Dance Flick (2009)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

In this movie a baby is clearly afraid and not happy at all and I think that is just wrong. So I quit watching it and it was actually a good idea as the movie was not funny overall but rather boring.The actors are the same of the scary movies flicks but now they just don't deliver, so don't waste your time on this one.

Definitely not a politically correct movie by any stretch of the imagination. I loved it!! A racially mixed movie that shows a lot of stereotypical typecasting but no racial tensions in the movie which was a little surprising. The Wayan's family is prevalent through out this film. Some of the roles are a little over the top (Essence Atkins for one) but still funny. Dance crews go head to head, one loses, one wins, the losers owe a loan shark for the contest but can't pay him back. They have week to do so. So now the losers need to get some lucre. So many little scenes that are so funny. Some are so ghetto (sorry) but they are really funny. David Allen Grier in a fat suit was not very funny, maybe he needed the money. I never heard of Shoshana Bush but she ain't bad. I really liked the last scene where she was committing to Damon Wayans Jr. until white folks came by and then she plays him as her valet.

I decided to see this movie in intrepidation, since I am not a fan of this sort of film. There have been some surprisingly good spoofs such as High Anxiety, but the Friedberg-Seltzer movies are all a waste of time with terrible acting and lowbrow humour. So I watched Dance Flick, and while it was actually better than I expected, I was expecting it to be utter crap you see, it wasn't particularly good either.Dance Flick does have its moments though. The choreography does sparkle a lot more than it doesn't, and there are one or two appealing performances, especially Essence Atkins's terrific comic turn and Shoshana Bush's cute as a button Megan. Plus Damon Wayans Jnr is pretty likable. The film is quite short and does move briskly, and I enjoyed spotting the references to Fame and High School Musical, some of which were done in a smart manner.However, there are some failures. The film does start off on the wrong foot unfortunately, thank goodness it does pick up. The story is also rather thin, and the script relies too much on bad taste and gross humour than genuinely hilarious and sophisticated humour. I am especially talking about Amy Sedaris as the aptly named dance teacher Mrs Cameltoe here. The direction is perhaps a little too smug and the editing is choppy on occasions. Although it does have many problems, Dance Flick is definitely not as bad as Disaster Movie or Epic Movie, and is moderately entertaining thanks to some spirited choreography and performances but is deeply flawed due to its thin story. 5/10 Bethany Cox

One wonders about the appeal of parody movies, taking genres that happen to be the flavour of the moment, and then adding doses of comedic spoofs into something of an abomination of a film, very much like a patchwork Frankenstein brought to life by the need to make fun of everything. While I could have swore off such films with the likes of the very unbelievably bad film Meet the Spartans, somehow the need to laugh after a rigorous in- camp training, and wanting to give the Wayan brothers a chance as I've enjoyed their Scary Movie spoof, brought me to their Dance Flick.The Wayan clan banded together to make the film, finding their blood relations from acting and directing right down to coming up with the story and producing it. At times I wonder just how one can find the funds for these kinds of films, especially when recent outputs like Superhero Movie and Disaster Movie were really, really bad, and when you read of people conscientiously wanting to avoid such films so that they result in poor box office, and will never get made again. Unless of course there are so many people out there who are just craving for laughter, of any kind.There's no prize for guessing the films that the Wayans had decided to spoof. With the recent dance flicks like Step Up, Step Up 2 the Streets, and musicals such as Fame, Hairspray and High School Musical, there's no lack of source material to base the spoofs on, which extends its reach to films such as Black Snake Moan even. The art is of course to try and piece everything together for some semblance of a storyline in order for it to work.The liberal application of lazy narrative glue comes in the form of borrowing the backbone from the Step Up movies, where you have a wannabe dancer Megan enrolling herself to school to master her craft and find confidence to dance again, while street dancer Thomas (Damon Wayans Jr) finds a common romantic bond with her. One needs to dance to fulfill her life's ambition, while the other just needs to repay his debts after his street dance circuit attempt with his crew resulted in tragedy (of the comedic sorts).That basically sums up the story, as very random scenes get strung together played just for laughs. You can guess the quality of such scenes from the get go, where toilet humour was the first off the blocks, and set the stage for many more to come. with political correctness getting thrown out of the window in expected terms. One wonders too about the license that the Wayans have in telling many racists jokes about their own race, and also the many celebrity jibes from Britney to Halle to Lindsay that find their way into the scenes through many one liners. Sexual innuendos, and at times very in-your-face explicit display of sexual organs become part and parcel of the shock-and-awe strategy to elicit cheap laughter as well.If you're seriously game for some laughs no matter what the quality is, or probably can laugh at anything the Wayans throw on screen, then you'll survive Dance Flick. If you prefer your humour to be witty, then this is obviously not the comedic film for you.