Katie is a high school student and seems to be a smart girl. Katie moves with her wealthy parents to Cuba in 1958. Katie may meet her first love there in Cuba, called Javier, a poor citizen working as a waiter. After a while, Katie began studying Cuban dance in a nightclub with Javier, who decided to teach her. Suddenly, her father moved to the United States after Fidel Castro took power and at that moment Katie had to decide what she could do.
Aside from the triteness of the dialogue, the mathematical predictability of the script and the muddling of numbskulled politics, DD: HN is a fairly enjoyable experience.
Washington Post
February 27, 2004
A routine Hollywood high school morality play.
Fat Guys at the Movies
December 06, 2005
It challenges its audience to ask questions, namely, 'Why?' Why was this movie even made?
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights does have some sexy music and a few good dance sequences in a steamy nightclub, but the story is terribly contrived and the lead actors have zero chemistry.
Although based on choreographer JoAnn Jansen's experience, the script was written by a committee of eight; each writer seems to have contributed every cliché in the memory bank.
