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Pooling together all their funny business DNA, the
Wayans clan, including Keenan Ivory, Damon and Shawn, team
up with the next grossout generation counting Damien Dante,
Damon Jr. and Craig Wayans, for Dance Flick. Fed up with
the cookie cutter, sappy afterschool special sensibility
of all those footloose teen musicals, the Wayans tribe goes
for the jugular with its down 'n dirty trademark humor,
barely clinging to a PG-13 rating.***
Damon Wayans, Jr. takes charge of the overly crowded
spotlight as Thomas Uncles (a moniker custom fit for dyslexic
funny bones). He's an inner city dance sensation drawn to
the equally talented Megan (Shoshana Bush), a white suburban
aspiring ballerina forced to downsize her dreams and enroll,
to her dismay, in a rowdy ghetto high school following the
death of her single mom. And if you haven't figured out
yet where this derivative mock flick is headed, then you
probably don't get out to the movies much.***
This hyperactive hip hop satire is at its outrageous
best when sticking to parody of whatever dance flicks came
before. While Essence Atkins just about upstages every last
Wayans with her sparkling ballsy coed attitude, as a righteously
babbling baby mama who is nobody's fool, but there's an
awful lot of crude conversation tossed in too, as when we're
supposed to laugh on cue as a weeping Megan is forced to
watch a giddy musical about her mother's demise.
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