Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) User Reviews (51)

The birth of a meme.

[Java_Joe · 3/10 · 10 March 2019]

When the movie "Breakin'" came out the whole trend of breakdancing was everywhere. It was absolutely huge. So obviously they needed to make a sequel but this time to focus on breakdancing's little brother, Electric Boogaloo. And a meme was born. And I mean that literally. Electric Boogaloo became the standard response to whenever a movie was coming out with a sequel for decades to come.

Batman Returns? No, people called it "Batman 2: Electric Boogaloo". Terminator 2? Of course not. It was "Terminator 2: Electric Boogaloo". It's so popular a saying that even 35 years later people are still making this comment whenever a new sequel is coming out. Usually it is reserved for movies that are less popular or people wonder why they're making a sequel but occasionally you get a wag that didn't get the memo.

The story itself is pretty standard fare. The main characters are back. Kelly is now dancing in some chorus line somewhere and wanting to go to France. While Ozone and Turbo are heading up a youth center called "Miracles". But along comes an evil developer that wants to put up a shopping mall where Miracles is. So the only way to save it is to put on a show, raise a lot of money and make sure that the mortgage on it is paid and that Miracles stays where it is. This is a plot device that I seem to recall being used by the Lil Rascals back in the day. And I mean the actual B&W series from the 30's.

This is cut with scenes of what Shabba-Doo a.k.a Ozone and Boogaloo Shrimp a.k.a Turbo do best which is dance. And let me tell you, this is something they are able to do. When it comes to their acting? Not so much.

To call the plot contrived and the actors not being able to act is like calling a duck a duck. They're not actors, they're dancers and that's what you came to see.

The movie itself is pretty bad but as I said, if you're seeing this for any other reason than either you love bad movies or want to see them dance then you're here for all the wrong reasons.

More cheesy fun

[utgard14 · 5/10 · 15 February 2014]

Sequel to the '80s "classic" Breakin' with an old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland plot about putting on a show to save a community center. The same main characters are back and haven't changed any. Turbo (Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers) is still the fun and likable one with the best dance moves. Ozone (Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quinones) is still kind of a downer with a huge chip on his shoulder. He's also the weakest dancer in the movie. Kelly aka Special K (Lucinda Dickey) is still the rich girl who has big decisions to make about her career and her love life. Her dancing has significantly improved from the first movie. Lucinda is as pretty as ever but she has competition now from Turbo's girlfriend, played by the lovely Sabrina Garcia (whose Spanish-speaking voice sounds like it was dubbed by a child). The epic rivalry with Electro Rock continues and we get a fun dance-off out of it. There's more dancing this time around with Turbo's gravity-defying dance scene a highlight. As with the first movie, it's pretty cheesy but amusing in its way. It certainly has nostalgic value for people of my generation. If you don't take it seriously you'll probably enjoy it more.

Unbelievably Ridiculous

[Mr. Pulse · 4/10 · 22 February 2002]

Nothing in the world can prepare you for Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo. No description does it justice, no warning truly gives you an idea of what you are in store for. Few movies are as bizarre, yet oddly compelling at the same time.

Because one movie wasn't enough to contain these people; Breakin 2 picks up where the first movie picks off. Or so I assume, I haven't seen Breakin, but the three main characters Kelly (Lucinda Dickey), Ozone (Adolfo Quinones) and Turbo (Michael Chambers) are the same. In this installment the trio try to save a youth center named Miracles from the clutches of evil (read: white and unhip) government bigwigs who want to bulldoze the unsafe building and make way for a new shopping center.

It's fortunate that the trio live in an alternate universe in which breakdancing can solve all of society's ills. No exaggeration here; over the course of ninety-four boogie filled minutes, dancing stops bulldozers, pays bills, ends gang wars, and even cures the ill and the infirm (One person bounds out of the wheelchair in jubilation; apparently they simply forgot they could walk). There is so much dancing in this movie that it frequently appears that the plot is intruding on it, and not the other way around. These are people who work a hard day's living dancing then go home and blow off some steam by, what else, dancing.

