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Breakdance - The Movie [DVD] [1984]

DVD ~ Lucinda Dickey
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers, Ben Lokey, Christopher McDonald
  • Directors: Joel Silberg
  • Writers: Allen DeBevoise, Charles Parker, Gerald Scaife
  • Producers: Allen DeBevoise, David Zito, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Ilc Prime
  • DVD Release Date: 11 Oct 2004
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000649KW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,895 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description

DVD Special Features:

Cast/Crew Biographies
Hip Hop Timeline
How To Breakdance
Photo Gallery
B-boy Battle Score Sheet

English Language, Dolby Digital Sound
Screen Format 4:3



Synopsis

In this 1980s classic, a struggling jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) teams up with two hot breakdancers (Adolfo Quinones and Michael Chambers) in an attempt to win a big-time dance competition. The music score features the hits "Breakin'...There's No Stoppin Us," and "Freakshow on the Dance Floor." BREAKIN' also features Ice-T's screen debut.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulously aweful movie....., 1 Dec 2004
In 1984, I was ten years old and I first watched this movie with my eyes bulging out of my head. In fact, looking back, 'Breakdance the Movie' (or 'Breakin', as it was known in the U.S) changed my life. Before this film, my record collection consisted of a few 'Musical Youth' seven inches and a couple of Michael Jackson albums. After watching this film, I started collecting electro records, hip hop albums and began to roll around our school dinner hall like a fool.

The film itself is terribly acted, has a dreadful script and is shot with the same artful grace as an episode of 'Falcon Crest'. There are shocking continuity errors which just emphasises that the film was rushed out and packaged up to capitalise on the popularity of breakdancing during the early eighties. During the first 'battle' scene between 'Ozone'/'Turbo and 'Electro Rock', watch how a scowling member of the crowd (dude with huge afro) appears to magically appear in nearly every shot. The character, 'Kelly' (played by Lucinda Dickey, who you may now find shuffling around L.A pushing a supermarket trolley full of aluminium cans)is quite frankly, an embarrassment to the acting profession.

However, the importance of this film is the huge cultural impact it had on the many young people around the world who were fortunate to see it. Technically, this movie is about as bad as they come but I paid for a copy on DVD, as I will eternally be grateful to it because, like I said before, it changed my life.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BREAKIN'...... The Ultimate Dance Movie, 3 Nov 2004
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This review is from: Breakin' [DVD] [1984] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
BREAKIN' is quite simply the best dance movie to come out of the wonderous 1980's. It was released in cinemas in 1984 and starred Lucinda Dickey(NINJA III: THE DOMINATION)as a classical dance student who quickly bores of her mundane classes and the seedy attempts by her dance teacher (Ben Lokey) to seduce her. One day her friend from dance class Phineas Newborn III introduces her to the local breakdancing scene held on venice beach. Kelly befriends Ozone and Turbo the two master street dancers on the scene, who after being defeated by a rival gang, the Electro Rocks, teach Kelly how to breakdance. The trio then take the rival gang on and win. Meanwhile Kelly also has had many dissapointing dance auditions via her talent agent James played by Christopher McDonald. When Kelly tells James she wants her two breakdancing friends to enter for a big time audition with her, he is dubious and so is the entire dance world. But all this aside, the body popping trio over ride the system and get into the audition and end up in a really big dance show. BREAKIN' like Flasdance (1983) is pretty much the same story but with a much more light hearted feel to it. Flashdance is drama. BREAKIN'is a feel good movie which the whole family can watch. It's also a terrific part of the 80's. BREAKIN' in europe is titled Breakdance and sometimes Breakdance The Movie.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars breakdance,20 years on still a must see film, 23 April 2003
By leezaal (sommerset,uk) - See all my reviews
lucinda dickey(kelly k),adolfo quinones(ozone).michael"boogaloo shrimp"chambers(turbo)
head the cast in this vibrant,colourfull dance movie.
The music includes ice-t,the barkays,ollie & jerry george kranz and even kraftwerk.
This movie is funky & fun and contains some of the best breakin moves still copied to this day!.
Coupled with great performances from ben lokey,lucinda dickey and chistopher macdonald make this one of my all time fav films.
The movie must have been quite a gamble at the time of its making but one which in my opinon,paid off.
If breakin was never your thing don't simply dismiss this film give it a try,i guarantee you will leave it with a smile on your face.
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