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Dance Flick

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Dance Flick (2009)

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Reviews Counted:82

Fresh:15

Rotten:67

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: Dance Flick scores a few laughs thanks to the Wayans brothers' exuberance, but it’s ultimately a scattershot collection of gags without much direction.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout and language.

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 22, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $25,615,792

Synopsis: The worlds of dancing and spoof step up and throw down in DANCE FLICK, the latest melange of movie parody from the Wayans clan. As the film opens, we meet Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans Jr.), a... The worlds of dancing and spoof step up and throw down in DANCE FLICK, the latest melange of movie parody from the Wayans clan. As the film opens, we meet Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans Jr.), a hip-hop hopeful whose dance-competition loss puts him in debt to gargantuan gang leader Sugar Bear (David Alan Grier). But his luck begins to change when he meets the new girl at his performing-arts high school, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), an aspiring ballerina whose Juilliard dreams are shattered when her mother dies a heroically protracted death on her way to Megan’s audition. Though they start as prickly competitors, it isn’t long before Thomas and Megan’s mutual love of dance enables them to overcome the social and racial barriers between them. But will their unlikely love story be enough to inspire all of the school’s students, rekindle Megan’s dreams, and save Thomas as he returns to the hip-hop battlefield of his earlier defeat? In true family style, star Wayans Jr. and director Damien Wayans were assisted by the talents of fellow Wayans Keenen Ivory, Shawn, Marlon, Craig, and Kim to bring the film to life. Poking fun at everything from FAME to HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL to TWILIGHT, DANCE FLICK is a raucous send-up that keeps its scatological beat grooving from start to finish. [More]

Starring: Damon Wayans, Shoshanna Bush, Craig Wayans, Essence Atkins

Starring: Damon Wayans, Shoshanna Bush, Craig Wayans, Essence Atkins, Affion Crockett, David Alan Grier, Amy Sedaris

Director: Damien Dante Wayans

Director: Damien Dante Wayans
Screenwriter: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Craig Wayans, Damien Dante Wayans
Producer: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez
Composer: Erik Willis, Dwayne Wayans
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Oct 6, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Unrated
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Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
 
 
 
 

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Don't say you haven't been warned.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
05/22/09
Newark Star-Ledger

To say they fail is to insult the word fail. Scene for scene, there were probably more chuckles in The Reader.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
08/24/09
Daily Telegraph

Most of the humour is obvious and the rest of it is adolescent at best. There are only so many jokes about bodily functions or homosexuality one person can stand.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
08/21/09
Sun Online

Yes, it's rated PG-13, except it's also inappropriate for anyone over 13.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment 1 Comment
05/27/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

Fart jokes and fat gags are top of the agenda in this flat-footed parody.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
08/24/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

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.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
08/27/09
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

The genre is ripe for mocking. But this steers clear of smart observational comedy and goes for gross-out every time.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
08/21/09
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Time Out

Fans of their Scary Movie and its sequels know what to expect, though perhaps even they will notice here a thinning in the comedy and a coarsening in its misogynist and homophobic riffs. Not an honest laugh in 90 minutes.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
08/21/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

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.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
08/24/09
Ben Rawson-Jones
Ben Rawson-Jones
Digital Spy

What it isn't is subtle, smart or particularly funny.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
05/22/09
Bruce Demara
Bruce Demara
Toronto Star

A depressingly stupid parody of movies such as Save The Last Dance and Step Up, this relies even more than their previous films on toilet humour.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
08/21/09
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Dance Flick occasionally hits its mark with nimble execution. But too often it stumbles clumsily into bad taste.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
05/22/09
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

When is someone going to think of the bright idea to do a parody on Wayans movies?

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
07/04/09
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

This comedy is so bad it will make you want to tear out your eyeballs and use them as ear plugs.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
08/24/09
Cosmo Landesman
Cosmo Landesman
Sunday Times (UK)

If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/21/09
Danny Deza
Danny Deza
Boston Globe

Less a movie and more a series of sorry sketches, Dance Flick is about as bad as it gets.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
08/21/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Limps along like it has a bunion the size of a cantaloupe.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | comment Comment
05/27/09
Donald Munro
Donald Munro
Fresno Bee

So is Dance Flick worth recommending? Not for everyone, or for many. But there is an exuberance in the direction, and a certain not-easily-offended audience who will eat it up. You know who you are.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
05/21/09
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Aside from a half dozen salient bits that call bull**** on the white-black symbiosis portrayed in films such as Step Up, more times than not Dance Flick falls flatter than Eddie Murphy's butt in Norbit.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/21/09
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Grueling, but mostly watchable. Funny? Not so much.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
05/21/09
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
 
 
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