4.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Sweet, innocent Megan's ballet dreams are shattered when she is forced to attend an inner-city high school where she meets Thomas, a young hip-hop dancer from the wrong side of the tracks. With a new crew of friends, can this suburban girl with no street "cred" step up her game and archive her dreams? It's the mother of all dance-offs...and dance movies!
Starring: Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins, Affion CrockettComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 0.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
And now for something completely different:
Announcer: "Dance Flick is on Blu-ray!"
*crickets...*
Announcer: "I said, "'Dance Flick is on Blu-ray!'"
Captain Ramius: "Now they
will tremble again -- at the sound of our silence."
Announcer: "Is this thing on?"
"................................................"
The End.
Yeah. Bad movie. Really bad movie. Sorry. I got nothin'.
Punch me. Kick me. Just don't make me watch 'Dance Flick.'
Dance Flick steps up on Blu-ray with a quality 1080p, 1.78:1-framed transfer. The movie might be garbage, but the transfer is far from being worthy of the scrap heap. There's little grain to speak of, but the image takes on a consistently strong, colorful, and detailed appearance. It doesn't match or best the absolute finest transfers on the market, but there's nothing overtly wrong with this one, either. Detail impresses both far and wide; even distant objects retain a vibrancy, clarity, and distinction that can make the transfer a pleasure to look at, assuming one can tune out the actual content of what's on-screen. Colors take on a natural appearance that captures the vibrant palette found throughout the movie nicely. From dark blue and purples to bright reds and yellows, this colorful transfer consistently jumps off the screen with eye-pleasing results. With adequate black levels and skin tones, Dance Flick looks just fine, should anyone care to watch it.
Dance Flick stomps onto Blu-ray with a strong DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless soundtrack. Much like the video transfer, this audio mix is far superior to the film and should please those that choose to give this disc a spin. It should come as no surprise that Dance Flick's soundtrack is heavy on the music, and it never disappoints. The track's most noted trait is its use of hard-hitting bass. There's plenty of Hip Hop music that positively blares throughout the movie, and it's accompanied by a chest-rattling level of bass. Aside from the thunderous low end, there's a fine amount of crispness and clarity to the music that, all together, makes for a very good listen. Dance Flick also features a fair amount of atmosphere; club scenes come alive with background information that does well to immerse the listener into the locale. The thudding bass is still present, but it's sufficiently lessened to allow dialogue to play through with the same level of clarity that's to be found throughout the film.
Dance Flick features a few scattered extras. Dance Dance Dance! With the Wayans Wayans Wayans! (1080p, 21:10) is a standard behind-the-scenes piece that looks at why the movie is timely in its take on the modern Dance genre. It looks at the films it lampoons, the dance choreography, the strengths of the various cast members, the story behind each of the main characters, and more. The piece is assembled with the usual array of cast and crew interview clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and segments from the film. Dancing Outtakes (1080p, 2:26) features some dance footage that's absent the "comedy" that accompanies such scenes in the film. Also included are five deleted scenes (1080p, 8:16) and the film's theatrical trailer (1080p, 2:27).
No wonder Paramount chose not to promote Dance Flick via the online Blu-ray community. The disc itself is sound enough -- it features satisfactory video and audio presentations and a couple of extras -- but the movie is absolutely abysmal despite a few scattered yet cheap laughs. This recent wave of "Parody" movies gives the genre a bad name, and Dance Flick comes dangerously close to sinking it even further thanks to its take on movies that aren't exactly ingrained into the movie-going public's conscience, making the job of lampooning them all the more difficult. What's next, a parody of direct-to-video action duds? Shoot, that might even work better than this. By any reasonable measure, Dance Flick is a putrid motion picture. Boogie, jig, waltz, tango, hustle, tap, or two-step away from this one. Fast.
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