Dance Flick

Name: Dance Flick
Genre: Action, Comedy, Music
Released: May 22, 2009
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 40

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 22, 2009 | PG-13

Summary: 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 theDance 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)… Expand

Director: Damien Dante Wayans

Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 83 min

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Owen Gleiberman

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

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. Read full review

Glenn Whipp

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

Nathan Rabin

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

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Damonically awful. Read full review

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[Anonymous]

May 26, 2009

Be far the best spoof in a long time.

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Zilcell

May 26, 2012

Its funny but the plot is unorganized and unmemorable in almost every way. Its passable when you watch it just to mostly see the humor.

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thecurber

Feb 3, 2011

Dance flick floats, barely, but what keeps it from sinking with those lame, awful and old jokes are some that are creative and funny, even if they do get a little dirty.But what do you expect, there the wayans brothers.

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ChadS

May 23, 2009

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 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").… Expand

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RobinR.

Jun 7, 2009

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!

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JonathanS.

May 27, 2009

Its better than Disaster movie, but that's not saying much.

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KaneK

Aug 15, 2009

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.

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