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Dance Flick

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Dance Flick reviews
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2.8 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy

Written by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
Craig Wayans
Damien Dante Wayans

Directed by: Damien Dante Wayans

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 22, 2009
DVD: September 8, 2009

Running Time: 83 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, and language

Starring Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins, and Affion Crockett

Dance Flick is a hilarious new comedy that brings together the talents of two generations of the Wayans family, the explosively funny clan who brought us the “Scary Movie” franchise and “White Chicks,” as well as the groundbreaking TV series “In Living Color.” In Dance Flick, a young street dancer, Thomas Uncles, from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White, are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles. (Paramount Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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75

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals.

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70

The New York Times Stephen Holden

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

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

The Wayans brothers manage to squeeze it all in to consistently amusing effect and in a way that just barely manages to stay within those PG-13 parameters.

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

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

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50

Los Angeles Times Glenn Whipp

The miss-and-hit parodies score best when focusing on the Julia Stiles-styled girl next door.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

Dance Flick occasionally hits its mark with nimble execution. But too often it stumbles clumsily into bad taste.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

An entertaining, moderately irreverent comedy that launches the silly movie season on a sure foot.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The best bits in this film fall short of being inspired, but they are outrageous.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

It would be hard to imagine a film with less going for it than Dance Flick.

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40

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

A decent enough spot of silliness.

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40

LA Weekly Aaron Hillis

The gags themselves only marginally work when they stick to silly non sequitur; the random movie references are forced and flat, and the takeoffs of "Dreamgirls" and "Fame" songs would make "Weird Al" groan.

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40

Variety Peter Debruge

This slapstick and scatological spoof settles for obvious punchlines, delivering just enough laughs to justify its existence without coming anywhere near the bar set by "Scary Movie."

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30

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

There's an art to making a good spoof, but good luck finding it in Dance Flick, not only because the movie goes for easy toilet humor, but because it often relies on it to stay afloat.

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30

Washington Post Monica Hesse

There are two dance-offs, multiple fat jokes and one sight gag using eye boogers, a heretofore ignored bodily fluid. These are the highlights.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

It's surprising how dated some of the humor is.

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25

Boston Globe Danny Deza

If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.

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0

New York Post Kyle Smith

Damonically awful.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 2.8 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kane K gave it a0:
It Sucks no more crappy spoofs the last 7 where horrible but this one takes the moldy cake of shame. P.S this is the WORST one of them all put together.

Robin R. gave it a3:
A movie looking for a laugh. The Wayans do NOT do it again. This movie is waht can happen when nepotism gets out of hand!

Jonathan S. gave it a3:
Its better than Disaster movie, but that's not saying much.

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
Be far the best spoof in a long time.

Chad S gave it a4:
And now Keenan Ivory Wayans has something in common with the late Stanley Kubrick. Both filmmakers make reference to the musical "Singin' in the Rain". In "Dance Flick", Mr. Moody(Marlon Wayans) uses the word "dignity" a lot as he talks about the stereotypical "Negro"-specific roles he accepted during Hollywood's unenlightened years to a classroom full of bored students. Half a century ago, Gene Kelly's silent film star stood on the red carpet at a gala premiere for his latest movie and says, "Dignity. Always dignity," to describe his years in vaudeville as a burlesque act. Both proclaimers are being ironical. "Classy" is an aesthetic that has never been synonymous with Wayans' filmography(the geyser of semen that pins the "Scary Movie" franchise girl to the ceiling in an "American Beauty" parody comes immediately to mind), but his treatment of the immortal dance flick is classy, especially when you compare it to Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange", in which Malcolm McDowell sings the titular song while viciously beating an old man and woman during a home invasion. What's not classy, however, is how he takes away Halle Berry's dignity by dredging up her old "Hit and Run Halle" public image in an admittedly funny throwaway gag. That's so 2000. That's so antithetical to the significance of Berry's breakthrough Oscar-win for Marc Foster's "Monsters Ball". Acceptance speech histrionics aside, Berry shed light on the indignity of her thespian predecessors who were regulated to playing "colored folks", such as a cotton-picker(Mr. Moody's biggest role) and other roles of its ilk. "Dance Flick" has a sociological disconnect, but it's typical of this filmmaker's no holds barred approach towards his own people(e.g. Regina King as the disruptive movie patron who gets murdered in "Scary Movie").

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