Breakin’ (1984)
Award winners don't push brooms.
Tagline:
For the break of your life! Push it to Pop it! Rock it to Lock it! Break it to Make it!
Nominated By:
Dawn
CMS Synopsis:
A professional dancer meets two streetwise performers and with some poppin’ and lockin’, the Legend of the TKO Crew is born!
The Breakdown:
Mike: So, I’m pretty sure the TKO Krew (Turbo, Special K and Ozone) popped and locked it’s way into everyone’s hearts. Agreed? Huh?
George: Turbo did, for sure. But Ozone.. come on. That guy was only as good as his most recent advantage.
Trish: As usual, the costumes were amazing in a horrible trainwreck kind of way. I mean, breakaway tuxedos?? GENIUS.
Mike: Watching this now made me realize 2 things – I still love breakdancing, and I looked RIDICULOUS when I tried to do the worm when I was a kid.
Clovis: I don’t know what this says about my love for the hip-hop culture, but I can’t think of anything good or bad to say about this movie. It’s like cotton candy. I love it while watching it, but as soon as its over I’ve completely forgotten about it. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Pop and Lock, but I couldn’t help but to continually flash back to “What’s Happening” and pour a little liquor out for Rerun. Plus, Ozone needed to stop walking away from every battle and just man up!
Trish: It is like cotton candy, only somehow sweeter. Mike, I think I need to see you try to do the worm now.
Dawn: I think part of Breakin’s utter forgetability (is that word? it is now), at least for me, can be blamed on the Lost finale that exploded my brain immediately after this viewing. Because I’d like to think that a movie with male camel toe, Shooter McGavin as a good guy, bumpers as wall art, and cameos by Jean-Claude Van Damme AND Ice-T would be pretty frickin’ memorable. On one sad note, that clear DVD picture and big screen TV didn’t do us any favors by revealing the strings in the Turbo’s broom dance. A little part of my six year old self died on Sunday.
Trish: Dude, those weren’t strings. They were magical fibers.
Steve: Was I the only one who picked up the veiled drug reference with the name Special K? I thought Shooter McGavin gave a powerhouse performance and can’t understand why he left acting for professional golf. I also wonder why the characters were named Ozone and Turbo when their real nick names are Shabba Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp. They could have made it easy for them like they do for Tony Danza. They did dance their way into my heart, though, and this was my favorite Crappy Movie so far. Probably because it had multiple montages. Take note, The Last Dragon.
The Courtesy Flush:
This week, Dawn is our defender of all things Breakin’:
I have lot of memories tied up in Breakin’. It came out right around the time my family got HBO and I watched the hell out of it, which led to me (a) asking for a jambox for Christmas that was so big I literally could not carry it, and (b) nearly breaking my arm during various demonstrations of my sweet coffee grinder move. I don’t know why I though Ozone was so dreamy, or why it never occurred to me that the rival breakdance crew could just one-up our heroes by adding a fourth dancer. What I *do* know is I’ll be pushing hard for some Electric Boogaloo action in the coming months. After all, somebody’s gotta save Miracles. TKO!
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