In fact, none of the drama surrounding the two groups of foes ever feels legitimate, since it always just resolves via dance. Staged as if they are martial arts battles, they just seem ridiculous. What doesn't work is the dance "fights" between our heroes and their rival crew. There are other big dance numbers, including plenty of montages of rehearsals and performances, with some rather impressive moves that still hold up over 30 years later (even if the fashion on display is hilariously over the top. That's fine though, as you're here for the dancing, which is pretty awesome all around, including some "spectacular" background work by a young Jean Claude Van Damme (if you've been on the internet, you've probably seen the gif.) The influence of Cannon heads Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus is obvious in the homage to Fred Astaire in one of the best sequences, as Turbo dances with a broom outside of the store he works in late at night, a rather lovely blending of old-school dance and breakdancing. The story is somewhat secondary to the dancing, with little in the way of plot, outside of the culture clash between Ozone's crew and Kelly's teacher and the idea of a big audition for the three dancers, engineered by Kelly's agent James (played by Christopher McDonald of Requiem for a Dream and Happy Madison fame.)
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These are the defining films of an incredibly niche genre.įast-tracked to theaters by legendary B-movie studio Cannon Films to capitalize on breakdancing's growing popularity, Breakin' took a pair of professional breakdancers, Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, and paired them with dancer/gymnast Lucinda Dickey (star of Cannon's Ninja III: The Domination) to create a fish-out-of-water story, where jazz dancer Kelly (Dickey) finds her passion dancing with Ozone (Quinones) and Turbo (Chambers), while she brings their street dancing into her more-formal world. Though Beat Street, with Rae Dawn Chong, has its fans, the ones everyone remembers are the films first to market, Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Embracing the energy of a burgeoning hip-hop culture, a quick rush of movies featuring breakdancing flooded onto screens, before disappearing just as quickly, leaving behind a faint memory of linoleum and boomboxes.
Loves: Movie musicals, ridiculous films, the ‘80sįor a short, shining moment spanning 1984 to 1985, breakdancing was the focus of a serious film trend.
The brief, glorious heydey of breakdancing cinema
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