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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is a 1984 movie about breakdancing, and a sequel to the same year's (you heard us, the same year). Kelly, Ozone, and Turbo are members of a group of street kids that frequent the community center Miracles, where they're working over the summer. But a greedy land developer is planning to bulldoze Miracles and build a shopping center! The kids must band together to save their neighborhood.
At the same time, Kelly and Ozone must deal with their conflicted feelings toward each other, as Kelly considers taking an acting job in Paris, and Turbo embarks on a quest to find a girl.; most of the movie is just dancing. The movie was a pretty big flop, and regarded as an entirely unnecessary sequel; today, it's best known for the ' joke, used to refer to any pointless or strangely-named sequel. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo provides examples of the following tropes:.: appears at the end, reprising his role from the first Breakin'.
This was before he was all that famous.: Basically every conflict in the film is settled via dancing. This includes a rumble between two street gangs.: Naturally. Right alongside the Dance Party Beginning and Dance Party Middle!.: Breakin' 2 is this to the original Breakin'. Sure, the first film featured the classic 'pinning of all hopes and dreams on succeeding on a dance audition,' but this one ratcheted up the crazy by not only using breakdancing as a means to, but also as a form of combat.
No, not like a, but rather two teams of enemies facing off, breakdancing, and then deciding —as a group— who won the battle.: The incredibly flimsy plot is little more than a reason for the movie to exist. 90% of it is taken up by dancing scenes!.: How the patrons of Miracles hope to save it.: Ozone and Turbo dance with a doll, and Ozone sees it as Kelly and Rhonda. In this case the title is a reference to the 'electric boogaloo', a dancing style associated with 1970s hip-hop (which was just emerging), and to the signature dance style of a real-life dancing crew called 'The Electric Boogaloos' (established in 1977). The dancing crew themselves were named after the song 'Do a Boogaloo'. Brown himself based the song on the Boogaloo, a style of Latin music and dance from the 1960s. The Boogaloo as a genre was a combination of elements from Soul, rhythm and blues, mambo, and son cubano. It was popularized in the United States through performances in the television show ' (1952-1989), presented.: Much like the first movie, 'Turbo' and 'Ozone' are called by those names rather than their real names.
This time, Kelly's mom comments on their 'uniqueness.' .: There's really no point to the subplot with Kelly and that other girl, other than this.: The plot, such as it is.: James, from the original Breakin', is totally absent in this movie. His actor declined to return.: One of the songs in the movie has the words 'electric boogaloo,' spoken by an electronic voice, as the hook.
Movie musicals used to be allowed to be goofy and lightweight, but in recent years they've turned into ponderous, overbudgeted artifacts that take themselves so seriously you feel guilty if you're having a good time. Remember all the self-importance of '? That's why a modest, cheerful little movie like 'Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo' is so refreshing.
Here is a movie that wants nothing more than to allow some high-spirited kids to sing and dance their way through a silly plot just long enough to make us grin. The movie is a sequel to 1983's very successful '.' I guess that explains the ungainly title. It involves the same actors, including a team of street-dance artists named Shabba-Doo Quinones and Boogaloo Shrimp Chambers, who more or less seem to be playing themselves. The plot is so familiar that if you're a fan of musicals or even the Beach Party movies, you may start rubbing your eyes. But the movie is a lot of fun. Try this plot out on your nearest trivia expert.
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A bunch of kids get together to turn a run-down old theater into a community center. The center is run by a nice old guy (who is not, for some reason, called 'Pops'), and the ringleaders are Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo.
In the last movie, they formed a dance team with a rich girl , and as this movie opens she visits their center and decides to stay and pitch in, despite the opposition of her WASP parents, who want her to enroll in an Ivy League university. Then the plot thickens, when an evil real estate developer wants to tear down the center and put up a big retail development. With just a few minor modifications, this story could be about Mickey and Judy, or Frankie and Annette. But what does it matter, when the whole point of the enterprise is to provide an excuse for song and dance? Quinones, Chambers, and Dickey can indeed dance, very well, and there are a lot of other street dancers in the movie, but what's interesting is the way the traditions of street dancing are combined in this movie with the older traditions of stage dancing and chorus lines. The big extravaganza at the end (a benefit to save the center, needless to say) is a unique hybrid of old and new dance styles.
'Electric Boogaloo' is not a great movie, but it's inexhaustible, entertaining, and may turn out to be influential. It could inspire a boomlet of low-priced movie musicals - movies not saddled with multimillion dollar budgets, Broadway connections, and stars who are not necessarily able to sing and dance. And at a time when movie musicals (as opposed to movie sound tracks) are seriously out of touch with the music that is really being played and listened to by teenagers, that could be a revolutionary development.
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