Dance Flick (2009)

The first thing that cross my mind after watching this horrible piece of crap was that i wasted 2 hours of my life, and that no matter how much i want to take back time i could not. Not even one laugh, a smile...nothing but disappointment. Bad acting, bad script, worse jokes, i don't really understand the purpose to make this movie, probably just the profit of it. In my opinion there is no argument to support the history, the development of the characters is weak, even for a comedy. There is no coherence between the dialogs, and while all this taking place , i just wanted to end, and it did, making no sense at all, as expected. Finally i have to say: avoid watching this film, its not worth of anyone's time.

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

There is one thing in film that I can't stand especially in the last new millennium is the spoof genre. The ridiculous, over the top, disgusting humor that forces jokes into a tired story by making fun of various types of movies that don't deserve being made fun of. Scary Movie brought stupidity to a whole new level. The quality of films in the spoof genre shrank to the worse level of stupidity after the nineties leaving behind the Naked Gun films, Airplane and classics like that. All this being said imagine my shock when Dance Flick actually turned in a reasonably less stupid, and actually funny (even if it was guilty pleasure laughing) with a decent story no matter how silly it might be. The films they poke fun at actually work into their story and they use the teen dance flick "Save The Last Dance" as the basis of their story and that works too. The cast really meld well together and the toilet humor is in full swing which is almost a given with this type of movie, in some ways it always has been. But repeatedly I found myself laughing and shaking my head at the pure silliness but yet still entertaining me so bravo to them.Relative newcomer Shoshana Bush leads the cast as dancing hopeful and awkward clutz Megan. In true comedienne style Bush uses physical comedy and terrific facial expressions to really bring home the laughs. She likely has a promising career in comedy if she gets out of this spoof genre because as okay as this movie is...it's not likely to get her anywhere. Damon Wayans Jr. continues the Wayan's shaky ground career in spoof movies, lord knows the Scary Movie films were enough to make me never watch a spoof movie again. However Wayans Jr. does a decent job of not overdoing the slapstick comedy, a mistake his father made on numerous occasions. Wayans Jr. And Bush are kind of cute together but then don't have a lot of chemistry. Essence Atkins plays Wayans Jr's sister Charity and she is hilarious. Her over the top performance really stands out in this cast and she is ridiculously funny. Veteran young actor Affion Crockett is also good, very funny, and not overused as the best friend A-Con.If I sound like I'm talking this movie up like it's a must see treat of the year then let me back pedal. I still hate spoof movies and if I could go back in time I probably would have saved the Microsoft points (I rented it on Xbox 360) and not paid money or currency for this. That being said if you stumble onto it via cable or someone else rents it and forces you to watch it then you won't be at a complete loss of an hour and a half or less. Fortunately like many spoof films it has a mercifully short run time. The ridiculousness will make you smile despite yourself and the cast is decent enough to make it work. So if you can lower your intelligence or if you actually enjoy parody/spoof movies then this one is at least redeemable and that is saying something. 6/10

I have seen some of the Wayans Brothers previous movies. Although, I'm not a big fan of spoofs, I do like the occasional one and thought this movie would make me laugh a little (like Scary Movie did), I Was Wrong!! I couldn't finish watching it, it was just... too terrible. The exaggerated jokes are just not funny... AT ALL. I also think there was too much offending going around; I have to admit that I have laughed at offensive jokes in other movies (we all have), but this one just goes over board a bit, to the limit where is just offensive and not funny. I really like comedies and movies that make me laugh in general, I think it makes me feel happier and gives my brain a bit of a vacation from the stress, so I actually feel offended by how the writers thought that we might actually laugh at a bunch of absurdities that don't really make sense. Please, Do Not Waste Your Money on this film and try to find something better to watch.