![]() The amusing Essence Atkins costars as Shoshana's sassy best friend, Charity, with Shawn Wayans appearing as Charity's baby daddy. plays the not-so-streetwise hood who falls for Shoshana Bush, a lame-assed white chick from the suburbs who wants to make it to Julliard but has to overcome the trauma of losing her mother in a car crash on the day of her audition. Like most such films, "Dance Flick" is a goofy, genial and instantly forgettable comedy that takes on such recent hits as "Step Up 2 the Streets" and "Hairspray" as well as more dated works such as "Flashdance" and even "Singin' in the Rain." As with all these scattershot send-ups, the movie defies the rules of logic and physics as it pokes fun at the accoutrements and style of hip hop music and culture. "Dance Flick" is the latest in a long line of "Airplane"-spawned movie parodies, this one a product of the formidable spoof-industry mavens, the Wayans Brothers. (Paramount Pictures, Run Time 1:23, Rated PG-13)(2/10) I would not recommend this movie to anyone, so save your money and see something else. I did laugh at many of the scenes, but the few laughs that I did have, weren't enough. Unfortunately, Dance Flick did not meet my expectations. ![]() There are so many problems with the acting, script, editing, and direction. If you go in thinking it will be a funny movie, it will disappoint you. This is one of those movies that used all the funny clips in the trailer. (My Comment) The funny and inventive Wayans Brothers made this spoof movie, yet it was not as funny as the TV movie trailers would imply. They try to bring the ultimate dance crew together to win $5,000 at the local dance contest. Thomas and Megan connect, and they must face their impossible dance dream together. Megan meets some new friends at the school like Tracy (Chelsea Makela), Charity (Essence Atkins), and Thomas (Damon Wayans Jr.) who dance in a street dance gang. Since her mother's death, Megan has given up dancing. She enrolls in Musical High School, an inner city high school. Megan must move to another city to her destitute father's apartment which is located in a condemned building. While she is performing at her dance audition, her mother is tragically killed in an auto accident. (Synopsis) Megan (Shoshanna Bush) has a dream of going to Juilliard and becoming a dancer. I'd say to skip the movie, if you really want to see it, go for the rental. I'm sorry to say that Dance Flick is just a bad movie, it has a couple giggles here and there, but the audience was silent throughout most of the film. The movie was also, like most spoof movies, was way too short as well, the stories didn't make sense and were just too random. The actors seemed to force their comedy too much as well where they were just not funny. But they relied too much on the gross jokes, instead of getting a laugh from them, they keep pushing on the gross jokes too much on the audience and it just didn't work. With Dance Flick it was completely different, I was really excited because we have a really funny team working on the film. Now for some odd reason I did get a few laughs out of a stupid movie like Meet the Spartans, but that was because I kept my expectations low and knew what I was going into. But will they put all aside to help Thomas and his crew win the five grand to pay back his sponsor? Well, if you've see the "dance flicks" of the past decade, you know how it goes. They also must face the difficulty of having a inter-racial relationship, as black women and white men passing them by, they try to pretend their love isn't real. Trying to "bring it", they work together to bring the ultimate dance group together. When Thomas and Megan connect they must face their "impossible" dreams together. She meets some new friends like Tracy, Charity and Thomas who is in a street dance gang. Megan is a former dancer who goes to a new school where everyone can magically sing and dance. I can't even believe how many problems there was with this movie, wither it's the editing, acting, or direction, Dance Flick is a let down. Unfortunately Dance Flick did not meet my expectations, it was one of those movies that used all the funny clips in the trailer. Leave it to the Wayanes Brothers to finally put this genre in it's over clichéd and overused scripts in it's place. The past few years we have had a major thing with dance movies like: Save the Last Dance, Step Up, Stomp the Yard, You Got Served, Honey, etc. The last really funny spoof movies are the Scary Movie series, they were clever and in our faces about the clichés in horror movies. ![]() But ever since the Friedberg/Seltzer team has joined in the "I can make a movie too" bandwagon, we were begging the Waynes Brothers to come back. With the recent disappointments that have been in the spoof movie genre, we needed something fresh and funny, well we're not getting that obviously.
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