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.
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08/24/09
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.
Theatrical Release:21-08-2009
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... [More]
Starring: Damon Wayans, Shoshanna Bush, Craig Wayans, Essence Atkins
Director: Damien Dante Wayans
Reviews for Dance Flick
Top CriticTo say they fail is to insult the word fail. Scene for scene, there were probably more chuckles in The Reader.
08/24/09
Top CriticThis comedy is so bad it will make you want to tear out your eyeballs and use them as ear plugs.
08/24/09
Aims at the lowest common denominator of taste and falls well below its target.
08/24/09
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.
08/24/09
A musical spoof with two left feet and no rhythm.
08/24/09
I's even more depressing that the laughs are tumbleweed-thin on the ground and so unfathomably groan-worthy.
08/24/09
Fart jokes and fat gags are top of the agenda in this flat-footed parody.
08/24/09
The genre is ripe for mocking. But this steers clear of smart observational comedy and goes for gross-out every time.
08/21/09
Top CriticToothless and obvious, even its ‘best’ gag – a farting-ballerina set piece – was done more effectively, for free, on YouTube a year ago.
08/21/09
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.
08/21/09
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.
08/21/09
Less a movie and more a series of sorry sketches, Dance Flick is about as bad as it gets.
08/21/09
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.
08/21/09
Top CriticFans 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.
08/21/09
Desperately unfunny comedy that lurches clumsily from one tedious spoof scene to the next, under the mistaken impression that just referencing a film or a celebrity is enough to get laughs.
08/21/09
A few very throwaway chuckles rank it above Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie in the movie gutter, for what it's worth, but it's been assembled with the usual shoddiness.
08/21/09
Dance Flick is a clod-hopping daddy hoofer of a pic that's arrived about a decade too late.
08/20/09
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.
08/20/09
While there's certainly ample comedic sport to be had at the expense of the recent glut of overly melodramatic teen dance dramas, Dance Flick rarely stays on the beat.
05/22/09
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