Dance-battle movies are all over the place (see: Stomp the Yard, the Step Up mega-franchise) but a Dance Dance Revolution battle movie? That’s something else entirely.
Enter The FP — a film that wraps all the cheesy trash-talking of a dance-battle flick in a kung-fu-meets-The Warriors vibe. It sounds, in a word, awesome.
The movie, which was recently picked up for distribution by Drafthouse Films, is straight out of the turf-battle handbook. Two rival gangs fight for dance dominance on a videogame called Beat-Beat Revelation (so, no, it’s not actually DDR) at an underground spot called Frazier Park — the “FP” of the film’s title.
As predictable as that all sounds, based on the (somewhat NSFW) clip below it seems the film is 100 percent self-aware enough to bring the well-worn subject onto new turf. Also, it is directed by brothers Jason and Brandon Trost. Brandon is a cinematographer for films like MacGruber and Crank: High Voltage, so maybe he knows a thing or two about how to make a whole lot of comedy and action look good in all the right overwrought ways.
The FP, which premiered at South By Southwest in 2011, is scheduled to be released in early 2012.
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