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MOVIE REVIEW: BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

You will have to work to find your copy of this week's movie for review. However, "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" is worth searching for. I've never actually seen "Breakin' 1", but the important thing is that Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers were all able to make it back to star in the sequel.

Early on we are introduced (reintroduced?) to two enthusiastic break dancing youths named Ozone and Turbo. Ozone and Turbo love to dance, and they dress just like Michael Jackson does, so of course they are two very cool guys. Much of the plot (there are only about 4 minutes of total plot, so take that for what it is) centers on the relationship between Ozone and leading lady Kelly. Kelly looks like Mary Lou Retton, and is on the fast track to a promising career in theatre. She comes from wealth, and her parents spend most of their time sitting around a pool, as wealthy people love to do, plotting and scheming on how to convince their daughter to spend less time with Ozone and Turbo, whom they hold in low regard.

As if Kelly's pressures at home weren't enough, back in Ozone's neighborhood a developer wants to build a shopping center on the site of a beloved community center where the break dancing community tends to gather. I suppose that it goes without saying that the developer is an evil developer. Everyone knows by now that developers are the scourge of civilization.

Can Kelly, Ozone, and Turbo save the community center? Will Kelly's parents learn to accept her friends? I won't give you the answer - you have to watch for yourselves - but I will tell you that the answer involves a cameo by Ice-T.