‘Dance Flick’ a comic misstep with vicious undertones

Essence Atkins and Shoshana Bush in "Dance Flick" Charity (Essence Atkins), left, stores her baby before going off to class with Megan (Shoshana Bush) in the comic spoof “Dance Flick.”

Hardly a filmgoer on the planet will go into see the latest Wayans brothers spoof, “Dance Flick,” and not know what to expect: A threadbare plot stuffed with pop movie references, tasteless gross-outs, exaggerated stereotypes and lampooned genre clichés.

The most audacious of the Wayans brothers canon remains 2000’s “Scary Movie,” a parody of the tongue-in-cheek horror film “Scream” and a bold flirtation with X-rated visual gags that stretched the R rating to its snapping point. (Read more…)

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