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16Nov2008

I'm So Sorry: It's the 'Dance Flick' Trailer

DateSunday, November 16, 2008 at 7:41AM
I don't think we need an official ruling on this, because how good could a trailer for Dance Flick actually be?

Here's the problem with making this movie, or at least making it this way: All of these dance movies are almost all parodies of themselves now, to the point that making fun of their threadbare genre riffs doesn't even require a satire. We know they're all the same. And we know they're lame.

That's the difference between a movie like this and a movie like Blazing Saddles or Airplane! For example, Airplane! managed to make fun of the structure of 1970s disaster movies on a very basic level, but the real jokes were in the dialogue and not in recognizing that the plane was going to crash. The disaster was in every movie, but the comedy in Airplane! is character-driven, not plot-driven.

Blazing Saddles is not remembered as much for its jokes about Westerns as it is for its jokes about everything else. The genre is less important than the rest of the comedy.

But that lesson is surely lost on the Wayans clan, who introduces a new director, Damien Dante Wayans. See, even the family appears to be parodying itself now.  


Get yer trailer on at MovieWeb

Dance Flick will play to mostly empty theaters beginning February 6th.

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Wow! The dancing baby from Ally McBeal? Who let this happen?

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterChristian Avila

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