#Dirty song rating movie

She looks like a young Carole King, which given the movie’s time and place is a nice hindsight visual rhyme. She’s pretty, but not so pretty that it’s hard to imagine her being thrilled and surprised by the reciprocal affections of Swayze’s Johnny. Their chemistry and charm emit the film’s brightest light. Grey and Swayze, though, fully and completely redeem Dirty Dancing.

#Dirty song rating movie

(Side note: The movie is clearly set at a Jewish resort, and populated by Jewish characters, but the words “Jewish” or “Jew” are never uttered.) The smarmy waiter, Robbie Gould, Baby’s even more naïve sister Lisa, and the oily social director, played by Wayne Knight, who’s great at playing overbearing obese guys but also probably never needs to play that role again. He’s a bit of a dick, but ultimately a good dude.Įvery other supporting character is a scrawled symbol. Still, he’s sympathetic as far as bad dads go in the same paternal vein as John Mahoney’s sympathetic scammer in Say Anything. (The cash is to pay for an abortion.) No follow-up questions. When Baby asks for $200 to help a friend out, Dad caves after she swears it’s not for anything illegal. (For my fellow cultural laggards: The film’s plot is a Romeo & Juliet story set at a Jewish resort in the Catskills in 1963.) Jerry Orbach, my second-most favorite Law & Order detective after Dennis Farina, is slightly aloof but still goodhearted in his role as the overbearing father to Jennifer Grey’s naïvely optimistic teen, Baby Houseman. The rest is a mixed bag of Brylcreem, half-note characters, and chiffon. The two leads and their dancing, unsurprisingly, are great, thrilling, delightful. But on the occasion of the movie’s 25th anniversary, I decided to watch Dirty Dancing. The album was, is, a monster.īut no one would argue say that all the album’s songs are deathless classics, and given my earlier ad nauseum exposure, I wasn’t exactly starving to see the movie, whose wave I’d never caught while channel surfing. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes’ duet, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life) was a No. Double-duty star Patrick Swayze’s “She’s Like the Wind,” went to No. It spawned singles: Eric Carmen’s misty “Hungry Eyes” went to No. 1 on the Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. Dirty Dancing has been certified 11 times platinum since it came out in 1987. My mom played the shit out of that Dirty Dancing tape. The soundtrack, recently reissued in a deluxe 25th anniversary package, was Clockwork Orange’d into my brain between the ages of five and whenever I stopped relying on my parents for car rides. I’ve seen the movie Dirty Dancing once, and that was just a few days ago. I’ve heard the soundtrack to the movie Dirty Dancing roughly a million times.