The Forbidden Dance Is Lambada

The Forbidden Dance Is Lambada (1990)

  • 13% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 76% of users liked it
    (5,015 ratings)

When the Brazilian rainforest home of young Princess Nisa (Laura Herring) is threatened by greedy American businesses, she travels to Los Angeles with Joa the shaman (Sid Haig). There Joa is thrown in jail, and Nisa must find a way to stop the rainforest destruction herself. When a young man who… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Roy Langsdon, John Platt
Genres
Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts
In Theaters
Mar 16, 1990 Limited
On DVD
Sep 30, 2003
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

    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!

  • Luis Martinez, Cinenganos

    A musical without the spark of classics like Flashdance or Fame.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    The movie feels like Dirty Dancing mixed with an 8-year-old's view of rain forest ecology.

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  • John M


    Nice music nothing more nothing less...

  • Leo L


    Quite interesting! A movie from my childhood. Wan's fav. movie!! ;P

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