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A few years back Soshana Bush, the 20 year-old blonde female lead in Damien Wayans' Dance Flick (Paramount, 5.22), attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, just north of San Francisco, in the same class as my son Jett. They didn't run with the same crowd, Jett says, but they half knew each other. So it seems appropriate that Jett should catch a screening of Dance Flick in Manhattan this week and review it for Hollywood Elsewhere.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM

comment #1

PastePotPete says ...

CGI babies make me want to vomit.

These spoof movies overall, in fact, are my idea of Hell. Stuck in a dark room being forced to watch desperate actors making strained attempts at humor while around you people bray with laughter and you look down at them until you realize you paid for the privilege of being one of them.

This whole form of humor has been on downward slope since Naked Gun 2 1/2 and shockingly has not found a bottom yet. Scary Movie at the time seemed to me to be the nadir, yet today I'd watch that 5 times in a row before I watched this Dance Movie once.

Looking forward to your son's review, though obviously I'm disinclined from ever watching this film.

Posted by PastePotPete at May 13, 2009 12:53 AM

comment #2

hunterd says ...

And by appropriate you mean, "A probable conflict of interest that you're willing to ignore because you think this thing might get hits but you don't really want to watch it yourself", right?

I hope it's at least a legit screening and not some hype machine thing for college students.

Though honestly, I am half interested to see if this is any good and if it can reverse the stream of crappy spoof flicks.

Posted by hunterd at May 13, 2009 12:55 AM

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

When this movie gets fucking slaaaaaughtered by TERMINATOR and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM can this genre please die?

Posted by BurmaShave at May 13, 2009 1:16 AM

comment #4

actionman says ...

But that's the thing, Burma -- Dance Flick won't bomb. Sure, it won't make as much as Museum or Terminator, but this movie will be profitable because of the urban audience it will attract. And the PG-13 rating will help.

As far as these things go (and I never see spoof movies), it actually looks kind of amusing. I never saw White Chicks because it looked monumentally retarded, but there are definitely a few funny bits in the Dance Flick trailer. Still, would never pay to see it in the theater. It's the sort of movie I'd rent from Netflix so I can get wasted while watching it in the privacy of my own home.

Posted by actionman at May 13, 2009 5:34 AM

comment #5

DavidF says ...

The trailer looked horrific when I saw it, though I must confess the "There's no I in team..." bit was rather clever.

Posted by DavidF at May 13, 2009 6:19 AM

comment #6

actionman says ...

DavidF -- yes, the movie does look terrible overall, but it also looks moderately humorous.

Posted by actionman at May 13, 2009 6:26 AM

comment #7

berkguru says ...

leave it to actionaman to tout this piece of shit as promising

Posted by berkguru at May 13, 2009 7:17 AM

comment #8

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

haha... oh my god this movie looks so stupid and hilariously awful. and I agree with the 1st comment-- CGI babies are nasty.

Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk at May 13, 2009 7:29 AM

comment #9

cinefan says ...

wow, a comedy that spoofs a Julia Stiles film which came out, like, ten years ago...how incredibly timely!

Posted by cinefan at May 13, 2009 7:35 AM

comment #10

BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey says ...

I think it's meant to be spoofing the Step Up films and all those How She Move type stuff as well. Obviously Save the Last Dance is in as well, but there have been quite a lot of dance films in recent years so I guess it makes sense to spoof them.

I laughed like a drain at the Hot Shots and Naked Gun movies when I was a kid.

Posted by BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey at May 13, 2009 7:44 AM

comment #11

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

"I laughed like a drain at the Hot Shots and Naked Gun movies when I was a kid."

Me too, me too....God, I loved those silly-ass ZAZ films growing up (still do!). Top Secret! and Airplane!, in addition to the HS and NG series.

Having said all that, I couldn't really get up the nerve to click on the trailer. Never really appreciated the genre, so I find it hard to believe I'd appreciate a parody of the genre, either.

Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum at May 13, 2009 8:17 AM

comment #12

televisiontears says ...

It will take this shitstain ninety minutes to fail miserably at what it took South Park twenty-two to succeed at. The "she killed her mom with her dance moves" scene is even flat-out stolen from that episode.

Posted by televisiontears at May 13, 2009 1:14 PM