There's the glorious chestnut about a classically trained dancer (in this case, Lucinda Dickey as jazz-trained daughter of privilege, Kelly a.k.a. For decades, smart asses have jokingly affixed 'Electric Boogaloo', the notorious subtitle of the second film, to a series of comically unlikely would-be sequels, although in recent years its title as the undisputed king of facetious subtitles has been challenged by such other gloriously specific, evocative subtitles as the Wall Street sequel's 'Money Never Sleeps' and The Hobbit follow-up's 'The Desolation Of Smaug'Īs a longtime pop culture writer, I have joked about the premises of the Breakin' franchise long before I saw them because, in just two wonderfully cheesy breakdancesploitation extravaganzas, the Breakin' series used three of the most quintessentially cheesy dance movie plots ever committed to film. At this point it seems safe to assume that more people have made jokes about the Breakin' movies than have actually seen them.
