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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

SnoopyStyle It's 1958, high school senior Katey Miller (Romola Garai) follows her family (John Slattery, Sela Ward, Mika Boorem) to pre-revolutionary Cuba. They're staying in a fancy exclusive hotel. She bumps into local waiter Javier Suarez (Diego Luna) and eventually befriends him.There are great actors at work here. I love the location shoot in Puerto Rico. The story is strictly fantasy cheese. It doesn't have the fun and charm of the original namesake. It's better than expected but not anything great. The one thing that does stand out is that Romola Garai is quite a big tall gal. Diego Luna is barely taller than her, and he's definitely skinnier. It's a different feel to the franchise.

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.

brianmartin101 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