The Forbidden Dance

1990

Action / Drama / Music / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.0/10 10 1972 2K

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Plot summary

A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.

Director

Greydon Clark Photo
Greydon Clark

Top cast

Johnny Mask Photo
Johnny Mask as Mickey's Dancing Patron
Robert Apisa Photo
Robert Apisa as Security Guard #2
Ruben Moreno Photo
Ruben Moreno as The King
Miranda Garrison Photo
Miranda Garrison as Mickey
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894.08 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.62 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by priscillagrrr

I feel ashamed of being Brazilian after watching this movie!

This is a ridiculous film! Not only is there no good dancing , as the title suggests, and moronic dialog, but the writers obviously did not research Brazilian culture whatsoever before making this crappy movie. I'm Brazilian, born and raised, and believe me on this one, there are NO princesses there. Not even anything close! It makes me angry that this movie portrays my country and culture so wrong. Asides from that, the movie makes me laugh because everything is so exaggerated and corny!
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 5 / 10

Cannon war

The Forbidden Dance: Made by Menahem Golan's 21st Century Film Corporation - Menahem wasted no time as this was his tenth film at his new studio in a little more than a year - and released by Columbia Pictures, this would be my favorite of the two films, but the race is very close. That's because this feels pure Cannon in its astounding weirdness, placing Miss USA Laura Harring as Nisa, a Brazilian tribal princess - who speaks Spanish and not Portuguese the actual language most people speak in Brazil - who comes to America with tribal shaman Joa (Sid Haig!) to stop the rainforest from being cut down.Let's review that last sentence and just wash in the joy of all that is Menahem Golan making movies.Aftr Joa goes to jail for using black magic to break into the headquarters of an evil corporation, Nisa ends up becoming a maid for rich people Katherine and Bradley Anderson (she's played by Shannon Farnon, the voice of Wonder Woman on Super Friends) and their son Jason (Jeff James) just wants to dance. He's got jerk friends and worse parents, so Nisa runs away and becomes a private dancer, a dancer for money at a dance club/brother named Xtasy.After one of Jason's crappy friends tries to get with her - and she knees him in the dick - he tells Jason's real girlfriend Ashley (Barbra Brighton) all about it and she's as gross as everyone else in his life, so he mopes around and tries to Taxi Driver save her and nearly gets killed by a bouncer who then plans to assault Nisa before Joa appears and uses magic to save them both.Now the movie moves into a dance contest story, as Nisa and Jason decide to do lambada and win a chance to appear on TV to discuss the rainforest before Richard Lynch - this movie just went up five stars - kidnaps her and busts Jason's ankle just before they're going to get on stage with Kid Creole.Of course, black magic saves the day again, Nisa's father shows up and everybody decides to save the rainforest. And do the lambada.The Forbidden Dance was not allowed to have the world lambada in its title, while it got the rights to use the actual song "Lambada." Sadly, the sequel Naked Lambada! The Forbidden Dance Continues was never made, despite the ad in Variety saying that it would be.Best of all, the movie ends with this on screen: This movie is dedicated to the preservation of the rainforest.
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