A routine Hollywood high school morality play.
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02/27/04
Havana Nights (2004)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:24
Rotten:81
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Cheesy, unnecessary remake.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set against the decadent glamour and escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights re-imagines the 1987 film phenomenon from an exciting new perspective. Havana Nights... [More]
Starring: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Patrick Swayze, John Slattery
Director: Guy Ferland
Reviews for Havana Nights
Solid dancing and a catchy soundtrack. But expect to have the time of your life again and you’ll most likely be disappointed.
02/27/04
Doesn't begin to live up to the giddy energy, romance and terrific dancing of its progenitor.
02/27/04
Moderately entertaining but droopy romance.
02/27/04
Looks good, sounds good and delivers what most Dirty Dancing fans are likely to expect.
02/27/04
Jansen might not be the best storyteller, but she's a wonderful choreographer, adapting the styles of her stars (both nondancers before the movie) to complement each other beautifully.
02/27/04
Garai and Luna, both appealing, never achieve combustion in the dance or elsewhere, and only very naive viewers will feel the itch so keenly scratched by Swayze and Grey in 1987.
02/27/04
You may not have the time of your life, but Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a perfectly serviceable date movie propelled by some electric dancing and tangy salsa music.
02/27/04
The characters are earnest, thin, dopey, and although the dancing is fine, the drama is flat.
02/27/04
At a certain point, you stop counting the plot elements lifted from the first DD and start clocking the times the movie dares to place them in a different order.
02/27/04
This film is too noble to get down and dirty.
02/27/04
Becomes laugh-out-loud awful, with dreadful, lame lines delivered painfully badly -- as if a different screenwriter and director had taken over for the movie's final act.
02/27/04
Has some good music and hot dancing -- filmed choppily -- but it completely lacks the magic of its predecessor.
02/27/04
The original film's mix of romanticized innocence and sexual adventure has been replaced by after-school- special plot twists and puppy-love handholding.
02/27/04
You may have problems with the obvious, cliched story, but the dancing is incredible.
02/27/04
It doesn't make a lot of sense, but there are some lovely dance numbers, and it isn't tough to look at the young and beautiful leads.
02/27/04
Is Fidel really needed in a retread of Dirty Dancing?
02/27/04
Top CriticAs you might expect, the movie is as square as a sock hop.
02/27/04
Every bit as good as the original, but that's not saying much.
02/27/04
The script wallows in its melodramatic clichés and features plenty of unintentionally funny dialogue -- though nothing funnier than the 'based on true events' title card.
02/27/04
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