Dirty Dancing

Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual... the sweet sleeper of a hot season. [21 Aug 1987]

The dancing itself, especially the dirty dancing, choreographed by Kenny Ortega, looks very contemporary, or, at least, as contemporary as "Saturday Night Fever," but it has a drive and a pulse that give the filim real excitement. [21 Aug 1987, p.C3]

The script is full of off-the-wall lines that take you by surprise but are perfect. [21 Aug 1987]

A warm-heared picture with some hot dancing, some B movie class consciousness, lots of nostalgia and lots of cliches. [3 Sept 1987, p.17(E)]

Motivations are murky, the dialogue is flat. But the movie never lets too much plot get between the dance numbers. [21 Aug 1987]

But 'neath its candy-coated shell lies several solid grains of truth -- not to mention some fab choreography, a solid-gold title, and a couple of pristine examples (in Swayze and Grey) of what is meant by the term "career-making performance."

The filmmakers rely so heavily on cliches, on stock characters in old situations, that it's as if they never really had any confidence in their performers.

Damn, it's been 25 years since Dirty Dancing was released. Maybe I could really dance to Jennifer Grey's victory on Season 10 of Dancing With the Stars right about now. And I hope Patrick Swayze is sending big smiles in heaven and reunite with Grey one last time. I miss the 80's, what a great film.

Definitely packed full of dancing but does well on the backs of its leads looks and charm.

An ok movie. A lot of cheesy parts that I didn't like. I did like the dancing and the love story. I guess it was better at that time.

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical drama/romance starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey... I'm not going to tell you the other actresses or actors names because it's irrelevant to this review as I don't need them to basically sum the whole movie up. To keep it sweet if there is any story at all or plot in Dirty Dancing it's lost in the music and all the cheesey dance scenes, some of which are good plus there's romance so this makes Dirty Dancing feel like there's no story, just a bunch of losers and hoodlums seducing each other, lusting after women, cheating on each other, having sex with a huge amount of romantic songs and music added. There's also the subject of trust in the movie and betrayal and Patrick Swayze as a dance instructor and some very nice sexy scenes between Penny (Cynthia Rhodes) and Jennifer Grey but usually this film only delivers naughty dance moves and music as an excuse to have sex and nudity in it then it feels like a family movie and looks like a family dance movie then all the sex happens and it feels all over the place. Very strange mixture and I don't personally like this movie as it's dull and lifeless to me but some may enjoy it.

Moué, à ses débuts le beau gosse Patrick Swayze tournait des trucs sacrément cons et enchaînait les rôles de bellâtre rebelle avec plus ou moins de réussite... On le sait très capable et le voir se ridiculiser ainsi est particulièrement affligeant. On est ici très loin de Point Break et de son rôle de gourou voyou (rebelle encore une fois bien sûr) dans ce Dirty Dancing et ses gesticulations contorsionnées plus ou moins connotées et clairement destiné au public adolescent avec un Flanby dans le ciboulot. Neuneu et cucul, on est effectivement en plein dedans (dans le Flanby), le tout sur la musique commerciale d'ascenseur des années 80 dont les morceaux choisis représentent certainement à merdeveille la soupe dégoulinante que les djeunzs de cette époque s'infusaient dans les esgourdes. Quant à Jennifer Beals, euh Grey pardon (on dirait des photocopies) je préférais la première dans le Flashdance parce qu'elle se bougeait bien plus le derrière et le reste (toujours très bien) et jactait beaucoup moins également, ce qui compensait la tronche légèrement trisomique de ces siamoises sur laquelle on était prêt à passer l'éponge. C'est décidément beaucoup plus difficile ici. En con-clusion, rien à sauver de cette danse sale, sinon que, comme le titre l'indique, ça sent pas bon.