SO I sat down to watch “Dance Flick” and learned it stars, and was directed by, a new generation of Wayanses — cousins, including another Damon (the star), a Damien (the director) and Craig (the co-star). Imagine the face I made: “Home Alone” meets Edvard Munch.

Craig, Damien and their uncles Keenen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon Wayans are credited with the script for this grade-school parody of “Save the Last Dance,” “Step Up,” “Stomp the Yard,” etc. Previously the senior Wayanses gave us the “Scary Movie” series and “White Chicks.” Let us just say that they have taught the next generation everything they know.

“Dance Flick” puts the oof in spoof. A break dancer spinning around on his skull until he drills through the floor? Oof. A gangster in a fat suit who demands “my piece of the pie” and is handed a piece of pie? Oof. Lady dancers who bust moves so fierce that their breasts detach? Oof.

If there exists anyone in the comedy business less funny than the Wayans clan, it’s Amy Sedaris, so she’s here, too, doing a dance teacher called “Ms. Cameltoé.” Guess what’s noticeable about her? I shuddered to think of the innocent camel who must have given his hoof for this costume.

A “High School Musical” joke consists of a Zac Efron type (whose basketball teammates are named “Peter,” “Knob” and “Weiner”) singing a song about how gay he is, in pink tights, to the tune of “Fame.” A would-be showstopper features the fat-suit guy singing “And I’m Telling You My Belly’s Growlin’.” And a ballerina breaks wind.

Occasionally characters dressed up like Tracy Turnblad in “Hairspray” and Ray Charles in “Ray” pop up, not that they have much to do, although Ray does fall through an open manhole.

By far the funniest part of the “Dance Flick” experience was the press notes, in which I found out that supporting actor Affion Crockett is “a modern-day Sammy Davis Jr.,” “the next Jim Carrey” and “surely an entertainer to watch for. Stay tuned for Affion Crockett, a k a Oskamill, for he has only just begun.” If you say so, Oskamill.

Keenen, by contrast, is “an entertainment renaissance man who has built a Hollywood empire,” while Damien “has taken full advantage of the knowledge bestowed upon him by the brilliant Wayans brothers and is now blazing his own trail through Hollywood.” His family is “legendary.” Like the Bourbons? Look what happened to them. I’m just sayin’.

Meanwhile, Damon Jr. “followed in his father’s comedic footsteps and braved the world of stand-up comedy under the pseudonym Kyle Green” and “later performed in the series ‘My Wife and Kids’ and landed a job as a staff writer on the series, becoming, at age 20, the youngest staff writer in television.” Was he still using the pseudonym? Did it fool his father, the show’s co-creator?



Zero stars Damonically awful.

Running time: 80 minutes. Rated PG-13 (crude sexual humor, profanity). At the E- Walk, the Magic Johnson, the 84th Street, others.

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