Yeah that’s right, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights. Got a problem
with that? I have seen virtually all the teen dance movies going – the best is
clearly Step Up 2: The Streets, which
has absolutely on competition. However, Dirty
Dancing 2: Havana Nights is awesome, albeit in an entirely different way.
The dancing is not all that spectacular. The plot is a hideous mess of West Side Story and ham-fisted attempts
at political engagement (viva la revolution!).
The dialogue becomes worse with every line: the final voice-over is a brazen
display of unforgivably crass scriptwriting. Most cheesy and distracting of all
is the score, which occasionally morphs into an acoustic guitar version of “I
Had the Time of My Life”. The elements are all so atrocious that they are
enormously and delightfully entertaining. In sum, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights is the No Retreat, No Surrender of dance movies. Recommendations do not
come much higher than that.
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