The one other redeemable trait of Breakin 2, is it's attempt (no matter how lame an attempt) to portray a part of American culture that few people outside of major cities such as Los Angeles and New York knew anything about. The soundtrack wasn't as ripping as the original, but it's listenable without being annoying. Ozone's rooftop number and Turbo's dancing on the ceiling are very enjoyable.

As stated earlier, where this movie shines is in the dancing. Sub-plots include Kelly's racist parent attempting to bribe her by offering to bail out the center(only if she denounces her street friends and goes to college), and Kelly and Ozone's phantom romance (they never seriously kiss or get romantic in either film, which was the norm for interracial affairs in the 80's). How will they do it? How else, by putting on a street carnival (I told you this wasn't Pulp Fiction). The city does gives the trio one month to raise $150,000 to get the old center up to building standards or lose it to Douglas. Kelly rejoins her ghetto comrades to stand against Douglas, and the city, who holds the lease on the building. Douglas (character actor Peter MacLean), who wants to buy the land where the rec center sits and build a shopping mall. Needing a break from the lifestyle of the rich and famous, she goes to visit her 'boyz in the hood' buds Ozone and Turbo, who seem to have found a better niche in life, teaching kids at a community center in East Los Angeles. Unlike Ozone and Turbo, Kelly is not a product of the streets, and must also deal with her stereotypically written 'rich parents,' who want her to stop wasting her life dancing and go to Princeton. Kelly (Dickey), Ozone (Aldolfo 'Shabba Doo' Quinones) and Turbo (the phenomenal Michael 'Boogalo Shrimp' Chambers have finished up what appears to have been a short run of their musical 'Street People.' Having gone their separate ways, Kelly is finding life in the chorus line a dead end. The thinly written plot of Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo takes up where Breakin left off.

The cast are all attractive (Lucinda Dickey looks hot as hell in this one, and check out Sonny Bono's sexy ex-wife Susie Coelho playing Kelly's rival). The clothes (remember this is the 80's), well they're a laugh in themselves. The dancing, while not as riveting as it's predecessor, is enjoyable.

It is what it is, mindless entertainment. That being said, let me now state that Breakin 2 IS NOT a 'bad movie' either. The acting is weak, the plot very 'Andy Hardy,' and the dialog, well let just say, it wouldn't have been any better if Golan/Globus would have gotten Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep to star in this film. Let me start by acknowledging that Breakin 2 (the sequel to 1984's Breakin, which was a box office hit) IS NOT a great movie.

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