Upright Citizens Brigade’s ‘Freak Dance’ Trailer

UPDATE:As co-writer/director Matt Besser has explained in the comments below, the trailer went public prematurely and it’s been taken down until a release date has been secured. We’ll update when it’s live again.

For all those who have grown weary from the constant surge of spoofs that rely more on topicality than actual jokes, this could be the antidote. From the creators of the Upright Citizens Brigade comesFreak Dance, a self-described “hilarious, in-your-face major motion picture musical about good, evil, dance, saving dance from evil for good, and the greatest love story ever told…about dancers”.

If the film bears any similarity to the Wayans brothers' latest spoofDance Flick, pay no mind. The UCB — afrequently hilariousimprov and sketch comedy group whose TV show ran for three seasons on Comedy Central in the late ’90s — first developedFreak Danceasa live showwell before that movie existed, and it played so well that now they’ve made it into a movie. Watch the trailer after the break.

I’m a fan of Upright Citizens Brigade — and in particularAmy Poehler— so naturally I’m already biased in favor of the film. It looks like an absurdly silly good time, and more importantly, it looks funny. (The “Safety Dance” bit is gold.)

Best of all, the film makes great use of terms like “pennis-rubbing” and “rapey”.

Watch the trailer below.

Is anybody else as psyched as I am that this is a legitimate musical? Normally the only time we get to see musical comedies is when Trey Parker decides to grace us with another movie, so to find out this would be one was a nice surprise.

Freak Danceis written and directed by UCB co-founderMatt Besser, and co-directed byNeil Mahoney. It stars familiar faces such as Amy Poehler,Tim MeadowsandHoratio Sanz. No release date is currently set.

Here’s the plot synopsis for the UCB live show, which also describes the film to a tee:

Yo yo, step into the streets…of BROADWAY! This new hilarious, no-hold barred musical spoof takes a jab at every teen dance movie of the last two decades. Watch the clique “rich bitch” try to join the ranks of the poor street dancers, and fall in love with the leader of this rag-tag bunch, Funky Bunch. Join an epic battle between good and evil, as “the Fantazies” go head-to-head with “Dazzles”, two waring dance troops, the Fantasies, in dance fight battle royale, as only UCB could bring.