Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo DVD MGM Release Break Dancing New Sealed. In that, the trio had to raise money to stop the bulldozers to not rip down the inner city rec center; in addition, the film was more on a dance/musical tone. They couldnt keep me out of there, he said. 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). Also from the original is Ice-T, whose role as a rapper is given more of a name, Radiotron Rapper. She was a mega-icon, and Im proud that he was able to go from the street and breaking to Madonna and launching a new dance style.. Okay, on the one hand, this movie is so cheesy it hurts and it does for breakdancers what "Hackers" did for club kids. He didn't like this whole levitation thing. ADOLFO QUINONES: Oh no, no, no, no, no. By using this site, you agree to our updated. 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. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. People are still break dancing! How are you? Co-founder Toni Basil posted that it is with extreme sadness The Lockers family announces the unexpected passing of our beloved Adolfo Shabba-doo Quinones. Breaker 4 Life! Yahoo Entertainment has reunited the cast of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo," the 1984 cult classic that spawned a million punchlines. The three main dancers from Breakin' Kelly "Special K" Bennett (Lucinda Dickey), Orlando "Ozone" Barco (Adolfo Quinones), and Tony "Turbo" Ainley (Michael Chambers) struggle to stop the demolition of a community recreation center by a developer who wants to build a shopping mall. Music. Released in United States Winter December 21, 1985. I like it more than Jean did. CHRIS MCDONALD: I'm growing my quarantine beard, so I've got that going for me. So I'm excited to dig into them with you guys today, with an emphasis on the "Electric Boogaloo." And there's only one way to do that: dance, dance, dance! Good to see you. Encore to the low-budget hit revolves around three break dancers trying to save a youth centre. In the early 80s though, the breakers are treated like outsiders in the dance world and that in some ways mirrored the experience Dickey, a gymnast at the time, had coming onto the first film. (I wish you could edit posts). Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo: Directed by Sam Firstenberg. Shocking Facts About Casino Real Story, Homemade Smoothie Recipes You Need to Try This Season, Lupita Nyongo is headed to A Quiet Place, Elevate Your Movie Nights with These Affordable Home Theater Upgrades. [LAUGHS] He told us! Turbo spends Breakin' thinking girls are yucky, and seeing them mainly as challenges to his dance floor supremacy. The kids can save it, but they must raise the proper amount of money. Because I had always had that in my back pocket. I remember. Do you guys remember that? And the truth is, the way I approached it, the way I was thinking it, there was not a huge difference between a dance movie and an action movie. Not because I dont respect Shmulik [a nickname for Firstenberg] and his ability, I felt like the storyline was going more toward a cartoony point of view and I think that storyline was instigated not by Shmulik but by Menahem Golan, who tried to recreate a 1940s musical in the golden age of musicals. (Quiones has gotten more diplomatic in his critiques of the film over the years.