Dance Flick (2009)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 93
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 76
Dance Flick scores a few laughs thanks to the Wayans brothers' exuberance, but it's ultimately a scattershot collection of gags without much direction.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 15
Dance Flick scores a few laughs thanks to the Wayans brothers' exuberance, but it's ultimately a scattershot collection of gags without much direction.
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A privileged white girl from the suburbs moves to the inner city and attempts to perfect her notoriously clumsy dance moves in this parody of popular dance movies. Damon Wayans Jr. and Craig Wayans star in a comedy co-written by Shawn, Keenen Ivory, Marlon, Craig, and Damien Wayans, who also directs. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Cast
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Damon Wayans Jr.
Thomas Uncles -
Craig Wayans
Truck -
Shoshanna Bush
Megan White -
Essence Atkins
Charity -
Affion Crockett
A-Con -
Chris Elliott
Ron -
David Alan Grier
Sugar Bear -
Kim Wayans
Ms. Dontwannabebothered -
Marlon Wayans
Mr. Moody -
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Mr. Stache -
Shawn Wayans
Baby Daddy -
Amy Sedaris
Ms. Cameltoe -
Christina Murphy
Nora -
Ross Thomas
Tyler -
Brennan Hillard
Jack -
Chelsea Makela
Tracy Transfat
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (78) | DVD (3)
The genre is ripe for mocking. But this steers clear of smart observational comedy and goes for gross-out every time.
Top CriticIn this enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals, the Wayans brothers hand the directorial reigns over to their nephew, Damien Dante Wayans, who piles on the stupid/smart gags with just the right what-the-hell abandon.
Yes, it's rated PG-13, except it's also inappropriate for anyone over 13.
If there exists anyone in the comedy business less funny than the Wayans clan, it's Amy Sedaris, so she's here, too.
The jokes here aren't just low-hanging fruit, they are fruit lazily taken out of the moldy pile.
Dance Flick occasionally hits its mark with nimble execution. But too often it stumbles clumsily into bad taste.
I may like this genre of comedy, but a film like this makes me hope it's going to fade soon.
The material is weak, the focus is too narrow, the pacing is laboured, as if the editors were cutting in anticipation of the laugh track.
I'm trying to think of something nice to say about this movie but I'm drawing a blank.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a genre that has met with some success must be in want of parody.
Bad taste is par for the course in this Wayans Brothers spoof.
Pooling together all their funny business DNA, the Wayans tribe goes for the jugular with its down 'n dirty trademark humor, while barely clinging to a PG-13 rating.
This intermittently funny spoof on dance movies has more Wayans in it than actual laughs.
The main problem is its sheer laziness. Where the likes of Airplane! ...had a soft spot for the genre they were satirising and used that to cleverly subvert expectations and provide surprises, everything about Dance Flick is tame.
As indignity and amateurishness battle for depressing precedence, Dance Flick becomes the comedy equivalent of torture porn, albeit with worse SFX and notably fewer laughs.
To say they fail is to insult the word fail. Scene for scene, there were probably more chuckles in The Reader.
This comedy is so bad it will make you want to tear out your eyeballs and use them as ear plugs.
Aims at the lowest common denominator of taste and falls well below its target.
Cheap, dire, tedious, unfunny, offensive and desperate attempt to induce laughter. Those are just a small selection of the disparaging adjectives that can be applied to this putrid tripe.
A musical spoof with two left feet and no rhythm.
I's even more depressing that the laughs are tumbleweed-thin on the ground and so unfathomably groan-worthy.
Fart jokes and fat gags are top of the agenda in this flat-footed parody.
Toothless and obvious, even its 'best' gag - a farting-ballerina set piece - was done more effectively, for free, on YouTube a year ago.
The simple strategy behind the film? Step one: take an iconic scene from a popular film. Step two: add either a) a black stereotype, b) a fart, a burp or some other bodily function, or c) a gay joke. Step three: double-check it's offensive.
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