Worst, however, is the torturous detour into the crumbling marriage of Baby’s parents, played by Debra Messing and Bruce Greenwood. Count your blessings that Baby didn't have another sibling the movie might have run another hour. Modern Family's Sarah Hyland, as Baby’s older sister, not only gets a song, she gets turned into a budding civil-rights activist. To be fair, even Grey and Swayze would have had trouble lifting the bloated, leaden mélange cooked up here by American Horror Story writer Jessica Sharzer and Australian TV director Wayne Blair, who have removed all sense of place while drastically padding the film's length. Katey Sagal’s on-the-prowl divorcee now gets a number, Fever (one of a handful of old/new songs unnecessarily shoehorned into the score). And underneath the spell of summer love, it was about something: Baby's blossoming mirrored the cultural and social changes happening in the world around her, as expressed by the contrast between ballroom twirls and soulful 'dirty dancing.' It may not be the deepest story ever told, but it had energy, grace and two well-matched, magnetic leads.

Set in the Catskills in the summer of 1963, the original Dancing is simplicity itself: Girl meets boy boy teaches girl how to dance, among other things girl leaves camp happier, wiser and with some killer moves. No matter how badly you sing, you can't be as tone deaf as this movie. Or, if you prefer, just sit in a dark room and hum (I've Had) The Time of My Life to yourself - which would still be a better choice than watching the miscast, misbegotten remake of Dirty Dancing (8 ET/PT, * ½ out of four) ABC is trying to foist on you Wednesday night. Notably, however, the remake did keep the original’s famous abortion storyline essentially unchanged, while also using it to drive Penny and Baby’s closer friendship.Those are just some of the places where you can watch the original Dirty Dancing, the much-loved 1987 musical starring Jennifer Grey as the shy, smart Baby and Patrick Swayze as Johnny, the charismatic, hunky dancer who gives her the time of her life. Nearly every song that featured in the original’s iconic soundtrack was a remake itself, heavily remixed or newly covered many major songs (like “Do You Love Me,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and, of course, “I’ve Had the Time of My Life”) were reworked to turn the movie into an actual musical, with the characters themselves singing as well as dancing.

Most of the Dirty Dancing’s original themes - a hypocritical upper crust, social and class tensions, and frigid family dynamics - were watered down with heartwarming family reconciliations, interracial friendships, and empowered girls being empowered together. The remake departed from the original in several significant ways. But it didn’t help that the film essentially turned one of the most notoriously sexy romances of our time into a Disney movie (which perhaps shouldn’t be surprising, since ABC is owned by Disney, but still). Most viewers - or at least the ones on Twitter - seemed to agree that the main problem with ABC’s Breslin/Prattes pairing was its lack of chemistry.

Everyone on my timeline is asking why ABC didn't cast better dancers.Īnswer: real dancers know that you don't mess with #DirtyDancing- Carolyn May 25, 2017

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