The picture has often been called "the better of the two" of its lambada dance movie rival The Forbidden Dance (1990).
One of three dance movies released around the same time of the early 1990s. The others are Shout (1991) and The Forbidden Dance (1990).
The film featured on film critic Gene Siskel's list of "guilty pleasures." Although roundly trashed by nearly every major film critic in the USA, Siskel liked the movie and passionately defended it against Roger Ebert's intense criticism of the picture..
The first film to be produced and distributed by Cannon Pictures after its relaunch by Ovidio G. Assonitis.