Salsa - The Motion Picture
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Movie Reviews of Salsa - The Motion Picture
Movie Review: so oldies
Summary: 3 Stars
well, it was a good idea for dancing and such, but i was rather bored with the older characters...good music though!Movie Review: The Robby Rosa Movie with Some Salsa
Summary: 2 Stars
The story is about a young man of Puerto Rican descent named Rico, his high school-aged sister and widowed mother. Rico needs to sweep everybody off the floor of the La Luna Club in order to win a chance to go to Puerto Rico to compete for the "King of Salsa" title. Along the way he faces some challenges with family, friends, dance partners, and love interests.Like the series of movies made with Elvis, Salsa is a movie that presents many contrived excuses to have the main character dance.(Speaking of Elvis, his non-salsa hit "Blue Suede Shoes" also is in the movie) The high points are cameos by Salsa legends like Celia Cruz and Tito Puente among others, who provide a chance to view and listen to pre-1988 salsa tunes by their original artists. There are non-salsa songs plus a lot of free-style dancing. The acting, plot, filming, etc. should have been much better. Instead of a cinematic masterpiece, this is a 1980's dance movie, but that's what you expected from the title.
However, Robby Rosa, who plays "Rico" often jumps from salsa to his own free-style dance, much to the dismay of one of his dance partners in the film and fans who watch the movie expecting to see good salsa dancing from the main character.-and this movie centers around "Rico".
Two scenes were particularly upseting. (1)The opening of the film has Rico and his male co-workers provocatively dancing with each-other. A female dancer appears briefly but she quickly vanishes, as the men get along. At this point we almost thought we had mistakenly gotten a gay-male movie instead of a dance movie (2) Rico's shower scene and naked tush later in the film also were not keeping with the title/theme of the movie.
The title should be "Robby Rosa as Rico and Some Salsa Dancing" rather than "Salsa"
Movie Review: Don't insult my intelligence
Summary: 2 Stars
I gave this movie 2 stars because I watched it all the way to the end. I did not like this movie and would not recommend it. I like dancing. But I don't see masturbating against a car engine as dancing. The "dancing" in this movie is all sexually suggestive/explicit. The director, producers, and choreographers came up with the idea to put hormone crazed teens and 20-somethings in a movie where they gyrate, rub their bodies against another's, then label it dancing. The protagonist was full of ego and machismo. If I'm not mistaken, Rico (the lead character) had sex with an underaged friend of his sister's. Then "dissed" her in the next scene. In reality, I think he'd be accused today of statuatory rape. I did not like the message this movie was sending to young people.Movie Review: Too Much Emoting
Summary: 2 Stars
A predictable story line, plenty of overacting, and teen angst limited this film. Too bad, because some of the dancing seems quite good. Even for its time, though, this must have been a "C" movie.Movie Review: Where is the salsa?!?!?
Summary: 1 Stars
So I bought this movie because some of the reviews said that the acting was terrible but the dancing was amazing.
Well, anyone who thinks that the salsa dancing in this movie is amazing, awesome, good, or ok, has never actually SEEN salsa dancing!!
I am a salsa dancer, and this movie was HORRIBLE!!! I have seen amazing dancing, and good dancing. This was TERRIBLE dancing! And there was hardly any salsa!
It was 80s dancing to salsa music! That's IT. The only time there was actually salsa dancing was when the main character was training with the club owner. Other than that, it was just 80s dancing to salsa music. That's it.
If you want to see salsa dancing, I DEFINITELY DO NOT recommend this movie.
If you want to see horrible acting, and old 80s dancing, then I recommend this movie...
There was only one thing that I liked about this movie. The appearances made by Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. That was great to see, but not worth buying the movie for....
Oh, and the story line? What was it again????
Yeah...
I love movies, good ones and bad ones.
But this one??? The WORST movie I have seen so far...
To the best of my knowledge, there aren't actually any movies with really good salsa dancing.
Hopefully, someday, there will be.