Dance Flick

Dance Flick
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Damien Dante Wayans
Produced by	Damien Dante Wayans Keenen Ivory Wayans Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans
Written by	Damien Dante Wayans Keenen Ivory Wayans Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Craig Wayans
Starring	Damon Wayans, Jr. Shoshana Bush Essence Atkins Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Brennan Hillard
Music by	Erik Willis Dwayne Wayans
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Editing by	Jeff Cummerhill
Studio	MTV Films Wayans Bros. Entertainment
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	May 22, 2009 (2009-05-22)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million[1]
Box office	$31,439,140[1]

Dance Flick is a 2009 American comedy directed by Damien Dante Wayans, written by his uncles, the Wayans Brothers, and starring Damon Wayans, Jr., and Shoshana Bush. The film is a spoof of the popular dance film genre. It was set for release in North America on February 6, 2009, but was moved to August 2009, then to May 22, 2009.

Plot

Suburban girl Megan (Shoshana Bush) gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas (Damon Wayans, Jr.) is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a hungry obese gang lord (David Alan Grier) who only loves food. Megan later befriends Thomas' ghetto sister Charity (Essence Atkins) who has a baby but also 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 and start dating.

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
• Brennan Hillard as Jack
• Chris Elliott as Ron White (Megan's Dad)
• 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 O. Gore II as Ray
• Tichina Arnold as Ray's Mama
• Lauren Bowles as Glynn White (Megan's Mom)

Release and reception

Critical

The film's critical reception was generally negative. It received a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, giving it a "rotten" score. On Metacritic, it got a 40/100 "mixed or average" score, based on 17 critic reviews.^[2]

Box office

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] The film covered its production budget, making it a moderate success.

Parodies

• Footloose
• Chappelle's Show (I'm Rick James, Bitch During the Dance Audition to Superfreak)
• Save the Last Dance
• 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 slip at the beginning and last battle)
• Step Up (Nora's auditioning dancers)
• Flashdance (the warm-up)
• Step Up 2: The Streets (last battle)
• Hairspray (Tracy Transfat)
• Singin' in the Rain
• 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")
• The House Bunny (the scene prior to Megan's arrest)
• Final Destination 2 (the scene where Megan's mom was in a crash)
• How She Move (cut from final print)
• 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, and the name of the high school)
• 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)
• 1 Night in Paris (Megan and Nora fight)
• Ray (the blind guy named Ray and his mom)
• Little Shop of Horrors and Dreamgirls (the "And I Am Telling You My Belly's Growling" song)
• Edward Scissorhands (Edward "Trigger"-hands)
• Enchanted and/or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Megan's singing scene with the rats and the birds)
• Final Destination series (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
• White Chicks
• Alice in Wonderland (when Thomas is hanging on the pole is like when Alice is hanging on the doorknob)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (the dance-battle host mixing up Thomas's crew's name- "Uncle Toms" instead of "Thomas Uncle")
• Dream Girls (Sugar Bear Hungary song)
• Alfie (U Can't Touch This)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Dance Flick (2009)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=danceflick.htm. Retrieved November 20, 2010. 
2. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/danceflick
3. ^ Dance Flick (2009) - Weekend Box Office Results = Box Office Mojo

External links

• Official website
• Dance Flick at the Internet Movie Database
• Dance Flick at Box Office Mojo
• Dance Flick at Rotten Tomatoes
• Shawn and Damien Wayans: The Dance Flick interview with Kam Williams