This isn't a poorly made movie in the traditional sense; it isn't full of continuity holes or bad special effects. For all its silliness, it probably succeeds in exactly the way it wanted to; as a movie about people who love breakdancing so much they'd rather do that than say, eat, sleep, converse, or share meaningful human contact. More than fifteen years later, it's terribly quaint, and hilariously dated. But it has a city-wide dance party, a hospital-wide dance party, a dance-filled climax (a shock, I know) and two performances by Ice-T. What more do you want? Do yourself a favor and rent this movie. By the end, you'll be dancing too.

Breakin 2

[Coxer99 · 12 May 1999]

Nothing changed here. Story's still the same. People are still break dancing! This sequel was made within not even a full year after the original. Gotta love the 80's.

Off The Heazy!!

[LARRYLOVE711 · 9 September 2002]

Let's get one thing straight......If you haven't lived the Hip-Hop lifestyle, you cannot properly judge this movie in ANY negative manner. I was a teenager in the mid 80's and danced (electric boogie) in the streets and roller rinks of NY for 4+ years. I went to LA when I was 16 and battled other dancers on Venice Beach, which was the MECCA of electric boogie street dancers.

This movie was the best of it's kind!! Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers was arguably the best in the craft and shined in both this movie and it's predecessor. Don't view this movie looking for a wealth of incredible acting, but do watch it for some amazing street dancing and a very likeable cast with a good storyline. I LOVED this movie and still do. Every time I see it, I'm transported from my office back to my carefree teenage years, where my biggest problems were what to wear when dancing and what music I was going to boogie to!

I'm popping and throwing waves as I write............

This film is what the 80's was all about!

[alirock76 · 4 September 2004]

Yeah the film is predictable, poorly acted, & the clothes.... well! yet this is exactly was the 80's was all about & why it was the best decade ever. I mean tell me, who didn't enjoy police academy, porkies, those silly troma films & all those ridiculous teenage slasher movies. & then we have the transformers, he-man, visionaries & the best cartoon ever made the THUNDERCATS.... HO! My point is basically the 80's was about having fun & was represented by film, TV & especially music... gap band, shalamar, earth, wind & fire... kool & the gang, & of course the greatest of them all MICHAEL JACKSON (yo' all know!) So in essence remember this film, & it should make you smile & remember just how great life is & how great it was growing up & living through all those silly movies & knight rider, street hawk, tj hooker, automan, airwolf etc & you all remember leg warmers & fluorescent socks & especially wearing shorts on top of your trousers (pants lol) & Mr T long live the A-Team & viva the 80's

There's not stoppin' them

[H_F_Jones · 10/10 · 25 August 2006]

You have just finished watching Breakin' - and feel like you want to go out onto the streets and find a group of people to dance with, then you realise that your about 20 years too late and the only gangs hanging around your neighbourhood are not interested in dancing.

Your spirits drop, realising that you can never get back your youth...

But then you remember, you also own Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and you get back on your sofa and spend another couple of hours with a friendly group of Break Dancers who only want to support their local amenities... They don't use violence (apart from perhaps some suggestive popping' and lockin' moves), they don't use guns or drugs and they even get their rival street gang to kiss and make up with them in order to protect their hood from the City Suits.

Where else could you get a story line like that? Take it for what it is - great music, great dancing, great fun!

It's whacked

[SnoopyStyle · 6/10 · 17 September 2018]

Rich girl Kelly Bennett is now a chorus dancer after the close of Street Jazz. She and Ozone are together and his ex Rhonda is jealous. Turbo falls for Latina dancer Lucia. Ozone and Turbo are teaching street dancing to the kids. Byron runs local community center Miracles where they hang out. Developer Douglas is trying to tear it down and build a shopping center. Sleazy minion Randall pushes the local government to tear it down. The dance trio defeats the Electros in a dance off. The community has to battle the developer to save their Miracles.

