Electric Bugaloo

December 13, 2019 5:49 AM

Breakin' 1984

bonus!
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) [1,2,3,4,5,6(!),7,8,9,10,11 :]

posted by kliuless (23 comments total)

Golan-Globus...now there's a name I haven't heard for a long, long time.
posted by jquinby at 5:52 AM on December 13, 2019 [6 favorites]

Starring Lucinda Dickey, whom I had a big crush on back in the day. Dickey was also in Ninja III: The Domination (which an ad in the local paper rendered as Ninja III: The Denomination), in which a ninja sword possessed her (via the ever-popular arcade cabinet) and thus she put on the black pajamas and went around ninjaing. Best scene in the movie, if not in the entire eighties, was when she was trying to resist The Domination by putting a record on the hi-fi and dancing--as one does--and the glowing ninja sword floats over to her stereo and cuts it in half.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:31 AM on December 13, 2019 [3 favorites]

Fakest graffiti evar
posted by chavenet at 6:41 AM on December 13, 2019

"Electric Boogaloo" is an acceptable alternate title for any sequel immediately following the first film. This is trivia law.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:41 AM on December 13, 2019 [18 favorites]

"Wonder Woman 2: Electric Boogaloo"?
posted by ZeusHumms at 6:46 AM on December 13, 2019 [5 favorites]

EXACTLY
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:53 AM on December 13, 2019 [7 favorites]

@grumpybear69, sure, but just wait until someone makes a movie titled "Electric Boogaloo" and it does well enough so that people demand a sequel. Will "Electric Boogaloo 2: Electric Boogaloo" trigger some kind of bizarre, recursive time loop?
posted by Marco Polo's Lost Codpiece at 7:03 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

Electric Boogaloo 2: Electric Boogalooception

BWOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 7:24 AM on December 13, 2019 [4 favorites]

I would definitely watch Terminator 2: Electric Boogaloo.
posted by mhoye at 7:34 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

Will "Electric Boogaloo 2: Electric Boogaloo" trigger some kind of bizarre, recursive time loop?

It would be more popular than '2 Electric 2 Boogaloo'.
posted by ZeusHumms at 7:35 AM on December 13, 2019 [6 favorites]

Metafilter 2: Electric Boogaloo
posted by stevis23 at 7:45 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

82 Metafilter posts have 'Boogaloo' in their title or opening paragraph.
posted by ZeusHumms at 8:17 AM on December 13, 2019 [5 favorites]

Lets not forget about the long forgotten third film in the trilogy: Rappin' - Breakdance 3: Electric Boogalee, otherwise known as just Rappin'.

It looks terrible but I may try to dig it up because it was filmed here in Pittsburgh and I recognize some of the streets in that trailer.
posted by octothorpe at 8:25 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

"Electric Boogaloo" is an acceptable alternate title for any sequel immediately following the first film. This is trivia law.

The roots of this go deep into history. I worked in our college radio station in the very early 90s and in the booth was a widget plugged into the wall: a Radio Shack "Fone Flasher 2", under which someone had scrawled "ELECTRIC BOOGALOO"
posted by jquinby at 9:06 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

My VHS copies of these work just fine, thank you.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:29 AM on December 13, 2019

...just wait until someone makes a movie titled "Electric Boogaloo" and it does well enough so that people demand a sequel. Will "Electric Boogaloo 2: Electric Boogaloo" trigger some kind of bizarre, recursive time loop?

That's the title for the Golan/Globus documentary which I highly recommend
posted by exparrot at 11:48 AM on December 13, 2019

Breakin's 2: Let's Save the Community Center!
posted by borges at 11:52 AM on December 13, 2019

Don't miss the brief appearance of Jean Claude Van Damme.
posted by Chrysostom at 12:23 PM on December 13, 2019

I asked Talk to Transformer to predict future Breakin' sequel titles:

Breakin' 3: Something Bleedin'
Breakin' 4: Al Gore
Breakin' 5: Bossy
Breakin' 6: Cody Raines/Al Gore
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 12:34 PM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Boogaloo
posted by ZeusHumms at 1:54 PM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

Absolutely true confession time: I saw both Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo in the movie theater first run probably within the first 2 weeks of their release.
posted by hippybear at 6:41 PM on December 13, 2019 [4 favorites]

Aw, this brings back happy memories! My now-wife and I HAD to watch Breakin' after a period where we were kind of ridiculously obsessed with the Slap Chop Rap and needed to see the source of the incredible dance clips peppered throughout (starting around 1:20, though really, why wouldn't you want to watch the whole thing?). We weren't even going out yet, though I feel like the fact that we were still watching and laughing at that stupid video long after all our friends had gotten over it should have been a sign that we were Meant To Be.
posted by DingoMutt at 11:56 PM on December 13, 2019

LOVE THIS MOVIE. High school graduation 1984 -- as soon as the grad ceremony ended, I skipped all of celebrations and headed to the theatre to watch it. The earnestness, the music, the just-barely believable acting of these young performers, it all just works. And learning over the years about the impact of Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones on the world of dance - even better. Unabashedly love this movie.
posted by davidmsc at 9:56 AM on December 14, 2019 [1 favorite]