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You can dance if you want to. People just might not want to see it.

Kim Hollis: Dance Flick opened to $13.1 million over four days. Are North American audiences officially on the outs with spoof films?

Dan Krovich: What genre is left to spoof at this point? Of course, the budgets for these movies are pretty low so it's not like they have to make a lot to keep getting made.

David Mumpower: This is significantly more than tracking had indicated, so I would call it a (very) minor win. The phenomenon that is becoming fun to study is how much more quickly word-of-mouth travels in the social media era. Anyone who has been to a critics' screening lately will acknowledge that studios are giving very stern warnings about the entire process. They're (rightfully) freaked out about how quickly word gets out. Dance Flick appears to have gotten the benefit of some quick thumbs up on Twitter, Facebook and the like, which is a bit shocking given the reviews and the early Yahoo/IMDb comments.

Tim Briody: Dan, we're inching closer to Movie Movie, in which the film viewers are watching is immediately subjected to a spoof version in the scene immediately following.





Scott Lumley: Wasn't that already done in Spaceballs?

Max Braden: If audiences didn't learn their lesson half a dozen movies ago...

Brandon Scott: I loathe these films in general (as an aside, wasn't there a Sci-Fi Movie that is supposed to come out?), but in this case, I think the "dance" portion of this is probably a year to a year and a half late - at least. I mean, they are spoofing Save the Last Dance in this, which is eight years old. It makes no sense, but the Wayans family is a Hollywood factory that will never really go away. Gags will always find a way to scare up a few bucks, just like another torture porn flick will.

Reagen Sulewski: After the damage done by the non-Wayansed Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie, I think they actually felt it was their duty to reclaim their good name. No, really. I mean, even though these spoofs have near uniformly been terrible, there are levels of suck. That this rose a little above the mire isn't entirely unexpected given the practice this family has had at making these movies.

Jim Van Nest: I'm trying to figure out who still goes to see spoof movies. While I'll admit to liking a couple of them (Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun), it's been 2 decades since there's been a decent one made. They ran out of jokes years ago, so who keeps showing up?

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