This week’s bad movie is so famous that people refer to its title even if they haven’t actually seen the movie. It’s “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo”! There were some technical difficulties that kept the column from seeing the light of the Internet until just moments ago, but it’s at Film.com now, in all its splendor.
“if a hundred people came lurching convulsively toward me on a city street, I would make electric boogaloo in my pants” made me giggle like a schoolgirl. Also, the names of the “other famous breakdancers”. Hilarious!
“Eric’s Bad Movies” has become the bright spot in my week.
Ah, so this is the fabled source of the “Electric Boogaloo” that Eric is so fond of attaching to various sequels. In a similar vein, my friends and I used to use “Cruise Control” for bad sequels. It works for all kinds of things: Superman 2: Cruise Control; Star Wars: Episode II: Cruise Control; and so on.
Also, one of my former roommates had both Breakin’ movies. I’m glad I never let him talk me into watching them.
I always attach “with a Vengeance” to movie sequels. But I may have to start using “Cruise Control”. It has a nice ring to it.
I’m going to make a movie called “Cruise Control II: With a Vengeance”
I humbly submit “Cruise Control II: Electric Boogaloo with a Vengeance”
I believe the third movie should be titled “Breakin’ 3: Zabbadoo Zabbadee!”
Much to my own embarrassment, I actually liked this movie when it first came out. My only excuse was I was seven years old, and the average seven-year-old is incapable of recognizing a bad movie when they see one (which explains the popularity of, among other things, High School Musical).
I’ve always liked “The Wrath of x” for an all-purpose sequel title. “Breakin’ II: The Wrath of Boogaloo Shrimp” would have been a movie worth seeing.
Then I guess the summum bonum would be “Cruise Control: The Wrath of Electric Boogaloo with a Vengeance.”
I hear that Speed 2: Cruise Control (which is where I’m guessing Jonathon got his sequel title from) is really, really bad. 😀