. I gave a star because I liked the Cuba song, but that's it. For the rest, such a bad bad bad... EVERYTHING: casting, choreography, acting, directing...etc etc... I wonder what Patrick Swayze had to do with this pathetic imitation of a wonderful memory. They could have picked up another actor, same category with the rest just to fit with their script and leave Patrick S. alone. It was very very disappointing. I could watch "Dirty Dancing", the original one, endlessly ... but this Havana thing... I made a big effort to resist watching it till the end... If you want to see a good movie, pick up the first Dirty Dancing. Simply like that.

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.

Romola Garai did a bad job on the American accents. Few times I could hear the British accent slip through. The scene on the beach where she tell Javier that he was making a different to his family, could hear the English accent coming through plus the scene when she telling Patrick Swayze she trying to feel free and dancing like an Iron board was bad. A few times she let slip up when trying American accent. The plot of the film was weak. The dancing was crap. I didn't like the mixing of modern music with the 1950s style setting that spoiled the movie. The ending of the movie was bad. The only good thing was the Cuban music in the film. As for Luna dancing skills he wasn't very convincing dancer since he and Romola only had ten week's lessons before shooting the movie. The other dancers in the movie showed up Luna lack of dancing skills

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights... really good!10/10 for sure... this movie is the perfect combination of beauty, Latino rhythms and passion!The dances, the music, the scene... everything is this movie makes you wanna 'do it' on the dance floor...Tha way they dance it's sexier than sex itself... and it's awesome to watch!If you get the chance... watch it 'coz the movie is great!As for the movie itself, maybe it isn't the best movie ever... but the actors, generally speaking are very good. The way the director Guy Ferland got the images of Havana, Cuba it's genius... in terms of the image... it's a beautiful movie.The plot is amazingly beautiful, but at the same time it could be better... I mean, why do a movie at the time of the Cuban revolution, if you're just not gonna develop the theme?!Anyway... everything combined... the movie is excellent... in a scale from 0 to 10, I give it a 20 for sure!!