The dancing brought them together....the years haven't suceeded in tearing them apart

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2002)

The amazement that strikes me when I hear the words `Patrick Swayze can't dance' is indescribable; the day I can dance like that I will be dancing on air!
At any rate, Dirty Dancing, otherwise known as `The Queen of the Chick Flicks', is one of the few movies from the 80's that has aged incredibly well. Although its story is light and predictable, it still has the ability to touch something in its viewers. It is the summer romance that every girl dreams of and never has, and portrays the conflicting emotions of the era and age of it's main character sensitively and marvellously well. In today's Hollywood it is difficult to find a movie that knows the difference between a `sex scene' and a love scene. There is only one flash of nudity in Dirty Dancing (despite the title the movie is probably one of the cleanest on the market), and it is most definitely a love scene, rather than one of the random sex scenes that so many movies throw in movies these days, in fact I hold that it is one of the most romantic and best love scenes ever put on film. All in all, Dirty Dancing is a rare find, a movie with a light, uplifting plot, GREAT dancing, and excellent music that is good for the whole family.