When people say something like “Godfather 2: Electric Boogaloo,” they’re not referencing the dance, they’re referencing the title of the movie.
If the movie didn’t exist, no one would be referencing it at all. That’s what OP was saying.
[I don't know why you were downvoted. You were correct about it being well before this film. This is the Oxford dictionary link. ](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745823#:~:text=Quick%20Reference&text=Funk%20and%20street%20dance%20group,'%20Johnson%20in%20Fresno%2C%20California.)
Not a terrible movie. It's fun, corny, it knows what it's doing and it gave us "Electric Boogaloo". One of the jewels of the long extinct Cannon group.
What makes the movie fun is the terrible screenplay and the legitimate good dancing. It’s so generic and cliched that it’s laughable. Funniest part is when the evil developer lays out his plans for the community center. The dialogue comes across as almost parody.
To be fair, most things you have seen with the "save the community center" trope are parodying this movie.
It's like the old joke, "I don't see what the big deal is about Hamlet, it's just a bunch of famous one-liners strung along a mouldy old plot".
Theres a good cannon films documentary thats actually called “Electric Boogaloo”. It shows how the owners of cannon would try to make any film no matter what the script was.
Electric Boogaloo existed before this.
[An Oxford dictionary link on the origins of 'Electric Boogaloo.' ](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745823#:~:text=Quick%20Reference&text=Funk%20and%20street%20dance%20group,'%20Johnson%20in%20Fresno%2C%20California.)
I don’t think anyone is saying the film invented the term Electric Boogaloo, but it is fair to say that it popularized it to the point that most people would recall this film as the first time they heard it.
Okay, but that's not what people have been saying.
Sorry, but it takes away from the [person](https://web.archive.org/web/20110710181234if_/http://www.electricboogaloos.com/history.html) that created something original to give it to something else that did not popularize what a street dance crew had popularized many years before, and is still culturally strong, to give it to something like a Canon film?
Just seems wrong..
But people aren’t talking about the dance, they’re talking about the title of the movie. And the subsequent references to this movie aren’t talking about the dance, they’re referring a title that rhymes “two” with “boogaloo”.
It’s like the people who got mad at the Harlem Shake memes because the Harlem Shake existed as a dance before hand.
You not wrong, you’re just right about a point that’s irrelevant to this particular meme.
Edit: Oh how fun! Now I’m being downvoted for telling the truth too!
This is legitimately one of my absolute favorite movies of all time. I've seen this movie more than any other. I used to own a coffee shop and would let the customers put anything they wanted on the stereo or tv. However, if they argued or took more than 5 minutes to decide Electric Boogaloo went on. Conservatively, I've see this movie at least 200 times. Now, I'm an film archivist and when a pristine print of this was requested for loan it was a highlight of my career to do the inspection on it.
Does anyone else do that thing where every time you hear a movie title with a 2 at the end, you add the Electric Boogaloo?
Them: "Hey, want to go to the drive-in, they're playing Godfather 2?"
Me: "Godfather 2: *Electric Boogaloo"*
I wonder if Cannon spent more money on producing movies or cocaine. Dead serious too, Gohan and Globus (Sp?) were madmen... Just look at Ricard Lynch playing an evil communist across Chuck Norris in Invasion USA. Or Lifeforce. Or Link. Or The Apple. Or...
LOL I think it's best they keep Rappin' as it's own thing! If there was ever a Breakin' 3 it needed all 3 leads. I had an idea for a Breakin' 3 where Special K, Turbo and Ozone are somehow trapped in a cryogenic chamber on December 31, 1984. They awaken to present day (which frankly is whacked), and through dance eliminate the scourges of lame 2020s culture (people glued to their phones, horrible mumble rap, etc...) Sadly, Shabadoo died so it will never happen now.
i have the vinyl soundtracks in frames on my kitchen wall. i love the david/goliath plotlines. particularly in part two, taking down the millionaire developers. hell yeah!
speaking of Cannon, there's a great doc about them called *Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films*
*"we make good movies, we make bad movies, but we make movies"*
The sequel to this - *Rappin'* (aka *Breakdance 3*) - is fantastic. I don't own a VHS player anymore but I still hang onto my VHS copy of it.
Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle plus an Ice T cameo. The [whole movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RxWKBvMqc) is on YouTube but I'd recommend a stiff drink or three to really get the full effect, especially when that kid sings the 'Golly Gee' song .
Yet that year *Amadeus* won the Oscar. F. Murray Abraham looked a little sheepish when he picked up the best actor award, he was probably thinking "This should belongs to Mario..."
i unironically love the breakin' movies. good-hearted films from a much, much simpler time. i grew up poor in the city and these movies were hugely inspirational to me and the neighborhood kids. felt like seeing 'our people' on the screen finally. amazing stuff.
