This extraordinarily successful film, which rocketed Patrick Swayze to stardom (he dances with grace and also sings one of the soundtrack's songs), is like an adult version of a pop musical from the mid-1960s. The amazing thing is that, although its dated script and illogical plot hurt the film badly, a great deal of it still works. The dancing's good and so is the music, and even the script has odd lines that hit home, as when Max (Jack Weston), the ageing proprietor of the film's glamorous holiday camp, confesses on closing night that he feels 'like it's all slipping away'. The dialogue does, however, also contain Swayze's classic exclamation: 'Nobody puts Baby in the corner! ' (DQ)

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