10 Greatest Unexpected Dance Scenes In Film
Time was, you fancied a spot of dancing in your film; you saw a musical. Now, having inexplicably become a genre in itself, the demand for dance movies has never been higher. Yet it's fair to say that ninety minutes of backflips, bodypops and contrived interracial romances are not to everyone's tastes. And so the studios' uneasy relationship with the dance scene has resulted in many films trying to slip it past us like a musical Mickey Finn. Think Tyler Durden groovin' to hide Marla from the police. Think Matthew Patel threatening Scott Pilgrim through song. Think Peter Parker tearing up that jazz club in Spider-Man 3. Actually, no. Don't think that. Whether it lies in wait for the right song to come along or tucks itself away into the closing credits, the dance scene can still work as one of cinema's greatest surprises. Listed below are ten of the finest examples ever to have sprung, shuffled or shimmied out of nowhere. Contains spoilers...