Basil Hoffman, Dennis Burkley, J. Eddie Peck

Lambada has its heart in the 1950s and the rest of its anatomy in the 1980s. It's a Jerry Bruckheimer production, like Flashdance, in all but name. Kevin, a.k.a. "Blade" (J. Eddie Peck),...( read more  read more... ) is a math teacher by day, dancer/G.E.D. instructor by night. Sandy (Melora Hardin) is the kind of student Sting warned about in "Don't Stand So Close to Me." There's his dangly earring and her hair gel. There's her lunkhead boyfriend, who looks like Top Secret!-era Val Kilmer, and Blade's lambada nemesis, Ramon. And, oh yeah, Blade is Latino. Sound familiar? It is. Lambada is cheesy as all get out and doesn't have an original idea in its body. It's also a sure-to-be-guilty pleasure for fans of Footloose and other 1980s flicks with big beats and misunderstood heroes. It isn't as good, but it's still a hoot. And there's lots of steamy Lambada dancing in the nightclub scenes. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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PG-13, 104 min.

Directed by: Joel Silberg

Release Date: March 16, 1990

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DVD Release Date: April 15, 2003

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  • March 31, 2009
    I forgotten how cheesy this early 90's movie was, but can't help but to watch again.
  • October 2, 2009
    i love corny 9o's movies
  • January 15, 2009
    its os good i love it very much
  • January 8, 2009
    tru love and dance story its realy lovely
  • December 19, 2008
    Give me any other dance movie but this one... there are so many better dancemovies out there right now that this one onely got a low score.
    Like the motor bike thoug ;-)
  • August 31, 2008
    This is horrible...really really bad...
    However, admit it!...sometimes you want a really bad movie...look no further.
    It does not contain the (joke) intoxicating, hypnotic tune of Kaoma's "Llorando se fue" (/end of joke) but it gives you Melora Hardin (The Office woman) at her 80...( read more)'s sexiest attempting to do sensual dancing and Shabba-Doo!!!! without a mustache.

    Now, aside those two items...a Capt. Lou Albano-lookin'-motherf'er wears a t-shirt that reads "Moustache Rides 5 cents"...Now that's classic.

    At one moment I heard the fantastic and thrilling Shabba-Do say 'it's the 90's"...I don't think so...unless the movie was aiming to be a time travel to the future. Keep in mind that this is not the popular Lambada sound (yikes!) and its just a bad (very bad) cross between Stand and Deliver (you'll see why) and an awful musical with lots of synths and 80's pads...

    Enjoy with someone you like to share the laughter and I recommend a couple of caipirinhas before hand. To my brazilian and latin friends in general....AVOID

    2 stars because of Shabba-Doo! and realizing that Melora Hardin is actually better looking older
  • April 10, 2008
    i like j eddie peck, he's so cute as adam baylan in kyle xy
  • March 7, 2008
    There's something incredibly disturbing about Melora Hardin doing the dirty dancing.. Were this two separate films pieced together at editing?
  • December 12, 2007
    ok but could have been so much better

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