Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
| Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo movie poster
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| Directed by | Sam Firstenberg |
| Produced by |
Yoram Globus Menahem Golan Pieter Jan Brugge (executive producer) Shirts Stanley |
| Written by | Charles Parker Allen DeBevoise Jan Ventura Julie Reichert |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Michael Linn |
| Cinematography | Hanania Baer |
| Edited by | Sally Allen Bert Glatstein Bob Jenkis Marcus Manton Barry Zetlin |
| Distributed by |
TriStar Pictures (USA) Cannon Films (non-USA) |
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Release date
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December 21, 1984 |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $15,101,131 |
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is a 1984 film directed by Sam Firstenberg. It is a sequel to the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin'. Electric Boogaloo was released nine months after its predecessor by TriStar Pictures and by Cannon Films a few months later. 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 movies.
Breakin' 2 features three characters from Breakin' – Kelly (Lucinda Dickey), Ozone (Adolfo Quinones), and Turbo (Michael Chambers) – who struggle to stop the demolition of a community recreation center by a developer who wants to build a shopping mall. Viktor Manoel, Ice-T, and Martika (who was little known then) also appear as dancers.
The subtitle "Electric Boogaloo", originally a reference to a funk-oriented dance style of the same name, has entered the pop-culture lexicon as a snowclone pejorative nickname to denote an archetypical sequel. The usual connotation is of either a ridiculous sequel title, or of the follow-up to an obscure or eclectic movie (or other work).
Though most critics rated the film poorly,New York Press film critic Armond White considered it to be "superb" and Roger Ebert gave the film a three-star rating.
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.
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