I don't remember Kelly having a rich family in the first movie. I guess it's possible that she was being independent working in that diner. It looks more like a manufactured class conflict between Kelly and her street life. This time around, the movie is asking more acting from the group and it's met with varying results. Kelly and Ozone have no real romantic chemistry. It double-downs on the first movie's little crush and the actors struggle to have any heat. It's cute to have love sick Turbo and he has one of the best upside down dance sequences ever. They recreate that shack so well that it's almost a perfect transition between the real world shack and the rotating one. The only truly awkward transition happens when Lucia walks into the room. She's stuck to the wall when Turbo is dancing upside down. This sequel is a cheesier effort highlighted by that one awesome dance sequence and a sequel title for the history books. Ice-T does return to do more rapping.

It's the cheeziest!!!

[constructionbob · 2/10 · 15 May 2000]

No, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo will never win any awards. It'll never even come close, but for some strange reason I still enjoy it. I'd much rather spend a night watching it than some pretentious Hollywood garbage like Armegeddon. Let's see if I can find a few reasons why.

This movie is sort of like a Scooby Doo episode-you know the plot already, and can predict it easily. Oh no! The youth center's in trouble! How much you wanna bet that the Breakin' kids will come through with the money just in time to save it? How much you wanna bet that'll involve an inordinate number of spontaneous dance scenes, and supa-dope fly moves? Yep, you might be able to guess the answers.

It's just fun to see these people play it out, because they're obviously having fun. Yeah, even the straights like Kelly's parents finally get on the train. And watch for the scene in the hospital. Yes, the miraculous power of break dancing can bring your loved ones back from the dead!

Oh well, maybe I can't defend this intellectually, but this movie's still great. Watch it, and just try to do the robot as well as Turbo or Ozone...just be careful, or you might actually have fun too...

It Ain't Brain Surgery It's Just Entertainment!

[DarylKMiddlebrook · 25 April 2004]

Let me start by acknowledging that Breakin 2 (the sequel to 1984's Breakin, which was a box office hit) IS NOT a great movie. The acting is weak, the plot very "Andy Hardy," and the dialog, well let just say, it wouldn't have been any better if Golan/Globus would have gotten Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep to star in this film. That being said, let me now state that Breakin 2 IS NOT a "bad movie" either. It is what it is, mindless entertainment. The dancing, while not as riveting as it's predecessor, is enjoyable. The clothes (remember this is the 80's), well they're a laugh in themselves. The cast are all attractive (Lucinda Dickey looks hot as hell in this one, and check out Sonny Bono's sexy ex-wife Susie Coelho playing Kelly's rival).

The thinly written plot of Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo takes up where Breakin left off. Kelly (Dickey), Ozone (Aldolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones) and Turbo (the phenomenal Michael "Boogalo Shrimp" Chambers have finished up what appears to have been a short run of their musical "Street People." Having gone their separate ways, Kelly is finding life in the chorus line a dead end. Unlike Ozone and Turbo, Kelly is not a product of the streets, and must also deal with her stereotypically written "rich parents," who want her to stop wasting her life dancing and go to Princeton. Needing a break from the lifestyle of the rich and famous, she goes to visit her "boyz in the hood" buds Ozone and Turbo, who seem to have found a better niche in life, teaching kids at a community center in East Los Angeles.

Enter bad guy real estate developer Mr. Douglas (character actor Peter MacLean), who wants to buy the land where the rec center sits and build a shopping mall. Kelly rejoins her ghetto comrades to stand against Douglas, and the city, who holds the lease on the building. The city does gives the trio one month to raise $150,000 to get the old center up to building standards or lose it to Douglas. How will they do it? How else, by putting on a street carnival (I told you this wasn't Pulp Fiction). Sub-plots include Kelly's racist parent attempting to bribe her by offering to bail out the center(only if she denounces her street friends and goes to college), and Kelly and Ozone's phantom romance (they never seriously kiss or get romantic in either film, which was the norm for interracial affairs in the 80's).

As stated earlier, where this movie shines is in the dancing. Ozone's rooftop number and Turbo's dancing on the ceiling are very enjoyable. The soundtrack wasn't as ripping as the original, but it's listenable without being annoying. The one other redeemable trait of Breakin 2, is it's attempt (no matter how lame an attempt) to portray a part of American culture that few people outside of major cities such as Los Angeles and New York knew anything about. In the eighties, you could count the number of minority themed films on one hand, so given it's very low budget, Breakin 2 at least served up a decent laugh and some head bobbin "make you smile" hoofin'.

