BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Monday, August 4th at 8:00 p.m.
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"Mere words cannot do justice to the experience of watching Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ... completely out of control, and almost surreal in its approach to music and breakdancing. Guilty pleasure favorite, anyone?" - QWIPSTER'S MOVIE REVIEWS
If you really believe in the beat, you’d better (break) dance on down to catch BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, the freshest, most totally dope hip hop musical of the 80s. This sometimes unbelievable, often surreal, and always entertaining late-1984 sequel to the early-1984 hit BREAKIN' (a sequel released the same year as the original? You bet, and why not? Break dancing wasn't going to last forever, so why wait?) topped the original in every way, and forever set the standard for over-the-top musical sequels with "Boogaloo" in the title!
Urban break dancers Turbo and Ozone (played by Boogaloo Shrimp and Shabba-Doo, respectively) return to their old stomping grounds of downtown LA (after going after their dreams to become professional dancers in BREAKIN'), to start an inner city community center for under-privileged kids who just wanna dance. But when the cash-poor center is threatened by a greedy land developer who wants to tear down the dance hall and build a strip mall, enter luscious lady breaker Kelly (played by 80s cheese movie queen Lucinda Dickey), who decides to turn her back on her rich uptight family, as well as her budding career as a chorus line hoofer, to help her old pals from BREAKIN' save the community center, and make the world safe for poppin' and lockin'! Do these gutsy dancers have what it takes to make it happen? Will Kelly and Ozone end up falling in love? Will Turbo learn to master The Helicopter? What do you think?
Filled with wall-to-wall break dancing (including a must-see-it-to-believe-it break dancing free-for-all in a hospital intensive care unit, complete with pregnant women pop-rocking in the maternity ward), eye-searing neon spandex aerobic wear, a hip hop gang rumble fought with fresh dance moves instead of guns, a guy break dancing in a chicken costume, a whole lot of 80s goofiness (including an early, and ridiculous, appearance by rapper Ice-T), and such timeless battle cries as ''Electros rule the dance floor now, sucka!''
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