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Dance Flick (2009)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | May 22, 2009
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
EW's GRADE
B

Details Release Date: May 22, 2009; Genre: Comedy; With: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans

Dance Flick (Left to right) Damon Wayans, Jr., Shoshana Bush, Christina Murphy and Ross Thomas
Image credit: Glen Wilson
Dance Flick (Left to right) Damon Wayans, Jr., Shoshana Bush, Christina Murphy and Ross Thomas

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. The film riffs on Save the Last Dance, Hairspray, and High School Musical 3, but what's funniest is its dissection of message-movie piety. In Dance Flick, racial and sexual differences aren't transcended — they're super-sized. As a rotund hoodlum, David Alan Grier does the ultimate break dance from hell. B

Originally posted May 22, 2009 Published in issue #1050 Jun 05, 2009 Order article reprints
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