Bottom line, if you're looking for Academy Award performances, solid acting, excellent writing and a thought provoking storyline, AVOID THIS FILM. However, if you want a look (albeit a somewhat watered down, white bread look) at a phenomenal eighties American fad called Break Dancing, check it out and enjoy the music and the dancing. That's all Golan/Globus was trying to make, and that's all this movie has to offer.

For fans of musicals and 80's nostalgia alike!

[tarbosh22000 · 20 July 2011]

Kelly, Turbo and Ozone are back in Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, the only break dancing-based sequel in movie history. This time around, a community center named Miracles is at stake. A nefarious land developer, Douglas (MacLean), wants to bulldoze the beloved property to make room for a shopping center. The kids can save it, but they must raise the proper amount of money. And there's only one way to do that: dance, dance, dance! Do you know of another way? All the same colorful costumes and funky tunes return this time around as well, as does Ice-T, wearing one of the best outfits of his career in the first scene he appears in. We also find out that Kelly comes from a wealthy family, and, when she gets the opportunity to star on the stage in Paris, or help out Miracles, what will she decide? For this Breakin' film, the directorial reins were handed over to Sam Firstenberg, the Cannon mainstay and director of many action films, including Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and American Ninja (1985). Under his watch, this film becomes more of a traditional musical, with clearly-defined "numbers" wherein setpieces are set aside for that purpose, then the action of the film goes back to normal. Luckily, this leads to insane and very funny scenarios, not the least of which are the killer opening scene and the hospital scene. Coming off Turbo's "broom dance" in the first film, we here have him doing a very impressive, pre-Lionel Richie dance on the ceiling. Is it now to be inferred by the viewer that Turbo has magic powers? He's certainly more of a human cartoon than ever before, enhanced by his Woody Woodpecker-like mischief, which he is definitely aware of, and it even gets him into trouble during the infamous "I stole your lunch" sequence.

Ozone is still dealing with his anger issues, although the viewers' hearts will be warmed with the increased screen time of cute little kid Hot Dog. This movie is more fantastical than the first Breakin' (1984) film, and the decision to step away from realism shows that the filmmakers wanted to change things up and not do the same thing twice. It has a more clearly defined plot than the original installment, and any fan of upbeat, fun, silly entertainment should love it.

For fans of musicals and 80's nostalgia alike, this is a sequel that is definitely worthy and makes a great back-to-back double feature with the original Breakin'.

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The Best Back Then

[Mama Mia · 10/10 · 5 May 2001]

Somehow I never managed to see the original Breakin but from what I've read it's not necessary. I saw this movie as a child in the 80's and I was enthralled. I guess it's my dancer nature that drew me in. I watched this movie for years seriously. Today, however, it's extremely funny. It's so cheesy that I question how I sat thru it once. Then the breakdancing resumes and I remember why. Even though the film is a comedy to me now, I recommend it to anyone who can still relate to the eighties objectively.

I am NEVER mentioning this film to my kids! But it is kind of fun...in a totally mindless way!

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 27 November 2012]

A while back, my youngest daughter was telling me how awful she thought fashions were back in the 1980s. Well, I am certainly NOT going to tell her about this film--otherwise she'll never let me forget about this! It features the worst clothing, highly infectious and repetitive music (while not bad at first, it makes your brain melt a bit after a while) and the most inane qualities in a film of the era. It's bad...really, really bad. See the hospital dance scene and the Combat Dance portions and you'll understand.

"Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" is a film with very, very little plot. Mostly, it's one dance number after another after another. Sometimes the dances are incredible (such as the athleticism of the break dancing)--but much of it is just stupid. To make it worse, their clothing consists of one fashion travesty after another. And, they repeatedly use the word 'whack'---need I say more?! Because the film is essentially just dancing, little was left for decent dialog (it often is VERY bad and the characters are mere caricatures). As for the plot, believe it or not, is a re-tread of an old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland film. I am not kidding. The 'kids' are about to lose their clubhouse, so they decide to put on a show to raise the funds to fix it up and keep the city from giving it to evil developers. There also is the brilliant rich girl who chooses to hang out on the street and dance instead of heading to Princeton (now THAT'S a good idea). To some, this movie is definitely a bit of nostalgia but for most, it is a chance to laugh hysterically at the silliness of 1984. See it and you'll understand what I am talking about...for sure.

