Kickin' It Old Skool
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| Kickin' It Old Skool | |
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 Promotional poster for Kickin' It Old Skool |
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| Directed by | Harvey Glazer |
| Written by | Trace Slobotkin Josh Siegal Dylan Morgan |
| Starring | Jamie Kennedy Bobby Lee Miguel A. Núñez Jr. Maria Menounos Michael Rosenbaum Vivica A. Fox |
| Music by | James L. Venable |
| Cinematography | Robert M. Stevens |
| Editing by | Sandy S. Solowitz |
| Distributed by | Yari Film Group |
| Release date(s) | April 27, 2007 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20-25 Million |
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Kickin' It Old Skool is an American comedy film directed by Harvey Glazer and written by Trace Slobotkin. The cast includes Jamie Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, and Vivica A. Fox. This movie was released on April 27, 2007 and grossed $2.49 million in its opening weekend. The movie is about a young breakdancer who hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006 (without knowing everything has gone updated throughout the years during his coma), he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents.
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[edit] Plot
In 1986, 12 year old Justin and his breakdancing group: The Funky Fresh Boys, are ready for the 1986 annual talent show. Justin and the Funky Fresh Boys start the contest, and when Justin prepares to do a dangerous and untested move, he flips of stage and falls into a concusion.
Justin wakes up twenty years later, finding himselfy suddenly 30 years old, his parents in bankrupt from over due life support paments, and the girl he loves engaged with the same bully he was dancing against when he fell into his concusion. Now, that same bully host a dance contest broadcast on national television, and the grand prize is $100,000...more than enough to pay back his parents for the 20 years worth of life support they paid.
Justin has no choice but to bring back together the Boys and enter the contest in a deperate attempt to grow up and save his parents house from being taken away.
In the end, the Boys beat the Ice Cole Crew and Justin gets married to the girl of his dreams.
[edit] Characters
- Jamie Kennedy as Justin Schumacher
- Maria Menounos as Jennifer
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Darnell Jackson
- Michael Rosenbaum as Kip
- Christopher McDonald as Marty Schumacher
- Debra Jo Rupp as Sylvia Schumacher
- Bobby Lee as Aki
- Aris Alvarado as Hector
- Alan Ruck as Dr. Fry
- Jesse "Casper" Brown as Cole
- David Hasselhoff as Himself/Michael Knight (cameo appearance)
- Vivica A. Fox as Darnell's wife
[edit] Reception
The reviews were mostly negative. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a rotten 3%. The New York Post gave this movie a 0 out of 5.
[edit] Trivia
- Justin mentions Diff'rent Strokes and recites "The World don't move to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you might not be right for some, cause it takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world".
- Kip shouts onstage "You're all sluts! How many of you people even know you're alive?" This is a reference to Oliver Stone's movie The Doors as the Jim Morrison character shouts, "You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves...How many of you people know you're alive?".
- This film has a link to the 1984 movie Breakin', from which two cast members were involved: Christopher McDonald playing the father and Shabba Doo as the dance consultant for the movie.
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