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The greatest movie ever made..!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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.

I'll be brief. I waisted too much time watching this, so I won't waist even more writing a long review. I gave a star because I liked the Cuba song, but that's it. For the rest, such a bad bad bad... EVERYTHING: casting, choreography, acting, directing...etc etc... I wonder what Patrick Swayze had to do with this pathetic imitation of a wonderful memory. They could have picked up another actor, same category with the rest just to fit with their script and leave Patrick S. alone. It was very very disappointing. I could watch "Dirty Dancing", the original one, endlessly ... but this Havana thing... I made a big effort to resist watching it till the end... If you want to see a good movie, pick up the first Dirty Dancing. Simply like that.

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.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights... really good!10/10 for sure... this movie is the perfect combination of beauty, Latino rhythms and passion!The dances, the music, the scene... everything is this movie makes you wanna 'do it' on the dance floor...Tha way they dance it's sexier than sex itself... and it's awesome to watch!If you get the chance... watch it 'coz the movie is great!As for the movie itself, maybe it isn't the best movie ever... but the actors, generally speaking are very good. The way the director Guy Ferland got the images of Havana, Cuba it's genius... in terms of the image... it's a beautiful movie.The plot is amazingly beautiful, but at the same time it could be better... I mean, why do a movie at the time of the Cuban revolution, if you're just not gonna develop the theme?!Anyway... everything combined... the movie is excellent... in a scale from 0 to 10, I give it a 20 for sure!!