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The Forbidden Dance
Princess Nisa tries to fight a conglomerate threatening her Brazilian rainforest home by going to Los Angeles. When a young man who loves to dance crosses her path, and together they enter a televised lambada contest, Nisa might have found the answer to her prayers.
13 July 1963, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
7 January 1949, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1950
27 January 1945, Dallas, Texas, USA
22 March 1933, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
December 08, 2004
What's a nubile young monarch to do? Why, head to the States and school the nature-hating, money-grubbing Yanks with some hearty forbidden dancing, of course!
April 06, 2015
The story relies on one absurd coincidence after another, the acting is pedestrian, and the screenplay is often unintentionally laughable. However, although overlong, the film is consistently entertaining.
January 01, 2000
The Forbidden Dance might be unintentionally funny if it didn't trivialize the very real plight of the Amazon rain forests.
April 27, 2004
The movie feels like Dirty Dancing mixed with an 8-year-old's view of rain forest ecology.
August 30, 2004
Its dance sequences are barely sexier than a bowling tournament. But connoisseurs of clunky dialogue and shameless continuity lapses should look no further.
January 01, 2000
Herring, a former Miss USA, must not have danced for her talent portion of the competition.
December 16, 2014
A film that defies all sense of merit by intercutting an endless array of pelvis gyrations and Latin-inspired grooves with a tone so inconsistent and downtrodden that it left me wincing in discomfort.
September 07, 2011
Its PG-13 version of a Hollywood-vice plot is so inept it puts you in a stupor.
September 17, 2004
A musical without the spark of classics like Flashdance or Fame.