The Greatest Sequel Ever Made

Video Essay 2: Electric Boogaloo
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[@lukewarmmess_]

Discovering this channel due to the randomness of the algorithm has been one of the best things to happen on the platform in terms of creators. Gurl. You are amazing ❤️🌈

[@ii-dh7lq]

Same

[@bandman7600]

The fact that they produced this sequel so quickly and they had the budget for high school musical 3 level effects has me so shook. They had faith in this movie

[@osmanyousif7849]

What do you mean? High School Musical 3 costed $11 Million. Or are you referring to inflation?

[@zeplinyy]

mr wiggles is like a pioneer in popping (dance style). In a popping dance culture he is like a god. I know his stage name is really funny but he has so much knowledge and skill it's really unbelievable.

[@CarolynHalper]

your sense of humor is elite.

[@clash79]

I was thinking the same. Grade A deadpan

[@joefelice5062]

5:45, as someone who was alive in the 80’s who saw the first film Breakin’ in theaters, I can confirm that the 80’s were just like this - except there is no way in a video to account for the funk of sweat, cheap makeup, and hair stuff all mixed together

[@kealabeam]

Those things all still exist today, so there's really no need.

[@distortedvideos7536]

That dance battle alone rivals some of the greatest fight scenes in film history

[@godmagnus]

Save the rec center movies never fail. What they never fail to do is up for debate.

[@catobear9]

I actually saw Breakin' 2 in a movie theater when it first came out. That could possibly explain how my life turned out as an adult.

[@tescobinliner]

imagine if reality was like this film and any conflict could be solved by dancing. the world would be a much better place

[@msthang5122]

As someone that lived in the 80's and watched Break'n on a loop in my VCR one summer, I can attest that yes, that's exactly how people walked down the street. Rapping, singing, lock'n, popp'n, and break'n at all times, everywhere. It was exhausting and it took forever to get anywhere.

[@solarmoth4628]

I was wondering just how bad a sequel had to be to become synonymous with bad sequels. I have not laughed as hard in year as I did watching this movie. no one I know has watched it and can’t share in the absurdity with me. I like how the movie never addressed where the life size puppet of special K came from and why there was a 2 minute long segment of them dancing with it. like that’s not a normal thing for boyfriends to have is it? maybe the 80’s were different.

[@EvasiveOne]

I thought the same thing!! I couldn’t come up with a good joke for that part but months later I’m still thinking about it

[@matttravers153]

This is the kind of hard-hitting film criticism that KZbin needs more of

[@jobrown95]

RIP Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quiñones

[@SkarrKrow]

The rotating room used for the spiderman sequence is the same one that was built for A Nightmare On Elm Street! Jim Doyle also made Freddy Krueger's glove!

[@gibsonraymonda]

If you’re gonna go with an Ice-T album, I recommend Power. Had it on cassette from a French Canadian kid who lived across the street. Body Count, “Cop Killer,” and playing a kangaroo mutant all came later.

[@o1977jp]

Thanks for making me laugh out loud several times. I grew up watching Breakin' 2 so I do have a fondness for it despite its utter ridiculousness. The music is great though in my opinion. And by the way, the guy who played Ozone allegedly taught Michael Jackson how to do the moonwalk.

[@EvasiveOne]

It’s worth watching for the music alone in my opinion it’s so over the top and fun

[@joshthefunkdoc]

God i love this thing, for me the high-water mark was the hospital scene. Just the whole 80s thing where the song lyrics have to literally describe what's happening on screen, paired with all...*that* happening. Peak cinema imho Also i'm surprised you didn't mention that Ozone's finishing move in the dance battle was to blow a kiss at the other gang leader. Just going to let that speak for itself~

[@djanallightbulb]

My favorite part of that movie is when Ozone likes someone’s moves he says they’re getting off. Look at this guy man. He gets off

[@GKFF9872]

Ok, so I’m seeing this on Jan 6. I screamed when it was referenced.

[@Chuck_EL]

I definitely remember the "breakin" movies, and yes there was actual break dance offs in the streets in the 80s Instead of physical fights, just dance offs, some dance offs were Michael Jackson dance offs too so imagine breakin dance offs mixed with thriller cosplay dancers Fun times indeed .. you have good taste And Ice-T was a Dj prior to his rapping career that's why he was cast in breakin

[@totallynotmrsinister8705]

Bro I thought they made that up for yakuza 0

[@nadjapontenogueira7263]

This channel has brought back the sweet feeling of serotonin to my life.

