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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: 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

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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
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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
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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 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
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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

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]

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)

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]

Toothless and obvious, even its ‘best’ gag – a farting-ballerina set piece – was done more effectively, for free, on YouTube a year ago.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
08/21/09
Ken McIntyre
Ken McIntyre
Total Film

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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
08/24/09
Matt Glasby
Matt Glasby
Channel 4 Film
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I's even more depressing that the laughs are tumbleweed-thin on the ground and so unfathomably groan-worthy.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
08/24/09
Matt Risley
Matt Risley
Sky Movies

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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/21/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
08/21/09
Mike McCahill
Mike McCahill
Scotsman

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.

Full Review Source: Filmstar Magazine | comment Comment
08/21/09
Noam Friedlander
Noam Friedlander
Filmstar Magazine

Aims at the lowest common denominator of taste and falls well below its target.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
08/24/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
08/20/09
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

A musical spoof with two left feet and no rhythm.

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08/24/09
Ryan Gilbey
Ryan Gilbey
Heat Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
05/22/09
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
Screen International

Dance Flick is a clod-hopping daddy hoofer of a pic that's arrived about a decade too late.

Full Review Source: Teletext | comment Comment
08/20/09
Victor Olliver
Victor Olliver
Teletext
 
 
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