PG-13 | 1h 40m | Dance, Romance, Drama | August 21, 1987
I just watched “Dirty Dancing” for the first time. “What? A film critic who never saw ‘Dancing Dancing?’” Yes indeed. When “Dirty Dancing” came out in 1987, I was living in Germany. Most Americans don’t realize that Germans dub all American movies into German. Not like the more cosmopolitan French, who use subtitles, or the quadrilingual Dutch, who are proud to watch their American movies raw and uncut, and even get the cultural references. No. Dubbing. Talk about your “lost in translation” situations. And so you’d go see an Eddie Murphy movie full of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) dubbed into German. After watching “Beverly Hills Cop,” you’d exit the movie theater and overhear conversations like this:…