By the way, while impressive to see, the dancing up the walls and ceiling bit was actually taken from a Fred Astaire film. In both cases, the room could be rotated to make it appear as if the dancer is defying gravity. Also, look for a very young and skinny Ice-T as the rapper with the big shades at about halfway through the film. He's the guy breaking the record. He also sings a rap late in the film. And, listen to the 'Mexican' girl--with a horribly dubbed voice that sounds like a 6 year-old!

Second half of the 80's break-dancing "classic".

[Captain_Couth · 1/10 · 29 October 2003]

The Electric Boogaloo is basically the second half of a three hour film. I guess the producers decided that the audience wasn't going to sit through a three hour musical about break dancing. So they did the next best thing. Made it into two movies. Two movies equals twice the money (Man, those Cannon boys wanted to squeeze every last dollar and cent from the quickly fading break dancing craze). Well, the movie is even cornier and cheesier than the first and just as bad. Look on the bright side, you get Lucinda Dickey!! I guess that's a plus for this other wise monotonous cheese fest.

Recommended for 80's nostalgia fans.

C+

So much giddy and goofy 80's fun

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 2 February 2022]

A group of determined and resourceful break dancers band together to stop an evil greedy developer (an admirably sincere performance by Peter MacLean) from demolishing a local community center in East Los Angeles.

Director Sam Firstenberg brings an infectiously cheerful vitality to the silly shopworn premise: The abundance of tremendous joy and vibrancy evident from start to finish is impossible to either resist or dislike, plus it's an absolute hoot to see cops, nurses, doctors, little kids, and even construction workers poppin' and lockin' for all it's worth. Delightfully inane highlights include a frantic dance off between rival break dancing gangs, a hysterical dance sequence set in a hospital, and one guy dancing all over the walls and the ceiling.

Moreover, Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers make for very likeable and appealing leads. In addition, rapper Ice-T growls out a couple of songs. The outrageous 80's clothes and hairstyles give this film a certain gnarly period charm. Super funky pulsating soundtrack, too. A total blast.

This movie may cause physical pain....

[curtis-branker · 1/10 · 6 July 2021]

...not from trying to mimic the dance moves, but from being so mind-numbingly bad. I have read some of the positive reviews with fascination. Did they watch the same movie? I was also a teenager in the breakdancing era, and I did enjoy the first one. I chased every movie of its type. I even watched Body Rock with Lorenzo Lamas!

This movie had everything wrong. The music was, by far, the absolute worst! No real baseline or beat, and definitely not music anyone would break, pop or lock to! The only redemption is Din Daa Daa by George Kranz. Everything else sounded like it was thrown together at the last minute by musicians who had anything better to do. The story plays like an ABC after-school special, only 100x cornier. Ozone's clothes were ridiculous. No one dressed like that. At least not that I ever saw, and I grew up with Beat Street.

Acting, music, story, wardrobe...all EPIC fails. I actually paid to see this in the theater, hoping, waiting for some real breaking and good music. Neither were forthcoming. Watch this movie if you want to have a laugh at the trainwreck, but don't think for a second it is representative of the breaking scene.

Doom DaDa!!!

[stinkyjune · 14 July 2003]

For all the B-Boy and all the B-Girls.... This movie represents! I wouldn't expect anyone who didn't live the breaker life to appreciate it. I get just as excited watching this film as I did when I was little. It's a classic!

Breakin 2: breakin thru!

[tbyrne4 · 10/10 · 11 March 2006]

First off, I am a huge fan of booga-loo shrimp and also of adolfo shabba-do. I especially loved the first one when he danced with that rag on a string. I saw the first breakin in the theatre when it first came out and I almost had a hernia it was so good.

