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Dance Flick

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Dance Flick (2009)

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Reviews Counted:7

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Rotten:4

Average Rating:4.3/10

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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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
Matt Glasby
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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.

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08/24/09
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The genre is ripe for mocking. But this steers clear of smart observational comedy and goes for gross-out every time.

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08/21/09
Anna Smith
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Its belly laughs leave you feeling liberated and not guilty; I repeat, not guilty.

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05/22/09
Stephen Holden
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This send-up, created in large part by new-generation family members Damon Jr., Craig and Damien Dante Wayans, possesses a more nimble comic footing.

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05/21/09
Glenn Whipp
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Los Angeles Times
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Not a perfect 10, but the Wayans crew hit their mark more than they miss.

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05/21/09
Michael Rechtshaffen
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The clumsy result is what the teen target aud might call a "dance fail."

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05/21/09
Peter Debruge
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Variety
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