While she dreams of a life as a dancer, the tough streets of her new urban environment constantly remind her of the struggle ahead. There, she meets up with several standout members of the Musical High School class, including 21 year old unwed mother Charity, her talented if slightly stuck up street thug brother, Thomas Uncles, his best friend A-Con, prissy white chick Nora, and incredibly flamboyant (and very closeted) Jack. Instead of throwing every tired pop culture riff at the screen, desperate to see what sticks, the latest members of the Mad Magazine influenced crew use the classic ZAZ formula for funny business and wind up delivering something every bit as good as Airplane! or the Naked Gun films.Īfter her mother’s untimely death, Juilliard wannabe Megan travels to the big city to live with her deadbeat dad. Their first attempt at resetting the clan’s commercial fortunes is Dance Flick, and while not a perfect comedy by any stretch of the imagination, what we do have here is something fresh, inventive, exciting, and most importantly, fun. Luckily, the next generation of Wayans seems ready to return the family to greatness – or at the very least, likeability.
Apparently, they thought they knew what was coming next. In fact, when it was announced that the formerly talented team was taking up the movie mantle of films like Step Up and Save the Last Dance, audiences and critics groaned in disbelief. Where once they delivered high brow burlesque that functioned as savage social commentary, they spewed cinematic scat like Scary Movie, White Chicks, and that most miserable of motion picture experiences, Little Man. Where once they were funny, they flopped. Like those stories from our youth about falling in with the wrong crowd, the various members of Wayans nation saw commercial success blind their abilities. At a time when TV and the mainstream media saw all black people as either Huxtables or hoodlums, the Wayans crew walked the fine line between stereotype and satire brilliantly. To call them trailblazers would do their innovations a disservice. From I’m Gonna Get You Sucka to In Living Color, Keenan Ivory and his rotating band of relatives produced biting send-ups and celebrated spoofs, all with an unusual (for the time) African American slant. High School Musical (the character of Jack wanting to be a dancer, the name of the high school, and the basketball scene in the gym.Believe it or not, there was a time when the name Wayans didn’t instantly incur the wrath of comedy fans everywhere.Black Snake Moan (the scene where Megan is chained to the radiator and Thomas looks like, and quotes the Samuel L.Final Destination 2 (the scene where Megan's mom was in a crash).Little Miss Sunshine (Megan's audition to " Super Freak").Mamma Mia! (cut from final print, can be briefly seen in international trailer).Stomp the Yard (the head slip at the beginning and last battle).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).Save the Last Dance (characters and main plotline promotional poster).Chappelle's Show (I'm Rick James, Bitch During the Dance Audition to Super Freak).Peter Deburge of Variety wrote that it "delivers just enough laughs to justify its existence". 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. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 18% of 95 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating is 3.49/10. On the opening weekend (May 22–24), the film ranked at No. Lauren Bowles as Glynn White (Megan's Mom).Tichina Arnold as Aretha Robinson (Ray's Mamma).Lochlyn Munro as The Coach (Jack's Dad).Chris Elliott as Ron White (Megan's Dad).Once Megan and Thomas spend more time together, they become dance partners and begin to fall in love. Charity has her own issues dealing with her dimwitted "baby daddy" ( Shawn Wayans) who also is a bad parent. Megan later befriends Thomas' ghetto sister Charity ( Essence Atkins) who has a baby and poor parenting skills. A nerdy street boy named Thomas Uncles ( Damon Wayans Jr.) is passionate about street dancing, but he is stuck working for a gang lord ( David Alan Grier). Suburban girl Megan White ( Shoshana Bush) gets into a series of misadventures when she moves to the inner-city and pursues dance.
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