If that doesn’t marginally entertain you, nothing will. I mean, come on: it’s a scant 75 minutes long, contains a well-deserved swipe at the goofiness that is the “Twilight” saga, and features a beatboxing vagina. At its best, it’s an energetic, slaphappy comedy with a cheerful attitude. Not a lot, but just enough.Īt its worst, “Dance Flick” incites a few groans and uncomfortable silences. “Dance Flick” is a cornucopia of cartoon trimmings and raunchy escapades, and I have to be honest here: it did make me laugh. Cameltoe crosshairs are aimed at “Hairspray,” “High School Musical,” and “Dreamgirls” (Sugar Bear sings “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” to food) Keenan Ivory Wayans arrives to slap Steve Harvey and his “loud-ass suits” around and there’s plenty of urban-flavored bits that require the services of Shawn and Marlon Wayans.
In Dance Flick, a young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans. There’s likable buoyancy to Damon Wayans Jr.’s lead performance - he’s clearly inherited his father’s timing David Alan Grier shows up in a bizarre cameo as a morbidly obese criminal known as Sugar Bear and Amy Sedaris adds uncomfortable tartness as the stern ballet teacher Ms. Dance Flick is a hilarious new comedy that brings together the talents of two. While I’ve been conditioned to treat spoof movies as the enemy in recent years, “Dance Flick” actually finds room to have fun with itself and not just slow down to rehash every last pop culture speed bump. Wayans does a sufficient job building “Dance Flick” into a runaway boulder of a comedy, using the lampoons wisely, or at least creatively. Instead, “Dance Flick” employs known screen successes to form its own cyclone of stupidity and slapstick. It’s lowbrow and PG-13-bendingly shameless all the way, refusing to accept the lazier razzing track the diseased Friedberg/Seltzer train has been occupying. This is not a consistent picture, nor a product dripping with commendable wit. It’s a devotion to the fine art of insanity that makes “Dance Flick” somewhat endearing. and Shoshana Bush eager to follow anywhere the script leads them.
The targets of derision here are musicals and the once-flooded urban street dance genre, with the script primarily using “Save the Last Dance” and “Step Up” for inspiration, though plenty of bile is saved to splatter a wide range of titles.Ĭertainly “Dance Flick” has its fair share of dud gags, potty jokes, and disturbingly uninspired riffs (a “Black Snake Moan” parody comes immediatley to mind), but it’s astonishing to observe Wayans locate the right speed of lunacy for his picture, with leads Damon Wayans Jr. Spoofing seems to be a unique family obsession, with “Dance Flick” joining the likes of “Scary Movie,” “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central,” and the classic “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” on the carousel of Wayans-approved lampoons. This four-hour miniseries premiered November 1 on NBC.Joining the never-ending stream of Wayans siblings into the spotlight is Damien Dante, who takes a director slot on “Dance Flick” while the rest of his family eats up the writing, co-starring, and producing credits.
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