Dirty Dancing (2017)
Release Date: May 24, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
8

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostRobert RorkeMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: Breslin does a credible job with the role of Baby. ... The film tries to make a star out of him [Colt Prattes], and if that doesn’t quite happen, it nevertheless succeeds at showing the hidden talents of some of the medium’s most durable stars. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: Breslin and Prattes are more or less adequate in the pivotal lead roles, but certainly no match for the smoldering chemistry that Swayze and Grey displayed both on and off the dance floor. Read full review
50
IndieWireLiz Shannon MillerMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: Between the bad lip-syncing, the inexplicable addition of musical numbers, and the pale imitation of classic moments from the original film, it just doesn’t work. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 22, 2017
Season 1 Review: ABC's earnest, anodyne remake has managed to surgically extract the magic--leaving the story and signature lines intact while suctioning out all the subtlety, charm and lead chemistry that defined the iconic 1987 original. [26 May 2017, p.55] Read full review
40
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceMay 25, 2017
Season 1 Review: This TV movie is bloated with additional storylines and loses the joy of the original. ... Be prepared to fast-forward--a lot. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesLorraine AliMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: Overall, the new version of Dirty Dancing never finds its footing. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 23, 2017
Season 1 Review: A real musical deploys its songs organically; here they tend to interrupt rather than enhance. ... [A] sterile imitation. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyMay 23, 2017
Season 1 Review: In summary, the new Dirty Dancing is disappointing and a bit all over the place. But its biggest sin is that it’s bloated and boring. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoMay 23, 2017
Season 1 Review: To say they (Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes) have no onscreen chemistry is to minimize the problem: You actively want to get Baby away from him. Read full review
30
The AtlanticSophie GilbertMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: This contemporary version, stuffed with subplots and extended dance sequences and terrible writing (“We’re all gonna be worm food, anyways,” Baby tells Johnny in one impressively lust-squashing shrug of a line) can’t decide whether it wants to emulate the original Dirty Dancing or transform it into Chekhov. Either way, it’s less the time of your life and more three hours you’ll never get back. Read full review
30
Washington PostBethonie ButlerMay 23, 2017
Season 1 Review: It is neither good nor deliciously bad. It is a banal three-hour timesuck that manages to feel both rushed and drawn-out. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDan FienbergMay 23, 2017
Season 1 Review: I wish to praise Abigail Breslin's lead performance in the ABC remake of Dirty Dancing that nobody asked for and nobody is likely to truly enjoy. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushMay 18, 2017
Season 1 Review: This isn't so much dirty as drippy. [15-28 May 2017, p.17]
30
VarietySonia SaraiyaMay 18, 2017
Season 1 Review: A sappy, passionless, schlocky remake of the original, without even the iota of imagination necessary to expand upon the 1987 film. Nearly every element of the film that caught worldwide audiences’ imaginations has been sanded down into an advertisement-ready imagining of the swinging ‘60s. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardMay 24, 2017
Season 1 Review: Its three-hour remake is poorly cast, badly choreographed and auto-tuned to an inch of its life, with a “La La Land”-inspired plot twist that is sure to make no one happy. Read full review
25
TVLineKimberly RootsMay 18, 2017
Season 1 Review: The framing device the ABC version uses to bring us into and out of the story is so clunky, it’s not worth discussing. ... The whole endeavor feels like the Disney ride version of Dirty Dancing: cleaner, prettier and way frothier than the already frothy real thing. Read full review
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