Overrated Square Dance Crap.

Rating: 2/10 (15 June 2015)

Dirty Dancing (1987): Dir: Emile Ardolino / Cast: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Max Cantor: Overrated sleaze fest shading permissive sex dancing with secondary social themes. Its title references the forbidden. On a family vacation a young woman meets a male dance trainer and she replaces his pregnant partner. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey travel a predictable Romeo and Juliet formula. She will fall for him thus opening up arguments with her disapproving father. And he will, of course, prove himself worthy of this woman after hours of dance training. It is no surprise when she finally does the lift move that she faltered earlier. Supporting roles are a host of embarrassing stereotypes including Jerry Orbach as her strict father in a role rehearsed and performed a thousand times over and it is getting old. Cynthia Rhodes plays the pregnant dancer whom Grey will replace thus stealing the spotlight from. Max Cantor plays the ever familiar womanizing ass whom everyone will see through long after viewers do. Directed by Emile Ardolino with steamy dance numbers sidelining potential theme with a potential orgy. The soundtrack album is catchy with many memorable songs but the film itself is a cliché filled bore that is just an excuse to throw together a mindless erotic tease. In the end this film should be danced upon by a herd of elephants. Score: 2 / 10