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A young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend... Read allA young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.A young breakdancer hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.
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Did you know
- TriviaAlan Ruck plays a character named Dr. Fry. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Alan Ruck played a character named Cameron Frye. Dr. Fry also mentions that he is still paying off the Ferrari!
- GoofsDuring the opening credits, which take place on April 20 1986, there is a shot of the legs of a Transformer toy named B'boom; however, B'boom was a part of the Beast Wars toy line and was not released until 1997.
- Alternate versionsThe USA DVD includes 30 minutes of deleted scenes including a scene withMichelle Trachtenberg that was cut from the final cut.
- ConnectionsEdited into Kickin' It Old Skool: Deleted Scenes (2007)
- SoundtracksBreakdance Electric Boogie
Written by Cheryl Lorraine Cook, Spoonie Gee (as Gabriel M. Jackson), Jerry Lordan (as Jeremiah Lordan) and Joey Robinson (as Joseph Roy Robinson, Jr.)
Performed by West Street Mob (as West Street MOB)
Courtesy of The Robinson Music Group
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Ahead of its time ironically.
This is a movie that is extremely self aware of what it is going for, I would compare it to one of the movies I love ¨Cabin in the Woods¨ this movie is completely aware of all the comedy clichés in comedy movies of this kind, so they don't avoid them but intentionally include them and make fun of them, just with that this should be an extremely successful film, but it isn't.
The real failure of the film, it's the lack of star power, of a very handsome lead, Jamie Kennedy is fine but not enough for people to socially accept him as a lead, it has the wit that "21 Jump Street" has, minus Channing Tatum, there are some awkwardly fun scenes that never push it far enough to become gross, the movie knows the limits of what it's funny and what is gross, which is also another amazing thing the script had.
Other than that it doesn't takes itself too seriously, it seems like a movie in which the crew and actors could have fun, I would of really though this movie was done in the 90's which is another good point for the D.O.P. and perhaps a bad point for marketing.
All in all, it is one of the few solid comedies around the last decade, unfortunately the lack of star power, the out of date visuals, and the script being too smart for it's own good, it might be a movie to watch in 10 years, it came out too soon.
The real failure of the film, it's the lack of star power, of a very handsome lead, Jamie Kennedy is fine but not enough for people to socially accept him as a lead, it has the wit that "21 Jump Street" has, minus Channing Tatum, there are some awkwardly fun scenes that never push it far enough to become gross, the movie knows the limits of what it's funny and what is gross, which is also another amazing thing the script had.
Other than that it doesn't takes itself too seriously, it seems like a movie in which the crew and actors could have fun, I would of really though this movie was done in the 90's which is another good point for the D.O.P. and perhaps a bad point for marketing.
All in all, it is one of the few solid comedies around the last decade, unfortunately the lack of star power, the out of date visuals, and the script being too smart for it's own good, it might be a movie to watch in 10 years, it came out too soon.
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- megaruda
- Oct 27, 2013
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- Also known as
- Kicking It Old School
- Filming locations
- Tsawwassen, Delta, British Columbia, Canada(mall scenes)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,502,604
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,484,624
- Apr 29, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $4,692,108
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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