Miami Connection (1987) (Obscurus Lupa Presents) (FROM THE ARCHIVES)

[@couchalmark675]

Honestly the absolute lack of irony or cynicism in the music makes it kind of great. It's just really charming in its sincerity.

[@lloydsharpe7641]

My name is Lloyd Sharpe and i'm the guy who sang played and co wrote Escape from Miami, Tough Guys , and the song in the final credits Tae Kwando Family. The movie was supposed to be called Escape From Miami but they changed it to Miami Connection after we had recorded the songs. They called us The Lloyds Richards band but there was no band that was just the first names of me and the keyboard player. The songs were all written on one day by me the keyboard player and Bill Young who was the club owner that had the fight scene with the old band leader in the movie. We recorded 4 songs in one day in the studio, one did'nt make the movie but it's on the soundtrack. I had nothing to do with Dragon Sounds music i never even met them. Anyway that's the story of the Soundtrack. After i saw the movie i told them they should turn it into a comedy but believe me they were dead serious they thought it was going to win an Oscar.

[@AllisonPregler]

Wow, great to hear from you! Thanks so much for the insight! And fabulous job on the music.

[@jj48]

I think the soundtrack being unironically enjoyable to listen to is part of what makes this film fun to rewatch instead of merely bearable. Thank you for your work!

[@Kathee0320]

OMG, I play Jane in this movie and you have me in stitches 😂😂😂 You’re hilarious!!! Thanks for the laughs, and I’m only halfway through! 😂😂😂

[@AllisonPregler]

omg thanks so much!

[@Boobalopbop]

Wow, really?? I recently saw this whole movie (Rifftrax version, sorry 😬), but whenever you're on screen I couldn't stop thinking about how gorgeous you are. Like Paula Abdul but even prettier!

[@Kathee0320]

@@Boobalopbop thanks!!! 😊

[@JanetStarChild]

@@AllisonPregler Allison, you totally gotta pin the OP's comment to the top. An alumni of Miami Connection is kind of a big deal.

[@atlasking6110]

Hi Kathee - you were the best part of this movie!

[@bojanboskovic8880]

Dragon Sound: Nena (German singer who sang '99 Luftballons) as the lead vocalist, John Oates (of Hall and Oates) as the back-up vocal and guitarist and Lionel Richie as the keyboard/synthesizer player

[@TerminallyNerdy]

Orlando has always been run by ninjas and rock bands. Sometimes though, we get packs of Theme Park Mascots. Those folks are BRUTAL. Also I was trained by YK Kim as a kid at his Tae Kwan Do School. I was a such a damn fanboy I went and saw this in the theaters.

[@FuugaNatsu]

What was it like watching this in a proper cinema?

[@TrueBuddhaCat]

(“Against the Ninja” starts playing”) You bet your ass I started singing! I FREAKIN LOVE THAT SONG!! Sounds like a classic cheesy 80’s song and it is catchy as hell! Thank god Alamo Drafthouse released the entire soundtrack!

[@RyBPierce]

At about midnight, central time, the Friends for Eternity song popped randomly into my head, and I couldn't for the life of me remember where it came from. Naturally, I came to KZbin, typed in the handful of lyrics I could remember, and up popped a video for Far Cry Blood Dragon. That's it, I thought, hitting play and listening for about thirty seconds. Satisfied that I would not spend the next hour laying in bed, racking by brain for where this song came from, I started to close the KZbin app when I noticed the rest of the search results. Miami Connection? I always thought this song was a joke written for Blood Dragon...no way it could be an actual 80's song for an actual 80's movie. But, alas, Obscurus Lupa proved me wrong. Thank you, Lupa.

[@brianbagnall3029]

This is one of the best! The facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission.

[@CaptainPeregrin]

That song seriously sounds like a song I would write as a child xD

[@KageMaxwell]

That running "Take your pants off!" gag. 😂 I find myself quoting that at random times.

[@tbewin1z143]

It's annoying and it ruined the review for me!!!

[@batoutofmel4959]

I really admire your commitment to thematic costuming. I admire you generally, but also for that.

[@Lava91point0]

“Only through the elimination of violence, can we achieve world peace” *movie synopsis: drugs and ninjas*

[@ProBreakers]

That friends song rocks. I remember hearing it first in the game Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.

