Grey's involvement in the sequel is particularly important as the actress previously turned down the chance to appear in ABC's 2017 remake, which starred Abigail Breslin. Deadline confirmed that Grey would be both starring in and producing the sequel, meaning that she's heavily involved in the production. These stories will be soundtracked by a mix of '90s tracks and songs from the original soundtrack, including Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes."įans of the original Dirty Dancing will be elated to hear that Baby herself, Jennifer Grey, is coming back for the sequel. The film will see Baby returning to Kellerman’s resort in the '90s, with her own storyline intertwining with a new romance involving a young couple at the resort. The Dirty Dancing sequel is aiming to release in 2024.ĭeadline reports that the much-anticipated sequel is expected to start filming later this year with a possible release in 2024. Here's everything we know so far about the Dirty Dancing sequel.
Now, two years after the project was first confirmed, the team has released new details on the plot, the soundtrack, and a possible tribute to Patrick Swayze. Having already inspired a number of spin-offs and re-creations, it's officially been announced that a Dirty Dancing sequel is really happening, and Jennifer Grey, who famously portrayed Frances "Baby" Houseman in the original film, will return. Maybe from the title.The original Dirty Dancing movie became a worldwide phenomenon following its release in 1987.
But the movie plays like one long, sad, compromise it places packaging ahead of ambition. It could have made the obnoxious owner's son less of a one-dimensional s.o.b. It could have found a big scene a little more original than the heroine stepping in for the injured star. This movie could have been about the subjects it pussyfoots around so coyly. But the filmmakers rely so heavily on cliches, on stock characters in old situations, that it's as if they never really had any confidence in their performers. Swayze is a great dancer, and Grey, who is appealing, also is a great dancer.
This might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything. I guess people who care about such things are supposed to be able to read between the lines, and the great unwashed masses of American moviegoers are condemned to think the old man doesn't like Swayze's dirty dancing. It doesn't much matter, since the movie itself never, ever uses the word "Jewish" or says out loud what obviously is the main point of the plot: the family's opposition to a Gentile boyfriend of low social status. The movie makes some kind of a half-hearted attempt to rip off " West Side Story" by making the girl Jewish and the boy Italian - or Irish, I forget. And after some doubt, Swayze becomes her dance coach.Ĭan you figure out the rest of the plot? What's your best guess? Does Grey turn out to be a great dancer? Does Swayze fall in love with her? Do they dance together in front of everybody, while her father fumes and her mother keeps a cool head, and then does Orbach finally realize his mistake and accept the kid as his daughter's boyfriend? Are there stars in the sky? Meanwhile, the sick girl cannot dance in a big show at a nearby hotel, so Grey volunteers to take her place. There is no reason for Orbach to think so, except for the requirements of the movie's Idiot Plot, which obligates everyone to say exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time in order to protect the idiocy of his mistake. Her father ( Jerry Orbach) assumes that Swayze was the father of the child, and so he is violently opposed to any romance between his Baby and this greasy jerk. Meanwhile, a waiter impregnates Swayze's partner, and when there's an emergency, Baby asks her father to help out. At first, he doesn't pay her much attention, but then he kinda starts to like the kid, like in millions of other movies. It's pretty clear they're in a movie.īaby falls in love with the best-looking dancer, a handsome jock named Johnny Castle ( Patrick Swayze), who dances professionally in the hotel's show. The actors playing the staff in this movie are such good dancers, and their dancing is so overchoreographed, that there's no question these are just ordinary kids who can dance pretty well. But from the dormitory out back she hears the insistent beat of rock 'n' roll, and when she sneaks a peek inside she finds the hotel staff engaged in an orgiastic dance sequence. Baby doesn't like the brat, and she finds herself bored by the old people at the hotel.
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