Breakin' vs. Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo

[jwgh]

Tonight I watched both of these movies (well, I missed a little of the first one). Here is a handy guide for those who wish to differentiate the two:

Breakin'
More montages.
More actual breakdancing.
Generally colder weather, if my eyes do not deceive me.
Bad guy is a dance instructor who controls the local jazz dance cabal.
The love triangle: Ozone and Kelly vie for Turbo's affections.
One scene features a paraplegic breakdancer who demonstrates what dancing is really about, apparently.

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Music with actual real instruments.
Less believable ending, which is saying something.
Bad guy is an evil developer! Woohoo!
The love triangle: Kelly and some other woman who I wasn't sure who she was vie for Turbo's affections. (Meanwhile, Ozone pursues a barely pubescent Mexican girl who doesn't speak any English.)
One scene features everyone in a hospital (doctors, nurses, patients, receptionists, and a suspiciously large number of random people in matching costumes) spontaneously going into a dance number.

Comments

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Stop it, you're frightening me.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

You omit entirely mention of the inimitable Shabba-Doo, as well as the scene in which Turbo dances around all 8 sides of an octagonal room, making a loop-de-loop.

What kind of an attempt at a scholarly treatise are you trying to sell me here?

[stumpsforhands.livejournal.com]

Shabba-Doo is Ozone.

[jwgh]

Dude, I didn't want to give the entire plot away.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

oops! Spoiler alert!

I haven't seen these movies since the mid-80's. How did they stand the test of time? Do the hairstyles look really weird?

[jwgh]

According to IMDB, the set where Turbo danced on the ceiling was borrowed from 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'.

[kattullus.livejournal.com]

I think you're mixing up Turbo and Ozone, unless my reading of the movie was way off

also, one major difference, lot less crotchshots in Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

I'm glad you confirm that this actually happen, and that it wasn't all just a very strange dream

[stumpsforhands.livejournal.com]

Kári is right; you've got Ozone and Turbo mixed up.

[jwgh]

Oh, well.

[jwgh]

No, it ends with a big dance party fundraiser to save the community center and Kelly's parents see it on teevee and realize that they intended to raise their daughter to question authority so they show up and donate $50,000 (which is of course $7 trillion in real money) which puts the fundraiser over the top so they have the money to renovate it and keep it from being condemned. Oh ***SPOILER ALERT*** I guess.

I don't know what movie ends with a rollerblade race. Wouldn't '84 have been a little early for that?

[satedkate.livejournal.com]

on that rollerblading movie, that's Airborne from 1993. most excellent.

perhaps that and SideKicks for the next random movie night.

[satedkate.livejournal.com]

sorry i was so diffinitive on the Airborne comment, i meant to say maybe it was Airborne.
eek. oop.

see it anyway. it's crap.