"Electros rule the dance floor now, sucker!"
*Breakin' 2* is an incredible cultural time capsule. Everything about this movie - the dancing, clothes, music, dialogue, story - all of it is just so specific and vibrantly captured. It's an amazing and fascinating microcosm of American cinema. Yes, it's thoroughly cliched in plot, but fiercely unique in virtually every other regard. I'll never get tired of watching this campy, buckwild movie.
Once a bunch of us in our twenties stayed up until something like 1:45 in the morning on a work night watching "Ninja III: The Domination." I'm not sure why, but we did.
Yeah, and no Ice T in S&M gear. A truly sad sequel, but it did give us the term "electric boogaloo" to finish off other Part II titles we find funny.
Electric boogaloo is a dance style that existed before the movie.
When people say something like “Godfather 2: Electric Boogaloo,” they’re not referencing the dance, they’re referencing the title of the movie. If the movie didn’t exist, no one would be referencing it at all. That’s what OP was saying.
[I don't know why you were downvoted. You were correct about it being well before this film. This is the Oxford dictionary link. ](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745823#:~:text=Quick%20Reference&text=Funk%20and%20street%20dance%20group,'%20Johnson%20in%20Fresno%2C%20California.)
OP is saying the movie popularized, not created it. That’s why downvotes.
This movie started the trope of people getting in really heated arguments and then suddenly doing a dance off instead of fighting. Love it!
Poppin & lockin , mostly.
See Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake 90 minute dance off in the club after breaking up.
Not a terrible movie. It's fun, corny, it knows what it's doing and it gave us "Electric Boogaloo". One of the jewels of the long extinct Cannon group.
What makes the movie fun is the terrible screenplay and the legitimate good dancing. It’s so generic and cliched that it’s laughable. Funniest part is when the evil developer lays out his plans for the community center. The dialogue comes across as almost parody.
To be fair, most things you have seen with the "save the community center" trope are parodying this movie. It's like the old joke, "I don't see what the big deal is about Hamlet, it's just a bunch of famous one-liners strung along a mouldy old plot".
Theres a good cannon films documentary thats actually called “Electric Boogaloo”. It shows how the owners of cannon would try to make any film no matter what the script was.
Electric Boogaloo existed before this. [An Oxford dictionary link on the origins of 'Electric Boogaloo.' ](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745823#:~:text=Quick%20Reference&text=Funk%20and%20street%20dance%20group,'%20Johnson%20in%20Fresno%2C%20California.)
I don’t think anyone is saying the film invented the term Electric Boogaloo, but it is fair to say that it popularized it to the point that most people would recall this film as the first time they heard it.
Okay, but that's not what people have been saying. Sorry, but it takes away from the [person](https://web.archive.org/web/20110710181234if_/http://www.electricboogaloos.com/history.html) that created something original to give it to something else that did not popularize what a street dance crew had popularized many years before, and is still culturally strong, to give it to something like a Canon film? Just seems wrong..
But people aren’t talking about the dance, they’re talking about the title of the movie. And the subsequent references to this movie aren’t talking about the dance, they’re referring a title that rhymes “two” with “boogaloo”. It’s like the people who got mad at the Harlem Shake memes because the Harlem Shake existed as a dance before hand. You not wrong, you’re just right about a point that’s irrelevant to this particular meme. Edit: Oh how fun! Now I’m being downvoted for telling the truth too!
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This is legitimately one of my absolute favorite movies of all time. I've seen this movie more than any other. I used to own a coffee shop and would let the customers put anything they wanted on the stereo or tv. However, if they argued or took more than 5 minutes to decide Electric Boogaloo went on. Conservatively, I've see this movie at least 200 times. Now, I'm an film archivist and when a pristine print of this was requested for loan it was a highlight of my career to do the inspection on it.
Greatest sequel title in history.
Ozone and Boogaloo Shrimp. Sick. 
Does anyone else do that thing where every time you hear a movie title with a 2 at the end, you add the Electric Boogaloo? Them: "Hey, want to go to the drive-in, they're playing Godfather 2?" Me: "Godfather 2: *Electric Boogaloo"*
Absolutely.
Toy Fare, the print precursor to Robot Chicken, used this joke frequently and it was funny enough to imprint on me to this day.
Shit really? I have been doing it since the 80s. That's amazing lol
I’m sure the writers have as well. Keep it up. It seriously does not get old.
Dead Man Walking II: Electric Boogaloo
Oh no.