[@ObiWanGinobiliTopFan]

Ah yes, the good old days back when ninja gangsters were everywhere, roaming the land in search of rock and roll bands to randomly fight...I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@brianfuller7691]

This film is seriously fun.

[@Ikerot]

BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL ORPANS!

[@PIXPromosMore]

"My favorite Orpan is Olivar Twost!" Rifftrax---

[@dreamlandnightmare]

Sounds more like he is saying "orpeds".

[@lurchlogan]

"I tot we wur aww orpan"!! "We gaht jahb form asian... Dont bottle uss"!!

[@RIVALContentJammerz]

Friends forever! Breakfast time and lunch time, Friends forever! Snack time, too!

[@Tareltonlives]

♫Friends for eternity, sharing the utilities, washing pubic hair off the soap!♫

[@lurchlogan]

@@Tareltonlives... 🤣🤣 Isn't that from Rifftrax ??

[@MotownFan1962]

🎶 Filming people without permission! Nobody signed a waiver today! 🎶

[@kevinthepilgrim]

I love the “Friends” song...it’s so 80’s!!!

[@missy_of_strange868]

I think we need to have a 80's style workout video with the music in this movie. It's just too fitting

[@StevenAbney]

As someone who grew up doing Tae Kwon Do in the 80’s,, I can attest that it was EXACTLY like this. That yellow belt was like catnip to the ladies.

[@jj48]

I went to UCF in the 2000s, but we still had people constantly missing class to take out drug-dealing motorcycle ninjas or go on world tours with their Tae Kwon Do bands.

[@Tareltonlives]

I have sung "Friends" in front of my family, my friends, and in public.

[@jj48]

That ones in my playlist unironically.

[@TraineeHero]

Well, thank you for this review! It was just great! Wonderful! It changed my life! BECAUSE EVERY SO OFTEN, THE SONGS FROM THIS MOVIE WILL TRAIPSE THROUGH MY MIND LIKE A TROUPE OF DEMENTED CAN-CAN DANCERS!!!

[@Juliejpp]

I love against the ninja. Great song. You and cinema snob did a great job reviewing Miami Connection.

[@MiXVoy]

don't forget Brandon Tenold

[@shorsbigmouth]

@@MiXVoy The holy trinity of reviewers.

[@BloodrealmX]

I don't see the problem with Dragon Sound. They sound great and they're cheesy fun!

[@inthezone4123]

Movie Nights, you won me over. Nicely done! Against the Ninja!

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Her brother is the old 12 inch GI Joe doll from the 70s! I swear the one that came with the ATV was dressed just like that guy.

[@MusicMaing]

This review was one of the funniest I've ever seen. Subbed!

[@Haveba]

Love your reaction at 10:19. Against the Ninja is an awesome song.

[@bojanboskovic8880]

The first lyric of the opening song, 'Bikers by day, ninjas by night', would be a good tagline of the movie on the front cover of VHS (back in the day) and DVD (and BluRay, if it exists) box, I think

[@Wannabe_Baby]

I sang it. "Against the ninjaaaaa ..."

[@clearcat7296]

Put me down for 20 bucks! Against the ninja! ~Rifftrax

[@thebigs14]

I haven't laughed this much in years!

[@JThom529]

Wow, main baddie is more torn up about the brother than the actual sister. Eh whatever, TAKEYO PAANTS OOFF

[@henrygvidonas9573]

He's a motivational speaker... who barely speaks the language he lectures in. Can't get more "American" than that.

[@jj48]

When I was in college, I had many, many professors who were first-generation immigrants and had strong accents. Yet, the hardest to understand was--by far--a native Floridian who had the thickest drawl I've ever heard.

[@BloodrealmX]

That is an extremely long and sustained scream for someone who just had their chest cleaved open.

[@jonathanturek5846]

Oh boy ! Miami connection I'm excited for this ripping

[@EnsignRicky011]

Rewatching this, and no joke, I seriously want a Ed Wood/Disaster Artist/My Name I Dolemite style movie about YK Kim and this movie. I will give all of my money for this to happen.

[@ciaran3629]

I had have and always will have a huge crush on Lupa 😮

[@ColeVecsion]

Of all the legendary so bad it's hillarious movies, this is my personal fav, also i unironicly love the soundtrack, against the ninja, mother fuckers!

