Dancing those Dirty Moves

Totally frustrated with the number of submissions I had to make in the next eight hours, I decided to go ahead and watch a movie. So I browsed through my sizeable collection of movies, not sure what I wanted to see. I think it had to be light and romantic and preferably not something I had seen before. Hence, came across Dirty Dancing.

When I started to see the movie, two things struck me very strongly. One, of course, was the dance in the movie. It is truly spectacular. I mean the chemistry between the the lead actors as well as the Professional dancers in the movie are scintillating to say the least. And the second thing is how hot is Patrick Swayze! I mean, that guy spends half the movie shirtless and his perfect body drives you to insanity.

So, getting back to the movie, the story could be straight out of a Bollywood masala picture from the 1990s. Rich girl falls in love with poor boy. Father does not approve (though its not about the poverty this time around, thank god, but rather because of a misunderstanding). As a sub-plot, there is of course the handsome cad who gets the girls into trouble with his loose ways. So anyway, after lots of drama, a few fighting scenes and, of course, lots of music and dance; the hero and the heroine get together. The father understands his mistake and apologises and the lead pair dances till the end credit rolls.

So what did I think worked for the movie? For sure the dancing. Not only is there great chemistry but the dancers are good too, specially Cynthia Rhodes and Jennifer Grey. And whatever you say about Patrick Swayze, is going to fall short. Such grace in a man usually comes across as effeminate. But not in this case. He looks good even while dancing immaculately to "Time of my Life"doing the Mambo. The simple storyline is also fun and uncluttered to watch. And finally, Jennifer Grey's innocence is appealing to people of all age groups and her coming of age act is entirely convincing.

What doesn't work? There's nothing new to the storyline. Its illogical at times and the movie gives you a sense of deja vu with the number of movies you may have seen in the same genre.

My verdict is all in all its a completely watchable movie, if nothing else then at least for its dances. At around one and a half hour, the movie also never drags. If you want to sit back and enjoy without thinking much, you could definitely try Dirty Dancing. Whether you like or not, this is one movie nobody can put in the corner.