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Dirty Dancing (2017)
I love both the original and the remake!!
First off I know this movie is 4 years old and it is 2021.
Second so many people are saying this movie is complete crap or if you loved the original don't watch and I disagree. Everyone is allowed an opinion and are allowed there reasons for their opinion.
Here is why I disagree
first off so many people say Abigail Breslin is too "chubby or fat" for the role of baby, we live in a not only a world, but a society where women have curves and curves come in all sorts, that is a part of being a woman. Second they say the clothes she is wearing are all wrong, or they don't match the original, I am not saying that is not true but the clothes she is wearing in the movie don't take away from the story being told and the thing is characters are supposed to be living in 1963 the style of a lot of the pants and shirts that "baby" is wearing are more true to that than 1987 styled clothing Jennifer grey wore in the original. Third, when I first watched the original movie and saw how Patrick Swayze face showed his age and then I look at Jennifer and I know she was about 26 years old when they made this and her character is supposed to be this 17 or 18 year old girl and she looks like she is a 17 year old and Patrick Swayze looks a lot older than the supposed 25 his character is. This made me feel a little uneasy when I first watched this, but then again Hollywood has a way having older actors play younger characters who can pull off the character and have what they want in mind for this character and what they want, I get it and he did an amazing, wonderful and fantastic job as Johnny Castle. In this newer version Abigail looks like an 18 year old which is what age her character is and Colt who plays Johnny who is supposed to be 25 looks 25 which I appreciated in this version. So many people dislike that this was musical, I personally appreciated the musical aspect to the movie, I think what was missing it was light on the musical because some songs they are singing and others it is the music for the scene that is happening. To me the dancing for the character not to have any rhythm whatsoever like in the first scene where she was dancing to the end and can not only dance she dances well I will say that aspect stays true to the story. A lot of people also complain that the "sizzle", and the "heat" are missing from the characters is missing, I will say it doesn't make you think to yourself "get a room you too" but is it is has the same sweet innocent kind of crush that the original "baby" had for Johnny. For the most part but you can see that "baby" has a crush on Johnny and the part where Johnny sees baby in the green dress he is like that stereotypical whoa she is beautiful moment. It heats up the second time they "sleep" together. They had the iconic practice the lift montage to the move and it obviously was in two different places and two different times of day but it also added to the movie and their interaction with each other. To me the secondary characters having a little more light shined on them and what is happening in the movie added to the movie and emotion to what was going on in the story, for instance in the original movie the mom said baby must have got the moves from her because she was a dancer when she was younger to me that was a throw in line and where this movie the mom shows off her ability to sing and sings the song that she and the dad danced to when they first met that added to what was going on and then later the dad also knows how to sing and plays the piano when he went to the dance studio and sang the same song that the mom sang. It also gives explanation to why the older sister has the ability to sing but also a musical interest and wants to be in the talent show and is in the talent show. The storyline of penny and the waiter is the same, and how baby's dad doesn't like Johnny because of the assumption is he was the baby's father that penny had aborted and then needed medical help from the dad later. There is even more emotional depth to the conversations between the dad and baby and what is going in the story. In the first dancing scene of baby and her family at the resort and how baby mentions her older sister has an admirer in Marco the piano player was total foreshadowing to how the older sister learned to play the ukulele from him but also went to him for help looking for her sister and in the end talent show was singing with him and not to mention this is supposed to be in 1963 in America to me that is even more a big deal with if you look in history and what was going on in the 1960s for not only black Americans but black American musicians and it is the golden age of music. But not only that but Marco is the complete opposite of the supposed "dream" guy that the fathers would want for their girls in the case of Robbie, because Robbie had ill intentions towards the sister and Marco was a complete gentleman to Lisa. Yes I will say the iconic last dance did happen and baby was wearing a white dress and Johnny in the original was wearing all black and in the remake he is wearing a white shirt and blue jeans and I kind of get what some people were saying about how he looks like he wants to be in grease but the end where he says nobody puts baby in a corner and takes her up there to sing and dance a long with everyone else in the movie and then how the mom and dad joined in, them all actually singing the song not just lip-synced the words to the music like they were in the original it added to the dance scene. The last lift in the dance it happened and it was good.
I have said my peace and what I needed to say. It was good story and movie overall and there are differences and those differences make me love and appreciate both movies.