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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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A shapeless and crudely made mess that looks and feels like what you might get from a bunch of kids screwing around with a camcorder at a family reunion (and considering the number of Wayans involved, that could actually be the case here)

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/22/09
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

Pooling together all their funny business DNA, the Wayans tribe goes for the jugular with its down 'n dirty trademark humor, while barely clinging to a PG-13 rating.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
05/22/09
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

The Wayanses have made a movie that elicits a few chuckles and a lot of long, awkward silences

Full Review Source: Critic's Notebook | comment Comment
05/22/09
Robert Levin
Robert Levin
Critic's Notebook

Parental Content Review

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
05/22/09
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

As usual with most comedies, the best parts of the film are in the trailers.

Full Review Source: BDK Reviews | comment Comment
05/22/09
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
BDK Reviews

Can the audience stick with this flick that showed most of its funny bits in the trailer? For the most part, yeah.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
05/22/09
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer

Its belly laughs leave you feeling liberated and not guilty; I repeat, not guilty.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/22/09
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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...hilarity is supposed to ensue. But it really just doesn't.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
05/21/09
Peter Paras
Peter Paras
E! Online

So to all the world's 8th-graders I say this: Don't give up hope! Keep making the same jokes you're making now, and you may one day be a filmmaker, too!

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment 2 Comments
05/21/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Grueling, but mostly watchable. Funny? Not so much.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
05/21/09
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
05/21/09
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Times
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There's an art to making a good spoof, but good luck finding it in Dance Flick.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/21/09
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News

Not a perfect 10, but the Wayans crew hit their mark more than they miss.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
05/21/09
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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The clumsy result is what the teen target aud might call a "dance fail."

Full Review Source: Variety | comment 2 Comments
05/21/09
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge
Variety
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If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/21/09
Danny Deza
Danny Deza
Boston Globe

Aside from a half dozen salient bits that call bull**** on the white-black symbiosis portrayed in films such as Step Up, more times than not Dance Flick falls flatter than Eddie Murphy's butt in Norbit.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/21/09
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

a very funny, very entertaining film. Is it perfect? No way. Does it live up to the reputation of classic comedy spoofs like Airplane! and The Naked Gun? Well... yes.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment 4 Comments
05/21/09
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
Filmcritic.com

So is Dance Flick worth recommending? Not for everyone, or for many. But there is an exuberance in the direction, and a certain not-easily-offended audience who will eat it up. You know who you are.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
05/21/09
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

The storylines function as thin threads to hold together set pieces, which mainly work thanks to tight writing and fast pacing (dud scenes, and there are several, breeze past).

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
05/21/09
Jennie Punter
Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail

We live in desperate times. But no one's desperate enough to laugh at Dance Flick. Which is sort of encouraging, no?

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
05/21/09
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
 
 
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