By the way, I have top secret, hush-hush, information that a certain movie company WAS planning on a big sequel to Breakin 2 to celebrate the millenia. It was going to be called "Breakin 3: Breakin Free!" In pt. 3, Shrimp and Adolfo would be sent to prison for crimes they DID NOT COMMIT. They gather a posse, bust outta prison, and clear their names with nothing more than their street smarts and breakin moves to aid them. Meanwhile, outside, their white gal-pal rallies all the poppers and lockers in their "hood" and they have a big block party with fireworks and barbecue and parachute pants and enough funky fresh moves to make you wanna start dancin on the ceilin.

I think it would have been great and I would have even gone to the theatre to see it.,

Another great sequel

[DunnDeeDaGreat · 10/10 · 13 October 2001]

I remember being three years old the first time I saw this movie. Yeah the plot just like the furst one is a bit corny. But the soundtrack and chorgraphy are very top notch. All the actors play their roles good, but the high is when Shrimp dances on the celling to Mark Scott's I Don't Wanna Come Down. Check it out for Notsgala.

So bad, it's good.

[pianoboy-3 · 3 February 2001]

If for no other reason, watch the film to see poor Ice-T delivering what may be the most badly written rap lyrics of all time! This is an unintentionally very funny film. Funnier if you were a teenager in the 80's, because you remember it all. The kids do dance well. The 'gang members' are so un-menacing, it's just precious. The dance number in the hospital is breathtakingly ridiculous. Have Fun!

Painful with a capital "P"

[mackdaddyspliffs · 1/10 · 14 October 2003]

I have actually blocked most of this movie from my mind much as a person would block any traumatic incident in their life that left them scarred, the only slightly redeeming factor i can remember is that ice t was in the cast... but for even agreeing to be in this film he should have been put in a whole BODY CAST.. i was only around 11 or 12 when i watched this, but i remember even then being a pre teen and Loving hip hop and the style Suffering through this movie. I havent seen it ever played on cable or even in the discount dvd rack, thank god, in fact if i did see it on a rack, i would pick it up...put it in my cart, sneak it into the public restroom and spare the public by flushing it...

Why oh why did I listen to Roger Ebert?

[outlawyr · 2/10 · 22 October 2017]

Let's start with the obvious. This is a sequel, so already you go into it with diminished expectations. But I read Ebert's review and thought it was actually going to be good. Nope. Here are a few of the most annoying things about this movie.

1) Break dancing gets very tiresome after a while. It's really not that many different moves. Yes, it looks hard to do, but it also can be hard to watch after so many similar routines.

2) Kelly is not very likable. Given that she's the main character, that's a problem.

3) Why is there a secret Fight Club hidden inside the break dancing Miracles palace?

4) Why was Turbo on the ceiling redoing a routine from a Fred Astaire movie?

5) If they had just taken the father's deal Kelly could have gone to Paris and had a successful career, and they would have gotten the money they needed to save "Miracles".

6) Why are they spending $200,000 to fix a building owned by the City? Why don't they buy their own building? Then the rich dude can open his mall and there will be jobs for these broken break dancers to take when they decide they want to eat some day.

7) Why have they kidnapped Cindy Brady and forced her to join their break dancing cult?

8) In the credits they mention a Michael Jackson impersonator, who apparently was so bad I didn't even notice that there was one. Well played.

9) The rival gang is actually much cooler than the break dancing gang. They have a car. They have a cool underpass that no one is going to steal by building a mall. When asked to help with the fundraiser they defy all expectation and say no. They remain true rivals.

10) The mime.

Looks like a self-parody!

[vocklabruck · 1/10 · 16 December 2019]

This movie was a torture, really. I watched it only because I liked the first installment and wanted to follow-up the guys' careers. The first movie was cheesy, yeah, but at least it had some heart and a storyline, it was enjoyable and you eventually started to like the characters, it made you feel good at the end. This one... well... it has no plot at all, it has a thousand of characters who don't really add anything and the worst fact is that it's actually a bunch of choreographies one after the other without any cohesive story. It's so obvious it can't be explained. At least in the first movie the dances were somehow part of the story, here they are not. The scenes where the 'Electro Rock' gang appeared made me laugh, because right at the end of the first movie those guys actually befriended the main characters. So what the heck were they doing now? 'the villains' were totally meaningless and forced. EVERYTHING was forced, even the use of little children. As if nonsense wasn't enough you get to know Kelly's parents who are VERY wealthy people! What's up with that? Overall it looks like there was no writer for this movie.

