Dance Flick


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. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics.

Plot

Suburban girl Megan White gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance. A nerdy street boy named Thomas Uncles is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a gang lord.
Megan later befriends Thomas’ sister Charity who has a baby and poor parenting skills. Charity has her own issues dealing with her dimwitted "baby daddy" 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

On the opening weekend, the film ranked at No. 5 in the top 10 with $10,643,536 in 2,450 theaters.

Reception

, 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." On Metacritic, it got a 40/100 "mixed or average" score based on 17 critic reviews. Peter Deburge of Variety wrote that it "delivers just enough laughs to justify its existence".