To say they fail is to insult the word fail. Scene for scene, there were probably more chuckles in The Reader.
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: 15 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout and language.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... 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
Reviews for Dance Flick
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.
Fart jokes and fat gags are top of the agenda in this flat-footed parody.
The genre is ripe for mocking. But this steers clear of smart observational comedy and goes for gross-out every time.
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.
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 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.
This comedy is so bad it will make you want to tear out your eyeballs and use them as ear plugs.
Less a movie and more a series of sorry sketches, Dance Flick is about as bad as it gets.
Toothless and obvious, even its ‘best’ gag – a farting-ballerina set piece – was done more effectively, for free, on YouTube a year ago.
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.
I's even more depressing that the laughs are tumbleweed-thin on the ground and so unfathomably groan-worthy.
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.
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.
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.
Aims at the lowest common denominator of taste and falls well below its target.
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.
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.
Dance Flick is a clod-hopping daddy hoofer of a pic that's arrived about a decade too late.
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