[@Tareltonlives]

I can watch this film over and over again. Okay, usually on Rifftrax, but even unriffed. It is a Disasterpiece: a horrible movie that is just so loveable

[@RIVALContentJammerz]

DID YOU KNOW? The black guy went on to defeat Mark Coleman and win the UFC Heavyweight Title? No joke, that squeaky voiced pantless guy is legendary Hall of Famer, Maurice Smith.

[@lurchlogan]

Wrong Maurice Smith... They have two very different IMDB pages & no mention of 'Miami Connection' in Maurice Smith's(the MMA Fighter)Wiki page. Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Maurice Smith has been in Martial Arts Films though,but his first film was Blood Fist(1990). Miami Connection was made in 1987. I can understand the confusion though... They're both Black,Around the Same Age,Have the Same Name,Both been in Martial Arts Films & are Associated with Martial Arts!!

[@fatimagic1365]

i'm allison at 10:18. seriously, someone needs to put this song over the tech-noir scene in terminator.

[@James198983]

Those credits. Were amazing.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"Anyway, here's Witchcraft 14." In a few years, Allison...

[@handsolo1076]

Fingerless gloves = subscription!

[@Valdagast]

DON'T... BOTHEL.. US!!

[@floydlooney6837]

R/L is the same character in Korean. They know it's funny because I was watching a Korean series and a place had a Rocker Room sign for a locker room.

[@e93sports80]

I enjoyed the outro.

[@e93sports80]

I mean the song during the credits.

[@euansmith3699]

Mild Explosion sounds like a great easy-listening band name.

[@tessalyyvuo1667]

"Oophans." Seriously though, I can still understand his accent better than a really thick Finnish accent. And I say that as a Finn.

[@fondajames]

I actually really like the theme song haha

[@zyxkafex6064]

Howdy, Alison! Love your work! Not for nothin' or whatnot, but what was the whole "Take your pants off" thing 'bout? I'd have to assume it's a reference to somethin'.

[@Tareltonlives]

Look, I'm just saying a Kill Bill- Sesame Street Crossover would be pretty awesome

[@ShadeMeadows]

Damn, just tasted a cigar, smells great but... yeah, i now know i don't like to smoke! great experience tough! *COUGH*

[@japantuning88]

Allison looks a bit like young Carrie Fisher in the end credits.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

(Fist pump) “KUNG-FU!”

[@Ryan-k9w]

..."They're sleeping on U-Haul blankets? What a sad state of affairs."...😂

[@MarvinLowe1983]

Witchcraft 14- oh how the tables have turned, go on Allison, joke about Withcraft 666 and see what happens :)

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

"Bye, byeeeee."

[@floydlooney6837]

26:55 Love those ending credits

[@Lucky_Chase]

Dancin' Ninja Blondie 2.0

[@b-zoneonroku2020]

You sang it right?

[@jj48]

I went to college at UCF, and I can confirm that Orlando is pretty strictly divided between martial arts bands and drug-dealing motorcycle ninjas. ...and the "good circle" folks. We got along with everybody.

[@peterp2626]

You held the shift key for too long when you wrote the title.

[@AllisonPregler]

Thanks for the correction :)

[@tarmoruusu7933]

Man, does Phelan look weird in this video. It has to be the thin moustache and the five o'clock shadow. (I guess it's him because he's mentioned in the credits and that guy looks the most like him)

[@floydlooney6837]

That video at the end is stretch a teeny bit, makes them look wider

[@threeminutesfast]

John, Jane, Jack, Jeff, does everyone’s name in this movie start with J?

[@Tareltonlives]

Don't fortune uncle Jo!

[@brianfuller5868]

So bad its good.

[@WhiteManOnCampus]

Lupa! Take ya pants off!

[@jonathanturek5846]

Wait ! Wrong bad movie that was Howard the duck oops

[@thebigs14]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@arkayoarkayo4739]

..."the "uzh" (usual)...😂

[@brendakrieger7000]

💜

[@akiameko1984]

"How much do you like chocolate cupcakes?" I don't like chocolate... Here, have a strawberry one.

[@angelojannotti7988]

Hilarious Review!!!!! I'm curly !!

[@MARKWILLIAMS-tm4rf]

Wait, what, there were others films made worse than this? Say it ain't so!

[@jj48]

There are plenty of movies (I'm not confident many were actually shot on film) that make Miami Connection look Oscar-worthy. This may not be the best one out there, but it's nowhere near the bottom of the barrel!