[@Ohwhale79]

I was born in 79 so I lived through literally 100% of the 80s. I can, in fact, confirm that it was like this! I grew up in Seattle and I saw break dancers on the streets all the time actually. 😂😂😂 It was awesome!

[@tobiasvilainnewman3569]

That Ice-T track you played was actually referenced by Snoop Dogg on the "Turbo" soundtrack, so... yeah... there *is* a Turbo relation...

[@EvasiveOne]

I just looked up the lyrics my mind is blown thank you

[@thelostone6981]

At 48, this movie (plus the first one) was my life when I was 10 years old!!! In fact, I still have my VHS copies despite the fact that I now own them on Blu-ray. Yes, it’s really, really bad, but when you’re a kid…I can’t dance worth crap, but I enjoyed trying to break dance and pop-n-lock. I wish I could say real life was like this, but it wasn’t. It was fun being a kid then, but isn’t that true for most people despite of the generation? This was fun to see someone watch and, um, suffer, through a guilty pleasure movie of mine. 😂😂 I’m now subbed after watching your every Oscar movie video and this one.

[@EvasiveOne]

I thought this movie was so fun it definitely doesn’t deserve to be forgotten purely out of how silly and over the top it is, thank you for stopping by 💜

[@thelostone6981]

@@EvasiveOne It is the epitome of the madness that was Cannon Films. They cranked out soooooooo many bad films in the eighties and there is a documentary about it called…get ready for it…Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films. Nudity warning, because that was how they sold a lot of their bad films. It is worth a watch if you’re interested in how this and other films were made by a couple of people with wild ideas. Glad you liked it and did a review. You definitely have a funny take and hopefully over time we’ll remember just this movie while forgetting about the bunch of nutters who co-oped the title. Another suggestion from the odd 80s filmography is Mannequin. It isn’t a Cannon film, but wowza! Someone was using nose candy when they made it!

[@EvasiveOne]

@@thelostone6981 Those are both on my watchlist! I meant to watch the documentary as part of my research for this video but I didn’t have enough time. Mannequin I wanna watch just because I wanna hear where “nothings gonna stop us now” came from I love when songs from movies become more famous than the movies themselves

[@Darkgod777]

I was born in '82 and I can personally verify that the 80's were a break dancing fever dream after these two movies came out.

[@chim5010]

It is so great that you did a video on this movie. I actually worked on that rotating room. The creator was insane. I worked a total of 24 hours in one day. Building that thing with a few others. All in all. I love the movie.

[@matthiasameer]

Can we confirm that Christopher Nolan stole the idea for the spinning room fight scene from Electric Boogaloo 2?

[@SkarrKrow]

Actually it's Nightmare On Elm Street that gets the honor. The rotating room was designed for Tina's death sequence and shortly afterward was repurposed for Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@daipovs]

Truly I think ice cube having a cameo not once but twice was the most wild part of this ride

[@crystalleyvonne818]

ice t?

[@gunclechuck]

It's 2 am. I meant to go to bed hours ago, but I saw one of your videos in my recommended (which usually isn't that great) and I thought to myself, "that looks fun. One more and then I'll go to bed." My partner sleeps soundly beside me, as I try very hard not to rouse him with my snort laughs. Needless to say, I did not only watch one and my recommended NAILED IT for once. So glad I found your channel! Can't wait to see where you go from here!

[@turtle4llama]

I'm old. This was tiktok. This is how we learned new dances.

[@hiroprotagonitis]

Boogaloo shrimp choreographed for Michael Jackson and supposedly taught him how to moonwalk, so many dance legends and terminology associated with this movie/series yet unfortunately even its discourse has become yet another footnote in the conversation where dancers are not given the respect and credit they deserve

[@XanCrews]

The Yakuza references were absolutely on point. I especially loved the super quiet "Queen of Passion" at the end of the video. Breaker Majima was also fantastic though. Not only was it an appropriate use of breakdance fighting, it's breakdance fighting in the context of gang violence. Well done.

[@blortmeister]

AAAAWESOME video essay! Snark level 100. "This is historically accurate" was just the perfect line. Killer work.

[@bookshelfhoney]

This movie looks like if the Troma people made a dance movie (like toxic avenger, nuke 'em high, etc)

[@ElisaH_DarklyiShine]

lord i watched this movie alot when i was a kid. it was like constant back to back viewing of this and the last dragon, Sho'nuf!!

