Review of Salsa (1988) by Diana S — 08 Mar 2004

Oh man, what a bore. I've always loved [b]Dirty Dancing[/b], that movie is a cult of its own. But [b]Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights[/b] gets not even close to it, it's so far from being anything I really want to watch. I didn't even finish watching the movie. Not only did the acting suck ass, but also the dialogues were so bad. It wasn't meant to be a comedy, I guess, but I just had to laugh at the dialogues and the acting. And almost cried, too. Like when all people dance in the club, and it just looks like a bunch of people messing and moving around in weird positions, it's really not exciting at all. But the leading actress appears and stares at the dancing crowd and her eyes almost pop out in excitement, and I just kept wondering - [i]what is so exciting about that kind of dance, it looks crap[/i]. And I wondered whether she was probably suffering from hallucinations. I mean, the dance in the old [b]Dirty Dancing[/b] movie was really cool, I loved it. But the new movie - I just didn't bother. Then the dialogues...

[i]In the car...[/i].

[i]Girl: "I was enjoying the dancing."[/i].

[i]Boy: "You... you were very hot." (pretends to giggle)[/i].

[i](Girl starts giggling, too)[/i].

How lame is that kind of conversation? Just made me laugh. And I still can't remember any hot dance. Maybe it was just me, but I don't know what any of these people in the movie were on about. Really, a total mess to someone who's always loved the original [b]Dirty Dancing[/b] movie. Why did they have to take away all the glory with that kind of sequel? They had so many years to think up something great. But this is what we got. Brarrr. Not even the soundtrack was good - just another total bore. I bought the original soundtrack and still listen to it nowadays. While I hope [b]Havana Nights[/b] will be forgotten very soon. Please forget there was a sequel.

[color=black][b]EDIT:[/b][/color] Oh man, I'm just doing my reviews reading on the movie, like I always do as soon as I wrote my own review, and I just had to laugh again, many people seem to have thought and felt the exact same like I did. :rotten: