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Avg. Critic Score: 40 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    The Wayans brothers manage to squeeze it all in to consistently amusing effect and in a way that just barely manages to stay within those PG-13 parameters. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Its belly laughs leave you feeling liberated and not guilty; I repeat, not guilty. Read full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    The more pertinent question: Can the audience stick with this flick that showed most of its funny bits in the trailer? For the most part, yeah. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Dance Flick occasionally hits its mark with nimble execution. But too often it stumbles clumsily into bad taste. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    The miss-and-hit parodies score best when focusing on the Julia Stiles-styled girl next door. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    This slapstick and scatological spoof settles for obvious punchlines, delivering just enough laughs to justify its existence without coming anywhere near the bar set by "Scary Movie." Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post |

    There are two dance-offs, multiple fat jokes and one sight gag using eye boogers, a heretofore ignored bodily fluid. These are the highlights. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    It's surprising how dated some of the humor is. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe |

    If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Dumb spoof is too raunchy, gross for tweens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this lowbrow comedy is much raunchier than the teen-friendly dance movies it's spoofing. There's lots of gross-out humor, including a character's head literally going up his butt, a fat man squashing a thinner man in a dance battle, and more. Sexuality includes references to teen pregnancy, penis size, baby daddies/mommas, and pole dancing; a couple also kisses and has off-camera sex. The violence is obviously fake and cartoonish; language ranges from "damn" to "s--t" but isn't extreme.
  • Families can talk about the movie's over-the-top, nonstop style of parody. Are all of the movie references funny, or does the sheer number lessen the comedic impact? 
  • The movie casually mocks interracial relationships and teen pregnancy, but is either situation all that humorous?
  • Is this style of spoof still relevant?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Nothing is off limits for the movie's spoofy humor, and there are tons of stereotypes -- about everything from the kind of suits that black men wear ("Kool-Aid red" and "Djimon Hounsou black"), to how gay teens (and P.E. teachers) act, to the concept of baby daddies and baby mommas. Lots of potty/gross-out humor.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: This is a silly, spoofy comedy, and there aren't very many role models. On the one hand, the protagonist couple is interracial, which promotes diversity -- but on the other hand, they try to hide their relationship around others.
What to watch for
  • violence false2 Violence: Fake violence is played for laughs, like when the protagonist's mother is killed in a prolonged, jokey car-accident sequence or when someone is squashed by an obese man during a dance-off. A popular nightspot is called "Club Violence," and patrons frequently wave their guns. A character is killed doing a ridiculous acrobatic dance move.
  • sex false4 Sex: Lots of jokes about penis size, interracial dating, condoms, sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, "baby daddies," and "vaginocology." A teacher named "Ms. Cameltoe" sports an obvious camel toe. In terms of actual sex scenes, there aren't any, but one couple kisses on a few occasions and admits to having (off-camera) sex.
  • language false3 Language: Includes "s--t," "dick," and "ass," as well as milder statements like "what the hell," "oh my God," and "goddamn."
  • consumerism false1 Consumerism: Non-stop references to other movies.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false2 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink (at nightclubs), and in one scene a father orders a drink for his baby and then gives it to him with a straw (off camera).
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