[@battlegirldeb]

I saw the movie when it first came out. As someone who was alive in 1984. One of the best summer of my life before I into to the 10th grade.

[@kealabeam]

I was a kid in the 80's, but I still remember~ and it was totally exactly like that...like, all the time. 😂

[@m.daigeaun2563]

While I stumbled onto your channel for another video, I am so glad I did. Saw this endlessly as a youth so watching this brought back such joy.

[@DE-GEN-ART]

that dude dancing to "tour de france" by Kraft work with a fucking broom, walked so modern hip hop production could run.

[@CerinaGagne]

I was alive in the '80's and this totally checks out. Oh also... there was ALWAYS a Mime!

[@Wolf_Wendigo]

Hey, I just wanna say thank you for adding my Clussy Fever video into the Electric Boogaloo montage

[@dinosaysrawr]

Can we bring back the sadomasochistic queer postapocalyptic biker look, please?

[@fenian123]

I see Female Trouble on the shelf, you gotta do a video on that!😆

[@garyv83]

How did I not know that you did the best 80s of the 1980s ever, let alone the best sequel ever!? Nice shades and moves, by the way. And I'd like to point out that I unironically loved the "dancing-on-a-ceiling" scene as a kid. Oh, and, despite my town being an embarrassing hot bed of extremely -ist and -phobic newsworthy activities, our local celebrity convention once had Ozone there, so you could say we're kind of a big deal. P.S. Let me know when you've posted that video essay about misleading food names so I can keep an eye out for my name in the credits.

[@ajsantiago78]

Fun fact: Breakin' 1 had an uncredited (but very recognizable) cameo appearance by Jean Claude Van Damme in his first ever movie role. He is a spectator in one of the first dance sequences. Also, I have no idea how this video ended up in my feed, but screw it. I'm in!

[@HashiTomi]

I watched this with my mom when I was a kid. It was a fever dream. I didn't rediscover it til 32 and it was so hilarious in those "its so bad it's good" ways.

[@JadeCryptOfWonders]

I bought a 3 DVD set of Breakin 1 & 2 and Beat Street from a physical media vendor years ago and these movies are unique portraits of the eighties hip hop culture they document.

[@randomsleepyness]

the description of this video is brilliant, you ARE a genius

[@madsstrawberry]

“Turbo’s girlfriend came out of the closet” 🏳️‍🌈?🏳️‍⚧️?

[@cacography]

i loved this movie so much when i was little. it felt like the absolute height of coolness.

[@Cdr2002]

3:59 this same strategy was also used twice in the Kaiju genre: King Kong (1933) and Son of Kong And MUCH more successfully, Mothra vs Godzilla and Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster

[@ptupper72]

Lucinda Dickey was also in Ninja III: The Domination, also in 1984.

[@FollowerofDuck]

your humour is top tier

[@Juiceharlot]

You are so much fun!!! I am so glad I found your channel. Your humor is so funny!!!!

[@sapodetenis]

i watched this movie with my friends bc of this video and we had a blast. thank you!!

[@EvasiveOne]

thank u for keeping the electric boogaloo fandom alive

[@Gibbs-yf8bl]

Im so upset with how well the through line of alt right radicalism worked in this video. Incredible work

[@Thicc_Woods]

i’ve never been happier at youtube recommendations

[@Cdr2002]

Evolving the “calling a guy who crawls on a Ceiling/wall ‘Spider-Man’.” Joke to acknowledging the character in question as a multiverse variant Spidey is actually kinda genius in a way that appeals to my nerd brain

[@Emma-tf1yn]

just finished watching all of your videos and good god are you funny. haven't enjoyed this website like this in months. keep up the awesome work!

[@serenitymoon825]

I literally used "Electric Boogaloo" in a chapter title from one of my fanfics recently. Well, kinda. The title is "Time Skip 2: Encanto Boogaloo", since it's an Encanto fic and I was writing a time skip chapter and couldn't think of a better name.

[@ArturGlass.C]

I can't tell if every dance movie I ever watched was apparently a rip off of the plot of Electric Boogaloo or if anyone's just never been capable of writing a different plot for a dance movie and that was happening much before Electric Boogaloo.

[@eVanDiesel]

Loved both these movies as a kid. I old.

