Dance Flick (2009)

Director:

Damien Dante Wayans

Writers (WGA):

Keenen Ivory Wayans (written by) &
Shawn Wayans (written by) ...

Release Date:

22 May 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Music

Plot:

Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as the enter in the mother of all dance battles. |

Plot Keywords:

Wardrobe Malfunction | Teenager | Single Mother | Audition | Childbirth

Cast

Shoshana Bush	...	Megan
Damon Wayans Jr.	...	Thomas
Essence Atkins	...	Charity
Affion Crockett	...	A-Con
Luis Dalmasy Jr.	...	Dancer #9 (as Luis Dalmasy)
Chris Elliott	...	Ron
Christina Murphy	...	Nora
David Alan Grier	...	Sugar Bear
Amy Sedaris	...	Ms. Cameltoe
Kim Wayans	...	Ms. Dontwannabebothered
Lauren Bowles	...	Glynn
Brennan Hillard	...	Jack
George Gore II	...	Ray
Chelsea Makela	...	Tracy Transfat
Ross Thomas	...	Tyler

Also Known As:

Snowflake (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, and language.

Runtime:

USA:83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #45025) | UK:15 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Ireland:15A | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:MA | Norway:11 | New Zealand:R16

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: In one shot, Megan is wearing tan pants, then the next shot she is wearing shorts, then in the next shot she is wearing pants again.

Quotes:

A-Con: All we need is D to do his signature move.
Thomas: He can't. It's too dangerous.
A-Con: Yo I don't care about that man D's gonna do it.
Thomas: But he can break his neck and be crippled forever.
A-Con: D don't care about that man, alright he's gonna take one for the team!
Thomas: Well, like a hundred million Americans, D doesn't have insurance!
D: Yeah, he's right, I don't.
A-Con: Yo man, he's doing the move and that's final. I want this!
Thomas: Exactly YOU want this. Look man, there ain't I in team.
A-Con: There ain't?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)

Soundtrack:

Fame

Use Any Moves Necessary to Escape.

Nearly incoherent mess from the Wayans brothers basically parodies every dance-themed film of recent memory and even takes stabs at other pop culture features like "Twilight" as well. Vignettes add up fast and furiously with no one in the cast making much of an impression and the film almost feeling like it had two dozen different directors and screenwriters (and none with a good cinematic idea). As good as "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" were in the 1980s, "Dance Flick" and others of the type are that awful in the 2000s. Do whatever moves necessary to avoid this horror of a movie which accomplishes nothing except stealing the audience's time, energy, and money. Gobble, gobble. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).