Fight Clip Club: Breakin’ 2 (Electric Boogaloo)

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You know, it’s funny: for a movie (series!) that’s so centered about dance, and the cultural and artistic importance of same, the quality of it all is just really…well it’s not good. There’s a lot of dance in Breakin’ 1 and 2, and none of it’s nearly as high quality as I feel like it should be.

I don’t say this because I look at breakdancing as lowbrow – it’s one of the more vibrant and demanding styles of dance that exist, and far from looking down my nose at it, I was actually a little breakdancer wannabe during this era, the height of breakdance’s popularity, side by side with the utter dance genius that was Michael Jackson. Though Jackson wasn’t technically a breaker, his flavor of jazz dance was certainly adjacent, as much as it was unique to him. As an adolescent dancer and child of a dance teacher, I took classes in both breakdancing and the iconic zombie dance sequence from the Thriller music video.

But if there’s anything worse quality than the dancing in these films, it’s got to be the acting. I don’t know if this is so bad it’s good, or just so bad. Either way, this scene is hot cheese of the utmost melted Velveeta variety, and as we haven’t looked closely at any fight so full of cheese since…I don’t know, Last Dragon maybe? let’s get into it.

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