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Dirty Dancing (Ultimate Edition - French/English Version)

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Whom is a better dancer than Patrick? Besides being gorgeous, he's a terrific actor, & this movie will make all of us remember him forever.The movie is engraved in my heart forever, & seeing Patrick so alive & so vital will make me remember him forever.(Not to be lost- but all the music in this movie is fantabulous, especially if you are a fan of the 50's & 60's)

Oh Lord. Out on DVD, so I have to watch this AGAIN? Please, give me strength, and my girlfriend taste. Soon.

In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey stars as Frances "Baby" Houseman, a girl who goes on vacation to the Catskills with her father, mother and sister in the summer of 1963. She meets the handsome dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), who works at the lodge where they're staying, and is smitten with him. When she volunteers to fill in for Johnny's dance partner, Baby experiences love and life firsthand from the free-spirited Johnny.

The DVD version of this movie is terrific. The clarity is amazing, the sound is crisp & clear and the bonuses are wonderful. With the bonus features, you get commentary from the movie's creator, a behind-the-scenes featurette (with no audio), the videos for "She's Like the Wind," "I've Had the Time of My Life" & "Hungry Eyes," biographies about the cast & crew (Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston, the director, the producer, the writer and the choreographer), a short "Reliving the 60s" documentary, the theatrical trailer and a concert featuring the music from the movie.

If you love Dirty Dancing, I highly recommended getting this DVD. It would be a great addition to add to your collection!

This was an excellent purchase. There is more on these DVDs than you can shake a stick at. The bonus DVDs has absolutely everything you can imagine from the movie. Alternate endings, cut scenes, screen tests, even a few scenes where there was a different actress playing the mother, interview with Patrick Swayze you name it. If you like this movie, you'll want this DVD, if for nothing else than the bonus DVD.

Of course, the movie is a good story as well. ;)

I have always LOVED this movie, spactacular for all the reasons everyone else enjoys it. But this DVD edition has odd menu music that I found distracting. The interviews, though updated from the collector's editon (which was better), were long-winded and unfocused. I found myself wondering when they were going to finish their point. There is a tribute to the director Emile Ardolino who died from AIDS in 1993. It was a nice idea with some good photos of him. But again the interviews were a little long. It seemed like they needed to do a bit more editing. They have also changed the original chapter selection scene titles for each scene. I thought that was unnecessary because the collector's edition version was just fine. Also, perhaps the most obvious missing piece was a missing interview with Patrick Swayze among all the updated interviews. I was disappointed with that.

Sweet, unabashedly sentimental coming of age in the Catskills tale.

The dancing is hot, the acting is a mix (Grey and Orbach are VG, Swayze tries hard, looks
great, but is a better dancer than actor ).

The ending feels very Hollywood, which is too bad, because the film seemed to promise
more complexity in its gently satirical look at early 60s America in the first half.

Plus some very creaky, cliche sub-plots start to invade as well.

Yet the story is told with an honest and good heart, and there's a reason it's become
a mini-classic. Do I think it's a great movie? No. But can I understand why a
generation that grew up with it cherish it? Absolutely.

I love this movie so much because I never get enough of Dirty Dancing. That Jennifer Grey is one beautiful dancer I love her all the time, just as if she was on Dancing With the Stars. Who would have thought it is great to see this movie on Blu-Ray?

I watched this movie long ago and have recently had my 15 year old daughter rent it too many times to count so we bought it for her for xmas and she was so happy! we watch it together and both drool over patrick.

I bought this DVD & watched it again last night - more than a decade after I had packed away my old video. It is just as wonderful as I remembered and certainly remains one of my all-time favourite films. At the risk of sounding repetitious after the 216 other reviewers I will explain why.

Dirty Dancing is set in a summer resort in the Catskills in 1963, a gentler, simpler time when the world (or at least the North American middle class part of it) was innocent and naïve & hovered on the cusp of vast social change. It was before the Kennedy assassination & the morass of Viet Nam, before student riots and feminism and The Pill, before the Beatles, and just as Motown music was hitting our consiousness.
In 1963 swear words did not appear in print, let alone on TV. Movies and books told a story with a "moral". The good guys always won & the bad guys got their just desserts. Pregnancy out of wedlock was the greatest disaster that could befall a young girl, usually solved by her family sending her "to visit an aunt" out of state for a year, putting the baby up for adoption & drawing a veil of silence over the episode. (This actually happened to a school acquaintance of mine in 1963: everyone knew, but it was never, I repeat, NEVER, spoken of again).

The film has a particular resonance for our generation who came of age at that time. The heroine was 17 years old in 1963, exactly my age then. I worked at a summer resort & knew someone just like Johnny Castle, played by Patrick Swayze in the film. I think most women have a Johnny Castle one summer in our youth.
In 1987 it was mothers who dragged their protesting daughters to see the movie. It has spawned a host of imitators & remakes, the best of which is probably the Australian-made "Strictly Ballroom". There is also a recent remake "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights", set in Cuba which has a following among a new young generation although I have not seen it. Now, a new DVD of Dirty Dancing is being issued for the children & grandchildren of the original fans.
Dirty Dancing bears its age well. It is well worth seeing again, besides hearing that wonderful music that threads through the film: Cry to Me, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, In the Still of the Night, Soul Man, Hungry Eyes and the finale piece "I've Had the Time of My Life" sung by one half of the Righteous Brothers duo, the golden-voiced Bill Medley.

I thought Baby (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny (Patrick Swayze) were the most romantic couple in the movie. I also liked the Dirty Dancing Live in Concert feature.