What age to watch Dirty Dancing at?

TeamLowe

We was concerned with this with my cousins 7ish children but they was fine with it. The abortin storyline is never explicit, it's only rewatching as an adult you realise what's going on, as a little girl I never really thought about why she was ill

It is raunchy but not overly so, little girls focus on the dancing and the romance really x x

lika_86

I had never watched Dirty Dancing until the other year (I'm now 26) and think I was too old for it, I don't think I 'got' it, I didn't find it romantic at all, actually a bit creepy.

Janepig

I don't think a child watching it would understand the "abortion" bit - it's not obvious that's what the storyline is, as others have said, it's only as an adult you would realise what was going on. But probably 11/12 is about right.

I thought of letting DD and DS watch Gremlins, but when I watched it again, I got to the bit about the man getting stuck in the chimney at Christmas and thought it best to lay off that until they stop "believing". But they've seen the second one.

Jx

Gottodothis

Its a 15 on the dvd cover

amus

I used to watch it at 5, it was one of my favourite films.

To be honest I just didnt 'get' the adult content, I just loved the dancing!

mynameistallulah

amus wrote: »

I used to watch it at 5, it was one of my favourite films.

To be honest I just didnt 'get' the adult content, I just loved the dancing!

I watched it at eight, and I agree, all I remembered was a love story and lots of music and dancing. In fact, that's all I remember now too!

Torry_Quine

It's on CH 5 tomorrow evening cert 15.

Wirenth

mynameistallulah wrote: »

I watched it at eight, and I agree, all I remembered was a love story and lots of music and dancing. In fact, that's all I remember now too!

Yes, I watched it at 8/9. It wasn't until I saw it as an adult that I spotted the abortion sub-plot - I just thought that the lady was ill.

FatVonD

I watched it in my 20s and I don't recall an abortion sub plot I remember thinking the dancing wasn't very dirty, I'm not sure what I was expecting :rotfl:

Spendless

FatVonD wrote: »

I watched it in my 20s and I don't recall an abortion sub plot I remember thinking the dancing wasn't very dirty, I'm not sure what I was expecting :rotfl:

How closely were you watching? It's the reason Johnny teaches Baby to dance so she can stand in for Penny at a performance they are due to perform in. Baby then has to ask her father to give medical attention to Penny as the abortion is botched and he's not very pleased at the company his daughter is keeping (he jumps to the conclusion that Johnny is the one who got Penny pregnant).