Dance Flick (Unrated)

I'm Being Fair Here
First of all, u need to know that Dance Flick is a PARODY/SPOOF movie. Meaning it's a movie that is poking fun at OTHER movies/storylines. If u watch this and don't know that then you will definitely not understand what it is they're making fun of. If u haven't at least seen the movie "Save The Last Dance" before u watch this, then Dance Flick will seem like a big inside joke that you don't get. With that being said, there are some funny moments crammed in here, but the question is are they funny enough to outweigh the unfunny moments? The part where Megan's mom gets hit by 3 cars and then as the cars drive off separately u see LINDSAY, BRANDY, and then HALLE on the license tags all got a laugh out of me, i can't lie.

One problem is it tries to spoof WAY too many movies, it should have stuck with the whole dance spoof theme. The concept of spoofing the never ending saga of recent dance movies like Step Up & Stomp The Yard is actually brilliant idea, and could have been a...

Dance Spoof - Funny, but Overdone at Points
Background:

The Wayan brothers are well known for their comedy/spoof genre movies. Between 2001 and 2006 they produced the Scary Movie Series (4 movies). With all the recent successful dance based movies such as: Save the Last Dance, Step Up, Stomp the Yard and You Got Served, the Wayans decided to produce Dance Flick as a spoof of all these movies.

While the idea was certainly original, this film was not well executed. Firstly, it is just too short, only 83 minutes. Next the storyline did not gel properly, it seemed like they were trying to force too much into too small a space, the result being that the actors were left on a lurch trying to make everything appear to be funny.

The biggest let down of this movie is the excessive dependence on the gross jokes. They relied way too much on these, in this movie they really pushed the bar too much on the gross jokes. This was the really killer for this film.

The Spoof:

A poor guy,...

A few laughs - but give the BD supplements a shot
I was primed to give this a much lower rating as it was not that funny, but then I watched all of the special features and bumped it up a couple stars. The parody film run still appears to be trudging ahead with three more spoof films this quarter alone; This one has what appears to be the majority of the Wayans family involved (I counted 15 total on cast and crew). I laughed more at the little background stuff people will skip over (tap water labeling, the Cheney tanker, the school posters) as the sight gags did nothing for me. The writing got a few good jokes in there but I suppose growing up in the Airplane era of spoofs has me jaded as to what is funny in farce films.

The Blu quality is excellent, even in the night/action/dance scenes. The DTS is used extensively and obviously by a soundtrack listing your sub gets a significant test. They apparently had the budget to make this sound and look good so you get your money's worth from that avenue. The special features...

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