I was reminded of (of all things) Amazon Women on the Moon, a sketch movie that featured spectacular highs and even more spectacular lows. That's why Dance Flick feels more like a series of skits than a coherent parody. It's evident that the way this movie was assembled was for the writers to throw out ideas that might be funny without any concern for whether they could be fit into the framework of the movie. For example, arguably the film's biggest failed gag comes at the expense of Twilight (and occurs right after a not-very-clever nod to Titanic). The satirical elements aren't restricted to dance movies. If you can think of it, the Wayans probably did as well and there will be something in here. Instead, it loosely cobbles together elements from nearly every imaginable dance movie, running the gamut from Fame to Step Up 2 the Streets. The production as a whole feels very much like a contemporary episode of Saturday Night Live: an uneven collection of loosely connected, variably clever comedy sketches.ĭance Flick doesn't follow a baseline story. The best bits in this film fall short of being inspired, but they are outrageous. But Dance Flick also hits big on more than one occasion. A lot of the jokes don't work and, as is often the case with failed comedy, those duds, which come a little too frequently for comfort, make the viewer feel vaguely embarrassed for those who are involved. When it sees a target, it ridicules it - sometimes effectively, more often not. The film pushes the PG-13 envelope to its breaking point.ĭance Flick is an equal opportunity offender. Dance Flick is the product of the Wayans Family (so many of them are involved in one capacity or another that it's unfair to single them out by name), who are relentless in their pursuit of humor, much of which is bawdy, in bad taste, and/or politically incorrect. Of course, the lack of any involvement by the Friedberg/Seltzer team has something to do with this. It doesn't do much else, but for a movie of this sort, anything beyond forcing a reviewer to look up synonyms for "boring", "pointless", and "unfunny" is an accomplishment. In the tired world of genre parodies, where Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have become the "go-to guys," Dance Flick manages the seemingly impossible feat of actually generating some big laughs.
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