If she gets it, though, it will prohibit her from participating in the rescuing of the center. Meanwhile, Kelly is being offered the opportunity to audition for a show that's going to Paris. So Kelly's dad isn't really up for giving Ozone and Turbo $200,000 that they can use for Whatever You People Do With Money (that's basically what he says).Īs you can imagine, this leaves only one plausible solution: Let's Put On A Show! Or more specifically, Let's Put On A Street Fair That Maybe Would Also Include A Show! Now, nothing against community events, but I'm not sure it's completely plausible that a street festival is going to raise $200,000. But maybe going totally bare-chested except for your mostly-open leather vest isn't exactly the most parent-friendly look, you know? At any rate, Kelly's father turns out to be.well, he's stuck-up, and he lacks imagination, and he doesn't support her dancing - oh, and he's a total, unrepentant racist. You don't have to wear an Izod shirt or anything. But if you're going to go meet the parents of a girl you seem to be sort-of dating, and you're nervous about how it's going to go, here's a hint, from me to you. Now, I'm not here to tell you Ozone's not a good guy. When a car wash fails to raise $200,000, they even visit Kelly's rich, snooty parents. Apparently, the developers will be foiled if the building is renovated, which doesn't sound like any evil developers I ever heard of, but: okay. Of course, the cruel hand of commerce, in the form of evil developers, threatens to crush the center unless Ozone, Turbo and Kelly are able to raise $200,000 in one month to renovate it. Kelly is auditioning but getting nowhere, while Ozone and Turbo are apparently urchins once again, though they are teaching at the center, which is called Miracles. See, Ozone (Shabba-Doo) and Turbo (Boogaloo Shrimp) and Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) have apparently fallen on hard times, er, months after the debut of their wildly successful Broadway show Street Jazz (tee hee).
BREAKING ELECTRIC BOOGALOO MOVIE MOVIE
The basic "plot" of this movie has a lot in common with the Jessica Alba "classic" Honey and countless others: it's all about saving the community center. Now I ask you: what is the point of a dance-off when nobody is watching? How do you know who won?Īnd yes, there is a lot more silliness where large groups dance down the street and are incongruously joined by onlookers, cops, construction workers, football players, Eskimos, and the like. In Boogaloo, there is a large dance-off that takes place under a highway, between two gangs, witnessed by no one. The dance-off, the draw of Paris, girlfights, and saving the community, after the jump.Īnyway, in the original, the "dance-off," logically enough, took place in front of a large crowd of easily impressed onlookers in a dance club, where - were you inclined to have a major brawl in the form of dancing - you might logically conduct such an event. This shall be my contribution to the culture. What I'm saying is that Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is kind of like Oklahoma!. But in Oklahoma!, people will just start randomly warbling and leaping about right in the middle of, say, a serious discussion about fidelity. Oklahoma! often gets (only moderately accurately) described as one of the early musicals that became really successful in spite of totally defying reality - in other words, in many prior musicals, people danced and sang in dancing-and-singing situations, which is why you had so many musicals about stage performers and so forth. Overall, the production numbers have gone over the Oklahoma! barrier, if that makes any sense to you. You know how "Dancing Queen" was performed in the movie of Mamma Mia!, where all the townspeople gathered and gradually migrated to the docks in order to celebrate togetherness through the dance? This is more like that.
The dancing, on the other hand, was Shabba-Doo-lightful.īut for some reason, instead of seeing intense, quasi-realistic break-dancing smackdowns in clubs, as in Breakin' Classic, there are a lot of large-scale production numbers. In theory, this is a good idea, because the acting in the original was of a caliber usually reserved for seventh-grade plays. The first is that somebody decided it would be better to have less acting and more dancing. Several things happened between the original and the Boogaloo. This is, I am telling you sincerely, the thought I had during Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, the latest entry in our Summer Of '80s Movies series: "Boy, the quality really slipped from the original Breakin'." Now with more Boogaloo: We've reached one of the most notorious sequels of the '80s: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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