The latest spoof flick from the Wayans has a success ratio of about 40/60 when it comes to the jokes, but with poor leads and zero story nothing else gives the story a reason to watch a film that will make you laugh less then half the time.
Megan is a Julliard wannabe that wasn’t able to make cut and as a result her mother died on the way to the audition, which she blames herself for in the meantime and won’t dance. Thomas is a street dancer that is in debt to an obese crime lord, Sugar Bear, due to his crew’s recent loss in an epic street battle that ended with the death of one of their contestants. They both end up attending Musical High School which is populated by stereotypical characters and rip-offs from a number of successful music franchises like Hairspray, Ray, High School Musical and others. The two slowly become an item as Megan is pushed by Thomas to dance again. Added into this are a series of spoof jokes, toilet humor, and race fueled puns and jabs that eventually lead to a final dance off.
The film like I said is fairly hit or miss across the board with the second half, of the thankfully short runtime of 83 min, being quite dull until the final dance scene. [Read more...]
Review: Dance Flick
Review: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
This French send up of Bond/Spy films is a mostly successful effort that provides the laughs and plays its cards right on most occasions.
We open up on a scene of Hubert Bonisseur (OSS 117) and his partner Jack Jefferson during WWII as they steal a set of blue prints from a Nazi officer, in a minor action set piece to start the film off with a bang. Flash forward 10 years later as we watch OSS 117 swoon an Egyptian princess out of an envelope containing the pictures of a dead Jack Jefferson, which leads Hubert to flashback to a silly game of laughter and paddle ball on a beach. French OSS decides to send Hubert to Cairo to investigate Jack’s death and to take over the chicken business that is the front for the OSS in Cairo. [Read more...]



















