Having essentially grown up and gained my adoration for film in the 80's and early 90's, sooo many of these films were my bread and butter and I had no idea they had the same studio let alone such an interesting and ridiculous back-story. The only issue I had with this documentary was actually that I'm not sure it covered enough ground and I would have liked to have seen more significant interviews from the stars that these guys made and vice versa. Because despite how bad these movies were or tried to be where would the B Movie genre be without them let alone the 80's films in general. I think the story behind the "GoGo Boys" Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus is so interesting because ultimately they were passionate but had zero experience and got way ahead of themselves and played with fire and ultimately for lucky for a very long time until they weren't lucky anymore. Still its absolutely astonishing to see how many films they made and the similarities with those films.Very very very few of the movies mentioned in the documentary could ever be described as "good" and yet anyone who grew up in this era or loved movies will agree that so many of them are "legendary" in the minds of the fans. One of my favourite Stallone movies "Over The Top", one of my favourite "bad" movies "Masters of The Universe", and one of my favourite guilty pleasure film franchises "Death Wish." They gave us silly bad-ass heroes like Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson and unashamedly used exploitation to sell their early films and yet they kept making money until they couldn't anymore. I was ecstatic when I heard about this documentary because I love these kinds of Hollywood stories but interviews with the brothers would have been very good (both were asked and refused apparently) Chuck Norris interviews would have been great, talking to some of the bigger legendary stars that Canon made or kept going. I felt like this was a pretty surface look at Canon when there was so much here to cover but really interesting nonetheless just perhaps a little too simple. 7/10

Rewind the tape and slap it on. This is pure nostalgia-fest for those of us of a generation. I'm sure if IMDb was around back then, we'd all have been writing up reviews slamming their films and chutzpah at throwing at us much of the dross they did.Yet, many of us actually loved a lot of their old fare. The action movies at a certain age were superb fun and ridiculously good. They might have been low budget put together with the script last in line, but they still were entertaining. It kind of was the last true B-Movie era.In the UK, video was king for a number of years, and nobody exploited that market better than Cannon. I lapped up many of their films. It's wonderful to see in this documentary all the old names and how lovingly they look back, in humour as much as all else. Its terrific.Okay, the films were practically all garbage, and I've probably grown up to be too much of a film snob now to sit back and enjoy going through their movies again. However, I will be revisiting some of their old fare in one way or another, and this film reminded me of what a wonderfully silly time the video days in their heyday truly were.Thanks Cannon, from a guy who owes you a great deal.

A one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever.Anyone who love cult or genre films knows Cannon. They were huge, especially in the 1980s, and made some of the finest action films out there. As this documentary shows, they were not afraid to use Chuck Norris to his fullest potential.I absolutely love all the behind-the-scenes tidbits on this. We see that Cannon never really knew what they were doing, but just kept going over the top and got lucky. The connection such figures as Michael Milliken is interesting, and it makes one wonder if some shady business was going down (apparently the SEC thought so).

'ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Documentary flick, about the infamous B-movie making cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus; and their studio Cannon Films. It was written and directed by Mark Hartley; who also helmed such other B- movie documentary flicks as 'NOT QUITE Hollywood: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION!' and 'MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED!'. The film features interviews with several different actors, and former associates of theirs; including Dolph Lundgren, Michael Dudikoff, Franco Nero, Robert Forster, Richard Chamberlain, Molly Ringwald, Bo Derek, Olivia D'Abo, Lucinda Dickey, Elliot Gould, Alex Winter, Franco Zeffirelli and Tobe Hooper. It's a very informative, and extremely entertaining, documentary flick.The film explores how two movie obsessed Israeli cousins (Golan and Globus) followed their dreams; and moved to America, to make movies. They started Cannon Films; which was notorious (in the 80s) for making really low-budget B-movie exploitation flicks. Most of them contained lots of explicit sex, nudity and violence. Most of them were also really bad movies, and Box Office failures. They did have a few hits, on occasion though, and some (a few) were pretty good movies too. The cousins were also infamous for being really cheap, somewhat abusive and extremely prolific. I grew up on so many Golan and Globus produced movies; seeing their logo now, is extremely nostalgic for me. They discovered action stars like Jean Claude Van-Damme (one of my favorite actors as a kid) and Michael Dudikoff; they also made several action vehicles, for the likes of Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson. I watched most of them, and I loved them as a kid. So I really enjoyed this movie. I especially liked learning how they were made; and hearing several comical stories, about the process, from many actors (and other filmmakers) involved. Being a movie lover myself, I can definitely relate to Golan and Globus's passion, and obsession for filmmaking. It's a really fun movie to watch!Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/41q3ZuWGdEE