What “Dance Flick” does instead is trot out re-creations of scenes from “Save the Last Dance,” “Step Up,” “You Got Served,” etc., and alter them not by satirizing their content but by having the characters get punched in the face or urinated on. Her new best friend, Charity (Essence Atkins), has a baby that she brings to school with her Charity’s brother, Thomas (Damon Wayans Jr.), becomes Megan’s love interest and dance partner.Īs usual, the subject matter is ripe for parody, if only someone would get around to actually parodying it. (Viewers who don’t recall the details of that film’s story will have to take my word for it that much of what happens in “Dance Flick” is in reference to it.) A white girl from the suburbs, Megan (Shoshana Bush), gives up ballet after her mother’s death and moves to the inner city, where most of her new classmates are black hip-hop dancers. The Wayanses - five Wayans writers, one of whom also directed, plus several more Wayanses in the cast - have chosen teen-oriented dance movies as their target, with the plot of “Save the Last Dance,” a $91 million hit from early 2001, as the framework. They stuck to the formula in every other way, producing a rancid concoction so thunderously un-amusing, so jaw-droppingly wrongheaded, that it’s a frontrunner for worst movie - I’m sorry, worst flick - of 2009. ![]() Or so I thought! Now the Wayanses have come back to the trend they launched, and while they’re apparently trying to distance themselves from last year’s flops by calling their new spoof “Dance Flick” rather than “Dance Movie,” it doesn’t matter. Their 2008 double-whammy of “Meet the Spartans” (working title: “Epic Movie 2”) and “Disaster Movie” represented the absolute nadir of frenetic, unfunny parodies. After the awful “Scary Movie 2,” the Wayanses got out of the genre to focus on garish misfires like “White Chicks” and “Little Man,” while two of the “Scary Movie” co-writers, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, took the lead in running the idea into the ground. ![]() The recent glut of generically titled spoofs like “Epic Movie” and “Date Movie” began in 2000, with “Scary Movie,” which was the brainchild of several members of the Wayans family.
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