Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Sam Firstenberg
Written by
  • Charles Parker
  • Allen DeBevoise
  • Jan Ventura
  • Julie Reichert
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Hanania Baer
Edited by
  • Sally Allen
  • Bert Glatstein
  • Bob Jenkis
  • Marcus Manton
  • Barry Zetlin
Music byMichael Linn
Production
company
Distributed by TriStar Pictures [1]
Release date
  • December 19, 1984 (1984-12-19)
[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million [2]
Box office$15.1 million (US/Canada) [1]

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is a 1984 American dance musical film directed by Sam Firstenberg. [3] It is a sequel to the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin' . Electric Boogaloo was released seven months after its predecessor by TriStar Pictures. In some international locations the film was released under the title Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo. Another sequel, Rappin' (also known as Breakdance 3) was made but had an unconnected plot and different lead characters – only Ice-T features in all three films.

Contents

The subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" has entered the popular culture lexicon as a snowclone nickname to denote an archetypal sequel.

Plot

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. Viktor Manoel, Ice-T, Lela Rochon and Martika also appear as dancers.

Cast

Critical reception

Like its predecessor, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo received mostly negative reviews from critics. [4] [5] New York Press film critic Armond White considered it to be "superb" [6] and Roger Ebert gave the film a three out of four star rating. [7] As of December 2017, Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 29% based on 7 reviews. [8]

Box office

The film grossed $2,921,030 in its first 5 days starting December 21, 1984, playing at 717 theaters in the United States and Canada [9] and went on to gross $15.1 million in the United States and Canada, [1] less than half that of its predecessor. Despite this, it is considered to be a success financially, due to making back over three times its budget.

Soundtrack

Like its predecessor, much of the film's soundtrack was provided by Ollie & Jerry, comprising the duo Ollie E. Brown and Jerry Knight. The title track, "Electric Boogaloo", reached number 45 on the R&B charts. [10]

  1. "Electric Boogaloo" – Ollie & Jerry
  2. "Radiotron" – Firefox
  3. "Din Daa Daa" – George Kranz
  4. "When I.C.U." – Ollie & Jerry
  5. "Gotta Have the Money" – Steve Donn
  6. "Believe in the Beat" – Carol Lynn Townes
  7. "Set it out" – Midway
  8. "I Don't Wanna Come Down" – Mark Scott
  9. "Stylin' Profilin'" – Firefox
  10. "Oye Mamacita" – Rags & Riches

Charts

Chart performance for Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chart (1985)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [11] 51
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 34
US Billboard 200 [13] 52
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [14] 25

Home video releases

On April 15, 2003, MGM Home Entertainment released Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo as a bare-bones DVD. On April 21, 2015, Shout! Factory released the film, along with Breakin', as a double feature Blu-ray.

Legacy

The subtitle "Electric Boogaloo", originally a reference to a funk-oriented dance style of the same name, has entered the popular culture lexicon as a snowclone nickname to denote an archetypal sequel. [15] The usual connotation is of either a ridiculous sequel title, or of the follow-up to an obscure or eclectic film (or other work). [16] [17] The band Five Iron Frenzy titled one of their albums Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo . [18] The band Minus the Bear features the song "Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo" on the album Highly Refined Pirates . An episode of the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was titled "Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo". [19] Other news articles and media have used the Electric Boogaloo subtitle, and it has also become an Internet meme. [18] A documentary about the Cannon Group was released in 2014 called Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films of which Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo were featured. [20] In the movie Kicking and Screaming , Grover's promiscuous partners after a breakup with a girl named Jane are collectively rereferred to as "Jane 2: Electric Boogaloo." [21] The third volume of the Pokémon graphic novel series Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu by Toshihiro Ono is known in English as Pokémon: Electric Pikachu Boogaloo. [22]

The term "boogaloo" on its own has become a slang term on the Internet beginning as early as 2012, coming to widespread attention in late 2019. [23] [24] Used by some far-right extremists to describe an uprising against the American government, the term originated from the idea that such a conflict would be, like the film, a "sequel" to the American Civil War; that is, "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo". [25] Groups subscribing to this ideology are considered to be a part of the boogaloo movement, and their members are often called "boogaloo boys". [26] [27] [28]

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