A young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend... Read allA young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.A young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.
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i definitely recommend seeing this movie if you grew up in the 80's!
Kevin Peterson http://www.schoolanduniversity.com
I didn't actually laugh once at Jamie Kennedy's antics. The jokes sound clunky and are more angry than charming. Being dumb isn't a bad thing but badly written performances are. The 15 minutes prologue of the characters as kids is more compelling than the rest of the movie. The humor is so lifeless that it's more sad than anything else. Jamie Kennedy is unable to play dumb with joy. His friends are much funnier which means they're tolerable. Bobby Lee is probably the funniest of a bad lot.
They had a great premise to build on and they blew it. Could have had cameos all over the place, Turbo and Ozone from Breakin', Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash, etc etc.
Instead, they put in a bunch of Busch league dancers who were flat out annoying, and jokes written with zero creativity. It reminds me of another turd that came out recently, Drillbit Taylor.. Annoying characters, a script that wouldn't pass a 5th grade Creative Writing paper, with a few people that *could* have been funny (and are in other movies).
At minimum it should have been funny and it should have had some ridiculously good breakers and it failed miserably on both counts.
I'm being kind by giving it 4/10.
The real failure of the film, it's the lack of star power, of a very handsome lead, Jamie Kennedy is fine but not enough for people to socially accept him as a lead, it has the wit that "21 Jump Street" has, minus Channing Tatum, there are some awkwardly fun scenes that never push it far enough to become gross, the movie knows the limits of what it's funny and what is gross, which is also another amazing thing the script had.
Other than that it doesn't takes itself too seriously, it seems like a movie in which the crew and actors could have fun, I would of really though this movie was done in the 90's which is another good point for the D.O.P. and perhaps a bad point for marketing.
All in all, it is one of the few solid comedies around the last decade, unfortunately the lack of star power, the out of date visuals, and the script being too smart for it's own good, it might be a movie to watch in 10 years, it came out too soon.
Did you know
- TriviaAlan Ruck plays a character named Dr. Fry. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Alan Ruck played a character named Cameron Frye. Dr. Fry also mentions that he is still paying off the Ferrari!
- GoofsDuring the opening credits, which take place on April 20 1986, there is a shot of the legs of a Transformer toy named B'boom; however, B'boom was a part of the Beast Wars toy line and was not released until 1997.
- Quotes
Darnell Jackson: Man, I miss you dog. I miss you. You my nigga.
Justin Schumacher: [Looking horrified] Darnell, that's a bad word.
Darnell Jackson: Bitch, you been sleeping too long. After N.W.A. came out everybody's been saying it.
Justin Schumacher: What was N.W.A.?
Darnell Jackson: Niggaz with Atti...
Justin Schumacher: [Looking more horrified]
Darnell Jackson: Look, don't worry about it. It's my buddy, my friend.
Justin Schumacher: I'm sorry Darnell, I was in a coma.
Darnell Jackson: Yeah, you were.
Justin Schumacher: You're a good nigger. You're the best nigger I ever had.
- Alternate versionsThe USA DVD includes 30 minutes of deleted scenes including a scene withMichelle Trachtenberg that was cut from the final cut.
- ConnectionsEdited into Kickin' It Old Skool: Deleted Scenes (2007)
- SoundtracksBreakdance Electric Boogie
Written by Cheryl Lorraine Cook, Spoonie Gee (as Gabriel M. Jackson), Jerry Lordan (as Jeremiah Lordan) and Joey Robinson (as Joseph Roy Robinson, Jr.)
Performed by West Street Mob (as West Street MOB)
Courtesy of The Robinson Music Group
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- Also known as
- Kicking It Old School
- Filming locations
- Tsawwassen, Delta, British Columbia, Canada(mall scenes)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,502,604
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,484,624
- Apr 29, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $4,692,108
- Runtime
- 1h 47m(107 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1