Monday, April 21, 2008

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Break dancers Ozone and Turbo team up with rich girl Kelly - whose dad doesn't like Kelly wasting her life dancing with the lower class - to save the neighborhood youth center, Miracles, which is about to be demolished by a corrupt business man who wants the land to build a shopping mall.

Will the break dancers save their neighborhood? Will they win the dance off against that rival dancing gang? Will they get the hell off the ceiling? And will the rich girl's father learn that just because someone has no money, dresses odd, and dances to the rhythm of the street doesn't mean he is a conman after rich people's money?

If you're looking for a cliche in action, you've got it:
  • neighborhood bands together to fight evil industrialist
  • rich girl's parents hate her urban friends but come to realize they are good kids
  • rich girl is told she doesn't belong by urban girl
  • rival dance groups put aside their differences to fight a common enemy
  • shy guy gets girl by being himself
  • shy guy asks older guy for advice about girls and is given lesson in the wrong things to do

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