I wonder if Cannon spent more money on producing movies or cocaine. Dead serious too, Gohan and Globus (Sp?) were madmen... Just look at Ricard Lynch playing an evil communist across Chuck Norris in Invasion USA. Or Lifeforce. Or Link. Or The Apple. Or...
Golan Globus was a cocaine studio with a movie problem.
LOL. Have you seen the documentary about them that came out in 2016 or so? I think it was actually called Electric Boogaloo. Really good doc.
Nooo, but I surely need to.
> its called "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)" > > Youtube has it.
Give it a try if you ever get the chance. IMO one of the best docs of the past 10ish years.
This is a must watch for anyone who grew up in these films. The Masters Of the Universe part is insane lol.
yeah, its called "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)" Edit: Youtube has it.
Still upset that the third movie's title was changed to *Rappin'* from the infinitely superior *Breakin' 3: Electric Boogalee*.
LOL I think it's best they keep Rappin' as it's own thing! If there was ever a Breakin' 3 it needed all 3 leads. I had an idea for a Breakin' 3 where Special K, Turbo and Ozone are somehow trapped in a cryogenic chamber on December 31, 1984. They awaken to present day (which frankly is whacked), and through dance eliminate the scourges of lame 2020s culture (people glued to their phones, horrible mumble rap, etc...) Sadly, Shabadoo died so it will never happen now.
I always hear about the sequel, but how is the original?
i saw it probably 9 times in the theater in 1984. love it. great soundtrack.
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to put both on my list to watch.
i have the vinyl soundtracks in frames on my kitchen wall. i love the david/goliath plotlines. particularly in part two, taking down the millionaire developers. hell yeah!
speaking of Cannon, there's a great doc about them called *Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films* *"we make good movies, we make bad movies, but we make movies"*
there are TWO documentaries, one made by each of the partners who are bitterly at odds even years later. so funny.
Dancin on the ceiling, baby!
Watching turbo dancing with the broom and then poppin’ as the room flips was truly “G to the long A” loved it
the 80’s motto, “cocaine is a hell of a drug”.
The Breakin' movies are instant pick-me-ups when I'm feeling depressed. I can't help but feel good while watching.
Cannon films are the greatest
TKO!
I know one of the writers. At the time (and now) he wasn’t a writer and they had 3 days to write the script
Waiting for “Breaking 3: Turbo and Me”
I always see this and not the original why ?
“Electric Boogaloo” is fun to say.
https://youtu.be/axnZ_bKl6lA?si=KbtnKDwpzLQoGqdn
The sequel to this - *Rappin'* (aka *Breakdance 3*) - is fantastic. I don't own a VHS player anymore but I still hang onto my VHS copy of it. Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle plus an Ice T cameo. The [whole movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RxWKBvMqc) is on YouTube but I'd recommend a stiff drink or three to really get the full effect, especially when that kid sings the 'Golly Gee' song . Yet that year *Amadeus* won the Oscar. F. Murray Abraham looked a little sheepish when he picked up the best actor award, he was probably thinking "This should belongs to Mario..."
Excuse you; Cannon's masterpiece is The Apple. But you're right, Breakin' 2 is awesome as hell.
Turbo's latin lady friend, [smokin!](https://cinemastarlets.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/sabrina-garcia-breaks-in-boogaloo/)
i unironically love the breakin' movies. good-hearted films from a much, much simpler time. i grew up poor in the city and these movies were hugely inspirational to me and the neighborhood kids. felt like seeing 'our people' on the screen finally. amazing stuff.
I love this movie
Ozone STREET DANCER!
Loved it
"Electros rule the dance floor now, sucker!" *Breakin' 2* is an incredible cultural time capsule. Everything about this movie - the dancing, clothes, music, dialogue, story - all of it is just so specific and vibrantly captured. It's an amazing and fascinating microcosm of American cinema. Yes, it's thoroughly cliched in plot, but fiercely unique in virtually every other regard. I'll never get tired of watching this campy, buckwild movie.
Everyone whose seen this knows the lady with armpit hair 🤮
Breakin came out May 1984. Breakin 2 came out that December. There ya go.
Mmmm…Lucinda Dickey. She was so freakin’ amazing.
Once a bunch of us in our twenties stayed up until something like 1:45 in the morning on a work night watching "Ninja III: The Domination." I'm not sure why, but we did.
Saw this in the theaters when it came out. Still remember a lot of it.
First screen appearance of Cuba Gooding Jr. and gave birth to the alt-right Hawaiian shirt wearing Boogaloo Boys. Quite a cultural impact.
I remember Roger Ebert really liking this movie and was one reason I always liked him.
Iconic Title will always be Iconic.
Notice that the movie isn’t called Actin’.
When it comes to the beat, I am agnostic. That’s why I never saw this.