Dance Flick is a clod-hopping daddy hoofer of a pic that's arrived about a decade too late.
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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Reviews for Dance Flick
This pastiche never manages to find an actual joke. We're left with a painfully convoluted non-plot trying to link together a series of lead-ins to never-realised punchlines.
Unfunny and a poor excuse for satire, Dance Flick follows in the poor tradition of appalling spoof films.
If you're really out of it, you might get off on it. There are few laughs and plenty of lows in the Wayans Brothers new pic, Dance Flick, a low-brow comedy spoof whose appeal will no doubt vary depending on how inebriated you are
When is someone going to think of the bright idea to do a parody on Wayans movies?
But though Dance Flick only has a vague, passing resemblance to Sucka or Scary Movie, and it isn't very funny, it's at least kind of sweet and mostly inoffensive.
The gene talent in the Wayans family isn't as strong in the second generation.
Crude, offensive and amateurish, it exhibits all the wrong moves since the nimble bits are in the trailer.
The whole enterprise seems hopelessly out of date and out of step, especially when you consider such brainy, pointed parodies as last summer's Tropic Thunder.
It isn’t highbrow -- or encumbered by scruples -- but the Wayanses retain their vulgar, adolescent derision of sex, class and race. In this bow down to Hollywood millennium, their irreverence is almost subversive.
In 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.
Dance Flick isn't the bottom of the barrel, but for anyone who knew the Wayans family in their heyday, it's nothing but a scattershot disappointment.
'Dance Flick' may be offensive to dancers and other living things, but it's also very funny.
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