[@m.butterfly7452]

So basically, this where is step up took inspiration from

[@thefaulkness]

My name is Ice-T and I'm here to say I'm the rappinest rapper in the USA

[@oregonsenior4204]

10:15 they used the Fred Astaire rotating-room trick! From Easter Parade.

[@bearsleethere6996]

its incredible that this is only your 2nd vid essay, very well made. You are super funny and I love the commentary

[@jessicaholscher4097]

I love this channel. i love your humor so much.

[@v.i.p.entertainment5111]

You're videos are awesome I love your sense of humor, subscribed!

[@dr.cornwater2886]

The soundtrack to this slaps so hard. It is rife with potential samples. The theme alone is one of the hardest bops omg.

[@sofiasass9881]

Take a shot every time she says “electric” or “boogaloo”

[@redwaytoo]

There's a sequel to Breakin'? What it's even called, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?

[@AngelLozadaBlindNun]

While a VERY unfortunate movie, no two ways about it, there is so much Hip-Hop culture, jargon, history and language to glean here. I'm not saying that missing it improves the film, but that uts astounding how even in a bad film you can see how much Hip-Hop was already affecting the zeitgeist. It's beautiful in a wacky kind of way.

[@reminicrush9016]

Having watched the movie again recently, the idea of building a shopping mall was actually a good idea. It would have brought a lot of new jobs to the neighborhood. Lol

[@evo3035]

love your videos, your edits are too funny

[@DNOPLAYSGAMES]

My mum ( non+english speaker) would love this but im scared to show her it because when she discovered grease and dirty dancing sehe loop watched them no less than 200 times on every tv in the house for years. I left home for school im the 2000s to the sound of john travolta and olivia newton john an abusive amount of times. Debating whether for the sake of my dad and brother who still lives at home, to buy her this or not.

[@silverstitch28]

One of my childhood favourites in the 80s ❤

[@henriquebastosbernardoni3630]

Considering all I knew about this movie was the Electric Boogaloo meme and that it flopped HARD because of the horrible, horrible release schedule, it seems to be more okay than I expected. Not good, but not horrible either. It would be your usual forgetable film with an easy narrative to make quick money, if it wasn't for the whole flop side of things.w

[@Cdr2002]

I spent years thinking the electric boogaloo sequel name meme came from the cancelled Earthbound followup

[@MrChuckGrape]

I was around a little bit in the 1980s. I just remember a lot of Billy Joel and that one Beach Boys song.

[@alexjoseph7773]

I’m really enjoying how you edit your videos ❤

[@jooree7696]

Mr. Wiggles deserves his own movie

[@dawnslack5515]

That scene is like the Inception hallway fight.

[@pricebaer6886]

New favorite channel, not just the content you cover, but you got an editing style and character that’s gunna make you successful. And yes I’ve had two white claws, stop asking me!

[@bubbles581]

the part where you rolled on the street LOLOLOLOL and yes the 1980s were just like that

[@hillythekidd5240]

idk this went triple platinum in my household LMAO

[@willow_wise]

Love your sense of humor!

[@tfoxabides]

When I was growing up one summer HBO had this movie on heavy rotation and I hate to admit how many times I watched it. This movie and Barry Gordy's Enter the dragon.

[@mabailey5938]

Your hair and commentary are pretty rad in this vid

[@johnligon2368]

Yeah it definitely was like that. This is one of my fond memories of the 80s. Yep, I'm very old. Lol

[@bbtb785]

I named my kitten Mr. Wiggles...through the power of dance - Turbo style.

[@ethansteele6366]

Great stuff, can’t wait till you blow up

[@thewingedporpoise]

this is quite possibly the best video I have watched all year the video of all time, the sequel of all time

[@KawaiiEllimist]

This whole channel is currently keeping me sane, thanks for making top tier content 💖

[@isaiahcrawford6014]

I really love this. Thank you.

[@jefersonribeiro9319]

The JoJo reference really caught me off guard.

[@sonjaisaacs1200]

I saw this movie as a kid in the 80s. I approve!

[@andrewmaclellan608]

Genius. Not the movie, your video essay I mean. Also the "plot" of the 2011 Muppets movie.

[@SugaredViolette]

8:34, WELP, I guess I gotta subscribe to you now!

[@Cdr2002]

Why does Special J’s actress give me “80s Nicle de Boer” vibes

[@fltngmmth]

This channel is great… my life is great because of this channel. Mwa