Dance Flick: Critic Reviews

In this enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals, the Wayans brothers hand the directorial reigns over to their nephew, Damien Dante Wayans, who piles on the stupid/smart gags with just the right what-the-hell abandon.

Its belly laughs leave you feeling liberated and not guilty; I repeat, not guilty.

Dance Flick occasionally hits its mark with nimble execution. But too often it stumbles clumsily into bad taste.

The jokes here aren't just low-hanging fruit, they are fruit lazily taken out of the moldy pile.

If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.

Yes, it's rated PG-13, except it's also inappropriate for anyone over 13.

There's an art to making a good spoof, but good luck finding it in Dance Flick.

Dance Flick is a movie that will make you yearn for the subtle humor and profound character exploration of White Chicks.

This send-up, created in large part by new-generation family members Damon Jr., Craig and Damien Dante Wayans, possesses a more nimble comic footing.

Can the audience stick with this flick that showed most of its funny bits in the trailer? For the most part, yeah.

The clumsy result is what the teen target aud might call a "dance fail."

If there exists anyone in the comedy business less funny than the Wayans clan, it's Amy Sedaris, so she's here, too.

All the Wayans in the world (Keenen Ivory Wayans and the least funny of the gang, Shawn Wayans, were lead Wayans' in the all-Wayans script) can't keep this from running out of mildly amusing ideas after 40 minutes.

What it isn't is subtle, smart or particularly funny.

The storylines function as thin threads to hold together set pieces, which mainly work thanks to tight writing and fast pacing (dud scenes, and there are several, breeze past).

Not a perfect 10, but the Wayans crew hit their mark more than they miss.

The material is weak, the focus is too narrow, the pacing is laboured, as if the editors were cutting in anticipation of the laugh track.

I'm trying to think of something nice to say about this movie but I'm drawing a blank.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a genre that has met with some success must be in want of parody.

This intermittently funny spoof on dance movies has more Wayans in it than actual laughs.

The main problem is its sheer laziness. Where the likes of Airplane! ...had a soft spot for the genre they were satirising and used that to cleverly subvert expectations and provide surprises, everything about Dance Flick is tame.

I's even more depressing that the laughs are tumbleweed-thin on the ground and so unfathomably groan-worthy.

A musical spoof with two left feet and no rhythm.