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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo poster
Directed by
Sam Firstenberg
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 99 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This sequel follows a group of breakdancers as they fight to save a community center from being demolished. The story is driven by dance competitions and youthful rebellion.

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What happens

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is a 1984 American breakdancing musical film directed by Sam Firstenberg that is a sequel to Breakin', released seven months earlier the same year by the same producers, The Cannon Group. In markets where the earlier film was titled Breakdance, the sequel was released as Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo. Another sequel, Rappin' (also known as Breakdance 3), was produced but with an unconnected plot and different lead characters; only Ice-T appears in all three films. The subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" has entered the popular-culture lexicon as a snowclone nickname to denote an archetypal sequel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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