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20 years after teenage girls swooned to the Swayze hips, Dirty Dancing's back. But is it still the ultimate chick flick or a clich茅d mess of cha-cha-cha's that should never be seen outside of a sleepover? Well, that all depends on your penchant - or not - for Swayze himself, as the summer camp dance instructor introducing Jennifer Grey's posh girl 'Baby' to more than just a few moves on the dancefloor.

Brilliantly nostalgic even when it was made in 1987, Dirty Dancing's 60s-set coming of age tale ticks all the chick flick boxes. Plain Jane of an outsider growing up fast in a strange new world? Check. Sing-along-a soundtrack that's, actually, rather terrific? Present and correct. One all-encompassing dance-off finale? Oh yes. Add a disapproving father, bitchy sister and a storyline in which our heroine must learn her lifts, lose her 'spaghetti arms' and masquerade as a pro in only a few weeks, and you've got a formula that few movies have matched.

"HAS MATURED BY THE YEARS"

It's not all entirely age-proof: the much vaunted raunch factor will be laughed off by anyone Baby's age today, along with Swayze's terrifying semi-mullet. The cheesier lines, however, have only matured with the years. And while moments such as "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" may today attract more scoffs than swoons, chick flicks have hardly been bettered.

Dirty Dancing is re-released in UK cinemas on Friday 9th February 2007.