Now I understand why they made such a joke of the 'Electric Boogaloo' line. This movie is a joke in itself.

Ludicrously Catchy.

[GuyCC · 8/10 · 23 April 2006]

I've never seen Breakin' 2 until last night.

Sure, I've been one of the masses that adds the sub-title to every potential sequel in the making, but I never actually sat down and watched it until they had a midnight screening of it last night.

I'm now one of the converted.

Before I go into this, I've never seen Breakin' 1, but I don't think this really matters, nor did I get lost in a plot of complex twists and turns. When a movie starts in a city-wide dance party that even city officials get into, you know this is going to be no ordinary movie.

The plot's non-important. After leaving the theater, I realized there are easily a dozen clichéd plot lines, from saving a community center, upper-class girl hanging out with street kids, the disapproving father, the evil land developer, the endearing precocious children, the dramatic plot turn that requires the gang to visit the hospital, rival gangs.... it's all here. The Book of Clichés is referenced to the fullest.

But I really don't care.

The dancing 20+ years later is still incredibly impressive, the music is catchy, and the attitude of the film is so optimistically cheery, that it makes it all somehow work. People in the theater were clapping, laughing, cheering, moving to the music, and the audience enthusiasm made it that much more fun. Throw an Ice-T cameo into the mix, and it's the finest grade retro-cheese you can get. I don't think it's possible to watch this movie, and not be in a good mood by the time it's over.

And without a doubt, Turbo's "rotating room" dance scene is as good and as memorable as it gets.

Not everyone's going to get the chance to see it on the big-screen like I had the chance to last night. But it's worth a watch with a group of friends. It's not going to change the face of American cinema, it's always going to be rooted within '80's pop-culture, and it's deliriously campy.

But there's that little part of me that was just endeared by the silliness. And I watch it again for precisely that reason.

Recommended for any fan of the '80's or for those who appreciate old-school dance moves.

For those of us who enjoyed THE REAL 80's!

[midcat2001 · 7/10 · 30 October 2014]

If you were a teenager or on your early 20's back in 1984, this was probably an epic movie. It had all the elements that at that time were HIP and HOT.

What is not to love about that? The fashion of those days was amazing!, If it wasn't so, then WHY are we seeing the resurgence of so many 80's fashion staples as Skinny Jeans, NEON colors (Oh yeah!, this is my favorite!), and the all famous tank tops in bright colors with words and fancy designs in the front? I am not going to lie, for today's standards this is not a movie that you would rave about unless you want to make fun of it.

Graphics, music, and styles change, but for those of us who used to break dance, trade mix tapes, and carry our own boom box, this was an awesome movie! Even now a days I still feel that the only thing I will regret at the end of my life is that I never got to pursue dancing an become a "SOLID GOLD" professional dancing girl! :(

Watching it today, after so many years brought back some amazing memories and I can't deny that I was smiling the whole time! Not only that, but seeing Neon all over the screen made me feel so nostalgic! After all this years, I still wish I could rock some of those fashions I saw in the movie! Whenever I go to the mall and see some neon fashions, I know that back then, I would have killed to own some of the stuff that is around today! I no longer have the energy, body, and stamina to dance like in those days, and I cannot wear the same clothes, but how I loved seeing it the way it really was back then!!

Dancing numbers are still cool, Fashion was off the charts, acting was not the best, but WHO CARES? this was not an Oscar contender, this was a movie made for those of us who were kids at that time who enjoyed the same things that made it the great movie that it is.

So no, it is not for everyone, but for those of us who lived, danced, and enjoyed the early 80's this still is a favorite, and a great movie!! Dancing is universal, and even if the music styles are different, you have to appreciate the moves!!