DVD
REVIEW: Kickin It Old Skool
08/27/07
Alright all you 30 something,
put on your head bands and leg warmers, grab your walkman
and mixed tape and lets go back to a funkier time, when
Atari was fresh and if you couldn’t break dance you were
wack. This movie will serve up a heaping platter of so much
nostalgia, corny humor and silly plot lines, that you’ll be
left with a belly ache. Its typical Jamie Kennedy, so watch
any of his comedies (Malibu’s Most Wanted, The Mask 2),and
you’ll pretty much know what to expect. Its has its funny
moments, but the movie itself is as corny and cheesy as the
eighties were.
The movie, is about Justin (Jamie Kennedy) a twelve year old
boy who leads up a group of break dancers called the Funky
Fresh Boyz. He is at the peak of popularity being one of the
best break dancers in his school. He even has the affection
of the girl he’s in love with, even though his much richer
nemesis is making a play for her and competes with him in
break dancing. He is the better man and has the girl. At the
talent show he battles his nemesis in a break dancing
competition and after seeing his enemy give the girl he
loves an expensive gift he decides to beat him at all cost
and impress his girl. He dances circles around his enemy
until he tries a difficult and dangerous move to show he’s
the best. His overconfidence makes him miscalculate a back
flip and knocks him out, and even though he’s lucky his neck
is not broken, he lands in a coma that spans twenty years.
All their money spent on medical bills, his parents are
severely in debt and can no longer afford to pay for his
life support, the decision is made to pull the plug. At the
very moment, a janitor walks by with funky 80’s music coming
from his radio, and he finally opens his eyes and attempts
to dance. Of course he only ends up on the floor, his body
atrophied from the years in a coma , but his parents realize
their son is alive, and rejoice, then take him home.
He is faced with a world he no longer recognizes, technology
he doesn’t understand and while everybody has grown up, he
is mentally still a child and trapped in the time he
remembers. He realizes the girl he loved is now engaged to
his childhood nemesis and hasn’t changed a bit, still being
every bit the jerk he was at twelve. He also hosts a dance
contest that promises the winner $100,000.00 and a year
contract at the show. Seeing this as his opportunity to get
his parents out of the financial problems, he caused them ,
and to win back the girl he lost, he gets the now middle
aged funky fresh boyz together again to enter and attempt to
win the contest and his life back. Now he’ll try to make the
80’s break dancing cool again in an era of gansta rap, hip
hop and krumping. Can he kick it old school and reclaim
everything he lost?
This is a very light silly little flick, something you
should only watch if you can tolerate a little corny humor,
and if your an 80’s buff. The dancing is also quite
exceptional, and the relationship between the adult Funky
Fresh Boyz is quite funny and sweet. The movie has its funny
moments, depending of course on your sense of humor, but I
did find it amusing in sort of a sweet way. Its also tinged
with a little sadness, watching what age and time can do to
a person, and how things have changed since the 80’s. Having
grown up in that time myself it was sad to see how much
thing have changed and how much innocence has been lost in
the past two decades. This is a great rainy afternoon movie
, when you want to watch a movie where you don’t want to
think too much, just be entertained and reminisce about a
more colorful decade. So Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto, go kick
it old school style.
VIDEO:
Widescreen
AUDIO:
English 5.1
Dolby Surround
Subtitles English/Spanish
BONUS FEATURES:
Delete Scenes Twelve
deleted scenes
Yogurt Shoppe
Lemonade Stand
Bobbies at the Mall
Why isn’t my Mic Working?
Club Scene
After the Club
Greasy Gina
Jen & Justin Talk About Greasy Gina
Dance Video Game Home Edition
The Internet
Drive Thru
Justin BBQ’s His Clothes
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Review By Helen
helen@smartcine.com
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