Dance Flick

Dance Flick
Dance Flick
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Damien Dante Wayans
Written by	Keenen Ivory Wayans; Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans; Craig Wayans; Damien Dante Wayans;
Produced by	Keenen Ivory Wayans; Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans; Rick Alvarez; Reid O’Rourke;
Starring	Shoshana Bush; Damon Wayans Jr.; Essence Atkins; Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans; Keenen Ivory Wayans; David Alan Grier; Chris Elliott; Affion Crockett; Lochlyn Munro; Tichina Arnold; George Gore II; Christina Murphy; Kim Wayans; Amy Sedaris;
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Edited by	Jeff Cummerhill
Music by	Erik D. Willis; Dwayne Wayans;
Production; company	Wayans Brothers
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures; MTV Films;
Release date	May 22, 2009;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$32 million

Dance Flick is a 2009 American musical comedy film directed by Damien Dante Wayans in his directorial debut and written by and starring many members of the Wayans family. The film was set for release in the United States on February 6, 2009, and changed to May 22, 2009.

Plot

Suburban girl Megan White (Shoshana Bush) gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans Jr.) is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a gang lord (David Alan Grier).

Megan later befriends Thomas’ sister Charity (Essence Atkins) who has a baby and poor parenting skills. Charity has her own issues dealing with her dimwitted "baby daddy" (Shawn Wayans) who also is a bad parent. Once Megan and Thomas spend more time together, they become dance partners and begin to fall in love.

Cast

Shoshana Bush as Megan White
Damon Wayans Jr. as Thomas Uncles
Essence Atkins as Charity Uncles
Affion Crockett as A-Con
Shawn Wayans as Baby Daddy
Amy Sedaris as Ms. Cameltoé
David Alan Grier as Sugar Bear
Chelsea Makela as Tracy Transfat
Chris Elliott as Ron White (Megan's Dad)
Brennan Hillard as Jack
Lochlyn Munro as The Coach (Jack's Dad)
Christina Murphy as Nora
Marlon Wayans as Mr. Moody
Kim Wayans as Ms. Dontwannabebothered
Keenen Ivory Wayans as Mr. Stache
Craig Wayans as Truck
Ross Thomas as Tyler Gage
George Gore II as Ray Charles
Tichina Arnold as Aretha Robinson (Ray's Mamma)
Lauren Bowles as Glynn White (Megan's Mom)
Sufe Bradshaw as Keloid
Andrew McFarlane as D
Casey Lee as Undercover Cop
Chaunté Wayans as Free Gas Pedestrian

Release

On the opening weekend (May 22–24), the film ranked at No. 5 in the top 10 with $10,643,536 in 2,450 theaters.^[3]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 18% of 95 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 3.49/10. The site's consensus reads: "Dance Flick scores a few laughs thanks to the Wayans brothers' exuberance, but it's ultimately a scattershot collection of gags without much direction."^[4] On Metacritic, it got a 40/100 "mixed or average" score based on 17 critic reviews.^[5] Peter Deburge of Variety wrote that it "delivers just enough laughs to justify its existence".^[6]

Parodies

Footloose
Chappelle's Show (I'm Rick James, Bitch During the Dance Audition to Super Freak)
Save the Last Dance (characters and main plotline; promotional poster)
You Got Served (the first battle in the movie/the character of Sugar Bear and the fact that Thomas and A-Con owe him money by the end of the next week or else)
Stomp the Yard (the head slide at the beginning and last battle)
Step Up (Nora's auditioning dancers)
Flashdance (the warm-up)
Step Up 2: The Streets (last battle)
Enchanted (2007 film) (singing scene with rats and roaches)
Hairspray (Tracy Transfat)
Dirty Dancing (cut from final print)
Mamma Mia! (cut from final print, can be briefly seen in international trailer)
Little Miss Sunshine (Megan's audition to "Super Freak")
Final Destination 2 (the scene where Megan's mom was in a crash)
How She Move (cut from final print)
Showgirls
Black Snake Moan (the scene where Megan is chained to the radiator and Thomas looks like, and quotes the Samuel L. Jackson character)
High School Musical (the character of Jack wanting to be a dancer, the name of the high school, and the basketball scene in the gym.)
Fame (Jack's Flame sequence)
Honey (mentioned in rant)
Bring It On
Center Stage (dance class scene)
Twilight (the prom scene)
Roll Bounce (mentioned in rant; last battle scene)
Notorious
Superbad (Megan's ID card identifies her as "McLovin")
Catwoman (the scene when Megan's mom gets run over/hit and run)
Ray (the blind guy named Ray Charles and his mom)
Dreamgirls (the "And I Am Telling You My Belly's Growling" song)
Edward Scissorhands (Edward "Trigger"-hands)
Final Destination (when Megan's dad shows her room)
Crash (the car crash)
America's Best Dance Crew
Coyote Ugly
So You Think You Can Dance
ATL
Brokeback Mountain (the two cowboys in the gay song)
Roots (Mr. Moody's film)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Dance Flick". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Dance Flick (2009)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
^ "Dance Flick (2009) - Weekend Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
^ "Dance Flick (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
^ "Dance Flick". Metacritic.
^ Debruge, Peter (2009-05-21). "Review: 'Dance Flick'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-04-23.

External links

[afi-1] "Dance Flick". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

[mojo-2] "Dance Flick (2009)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved November 20, 2010.

[3] "Dance Flick (2009) - Weekend Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.

[4] "Dance Flick (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 6, 2019.

[5] "Dance Flick". Metacritic.

[6] Debruge, Peter (2009-05-21). "Review: 'Dance Flick'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-04-23.

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v t e MTV Films
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2000s	The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) Save the Last Dance (2001) Pootie Tang (2001) Zoolander (2001) Orange County (2002) Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) Crossroads (2002) Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002) Jackass: The Movie (2002) The Fighting Temptations (2003) Tupac: Resurrection (2003) The Perfect Score (2004) Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Hustle & Flow (2005) Coach Carter (2005) Murderball (2005) The Longest Yard (2005) Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) Æon Flux (2005) Jackass Number Two (2006) Freedom Writers (2007) Blades of Glory (2007) Beneath (2007) How She Move (2008) The Foot Fist Way (2008) Stop-Loss (2008) Dance Flick (2009)
2010s	Jackass 3D (2010) Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) Footloose (2011) Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) Project Almanac (2015) Eli (2019)
2020s	76 Days (2020) Finding Yingying (2020) 17 Blocks (2021) Jackass Forever (2022) Three Months (2022) Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Related	Beavis and Butt-Head (franchise) Jackass (franchise)

v t e Works by Keenen Ivory Wayans
Films directed	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988, also writer) A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994, also writer) Scary Movie (2000) Scary Movie 2 (2001) White Chicks (2004, also produced and writer) Little Man (2006, also produced and writer)
Films produced only	Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) Dance Flick (2009, also writer)
Films written only	Hollywood Shuffle (1987) The Five Heartbeats (1991) Most Wanted (1997)
TV series created	In Living Color (1990–94)