At a talent show in 1986, young Justin Schumacher suffers a head injury and slips into a coma. Twenty years later, Justin awakes with the mindset and experience of a 12-year-old. He decides to reunite the members of his former dance team and revive their short-lived careers, to win a local talent competition and help his parents save their house.....When Jamie Kennedy was in the Scream series, he was one of the stand out characters in the franchise, and the studios must have sat up and took notice of a taken the had when he was acting under another writer.TV shows aside, and being mistaken for Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy's film career hasn't really been anything other than mundane, and he must have signed a multi picture deal with a company, because this looks and feels like it was rushed and released to end said contract.But it's a neat concept, mixing Hard To Kill with The Wedding Singer, but the eighties references are not there, and when they are, it's the predictable, popular ones that you can see coming a mile off, so they are not nostalgic, just eye-rollingly obvious.Kennedy is okay, but he has the same facial expression throughout the film, and the rest if his entourage are your atypical stereotypes you would expect to see in a film like this, but not as secondary characters.....lazy writing.And it's at least 20 minutes too long.So when all else fails in the writing department, always have a plethora of vomit, cake, and urine gags at hand, and include an extended dance off finale for good measure.With all good intentions, it's a bit rubbish.

As a young boy, Justin (Alexander Calvert) felt down hard on the floor trying to do some fancy break dancing for a talent show at school. Twenty years has passed, Justin (Jamie Kennedy) woke up from his coma. Although he still has the mind of a twelve year old trapped in a 32 year old body. He finds out that his parents (Christopher McDonald and Debra Jo Rapp) might lose their home, after trying to pay off Justin's medical bills. He decides to get back his old dance crew (Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., Bobby Lee and Avis Alvarado) to help him win back his parents house. Justin discovers that his long time crush (Maria Menounos) is marring the bully (Michael Rosenbaum), he truly hated. But Justn hasn't realized yet that music has changed and a whole new generation of fancy foot-steppers are far superior. Since he missed two decades, it is time to grow up... a little.Directed by Harv Glazer (Bitten) made an silly comedy that has some goofy laughs. Kennedy offers more charm that he did in "Malibu's Most Wanted". But the differences between the two, his early starring role had a much slicker look. It will certainly remind you of the film "Big" and other break dancing movies of the 1980's. The movie has a cool retro 80's soundtrack and some of the dance moves are good. "Kickin It Old Skool" is not a great comedy but it's not boring either and acting or the quality of the feature looks truly average. But it does offers some laughs and probably fans of Kennedy will enjoy this one best. Some amusing cameos as well. Super 35. (*** 1/2 out of *****).

I generally like Jamie Kennedy and thought Malibu's Most Wanted was pretty funny. But holy crap, this movie was a pile of ****.They had a great premise to build on and they blew it. Could have had cameos all over the place, Turbo and Ozone from Breakin', Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash, etc etc.Instead, they put in a bunch of Busch league dancers who were flat out annoying, and jokes written with zero creativity. It reminds me of another turd that came out recently, Drillbit Taylor.. Annoying characters, a script that wouldn't pass a 5th grade Creative Writing paper, with a few people that *could* have been funny (and are in other movies).At minimum it should have been funny and it should have had some ridiculously good breakers and it failed miserably on both counts.I'm being kind by giving it 4/10.

A fantastic movie for any child of the 80s! That's really all you need to know. If you grew up in the 80s, collected garbage pail kids, carried cardboard and a ghetto blaster, sang we are the world, and watched different strokes and knight rider, then gather up some friends who share your history, and watch this movie as a celebration of our childhood. The soundtrack was great, the acting tolerable, and the script was creative. The b-boying was alright. There's a little antagonistic dude that does a great job, the rest is OK, and is actually pretty realistic depicting the differences between the style of the 80s and todays breaking. it's pure fun and entertainment. expect more, and you might be disappointed. expect a montage of the best of your childhood,and you'll have a great time.