10 Ridiculously Awful Sequels To Classic Movies You Didn't Know Existed

Even though the original Dirty Dancing was grossly lacking in the Patrick Swayze Rips Dudes Throats Out With His Bare Hands department, it's still widely regarded as one of the greatest dance/romance (dance-mance?) movies of the 80s.

Everything about it remains iconic. Can you hear "The Time of My Life" or "Hungry Eyes" to this day without simultaneously envisioning Swayze and Jennifer Grey grinding their dirty business together on the dance floor? How often do you hear someone say "Nobody puts baby in the corner" in your day-to-day life?

If the answers to those questions aren't "Hell no" and "Once every three hours" then I truly hope you're coping in your parallel universe where fun is dead and everyone is super lame.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights tries its hardest to recreate that iconography, but does so with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the groin. Technically referred to as a "re-imagining" by the studio, Havana Nights is essentially a prequel to the original that rehashes the plot with different warm bodies and a much warmer climate.

Swayze makes a cameo, but that only serves to showcase how soulless the rest of the movie is that's happening around him. The soundtrack is fine, but Wyclef Jean's "Dance Like This" just doesn't attach itself to any memorable image. All around: Very cheesy, and not all that fun.