Review of Breakin' (1984) by Commish G — 15 Jun 2010

On a whim I netflixed Breakin' to see if it was as good as I had remembered it being back in 1984.

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It wasn't.

Granted some of the dancing, especially the popping and locking, was pretty good, but it's sort of like seeing wushu from the 60's vs. wushu of the 80's. I think some of the older breakers might have had better flavor than the one's today (which could probably be debated) but the over-all skill level and physical ability wasn't as high as the people today.

And don't get me started on the acting. It made the acting in [i]You Got Served[/i] look Shakespearean in comparison. Any more wooden and the actors would have had beavers chomping on their legs. Granted, they weren't actors, they were dancers, but still. [i]yeeeesh[/i].

I could only get about 3/4 of the way through the movie before I had to take it out and put [i]You Got Served[/i] in and jump through all the dancing sequences, just to get the memory of [i]Breakin'[/i] out of my head.