Kickin' It Old Skool (2007): Dir: Harvey Glazer / Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, David Hasselhoff, Christopher McDonald: Idiotic showcase plays as a reminder of 1980's dance and if this is to be a representative of that era then it is best that this film be kicked to the curb. Jamie Kennedy awakens from a 20 year coma and rounds up his friends to enter a dance competition. Setup is appealing before travelling that familiar ground that ends in a dance competition. Director Harvey Glazer has fun with the 1980's theme with flashy production, which amounts to the best aspect of this disappointing farce. Kennedy is travelling predictable ground following clichés faithfully. This is tailor made for his physical antics but offers no sympathy for a character who is basically too lazy to get a real job. Maria Menounos plays the typical high school crush turned dance instructor. She will, of course, fall for him because that is her only real function here. Michael Rosenbaum plays the typical high school bully turn dance show host. He will lose because he serves no other function and nobody gives a crap. David Hasselhoff makes an appearance because he seems to represent all things 1980's. Nice 1980's dance references may bring viewers that remember the period into a time warp the film is so juvenile that perhaps viewers should be kickin' the film. Score: 4 / 10

When people make movies as bad as this, do they attend their premieres? I really wanna know. How do they show their faces? I guess "comedies" like KICKIN' IT OLD SCHOOL must appeal to some kind of illiterate unschooled trailer-trash drool-toothed dipsticks, otherwise somebody fellated some major pole to get this greenlighted.Was it the minimal "draw" of comedians Jamie Kennedy and Bobby Lee (both naturally funny guys, but atrocious in this movie)? Was it the anachronistic break dancing craze, a proved cash cow in the distant past? Was it that comet that passed near Earth and birthed a two-headed calf? The fish-out-of-water premise always has potential: Justin (Alexander Calvert), a hot young breakdancer in the 80s, lands on his head and goes into a coma. He wakes 20 years later (retaining his 14-year-old mentality, which explains why he is now Jamie Kennedy) and reunites his break dancing team from the old days - Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Bobby Lee and Aris Alvarado, losers all, who can't dance any more, let alone act. They enter a dance comp for some inane reason, but Justin's agenda is to show his ex-girl (Maria Menounos) he can still kick it, so she will leave her asshole boyfriend (Michael Rosenbaum) for him. It could have worked, had this movie hired an actual director, actual writers and actual actors.What irks about KICKIN' IT OLD SCHOOL is that, like many movies of its lowbrow ilk, stupidity and non-talent is lauded. It is not a bad thing that Our Heroes "win" the day, but that they win without any effort; they win when others are so clearly superior; they win by being the biggest retards on stage - and that is supposedly how you win. No, kids. It's not. Even this bad movie (and others like it) is not made by people who DON'T know what they're doing. Yet this movie tells us a competition can be won if you don't know what you're doing; it tells us that all those years of practice for the other competitors counts for nothing; it tells us you can be a virtuoso at a craft without going through the rigors of becoming a virtuoso. (Like those bogus exercise-machine ads that claim, "You don't even break a sweat!" Hey, great! No pain AND gain!) And that's entirely unacceptable.The funny thing about this movie (--there's something funny about this movie?) is that Bobby Lee's "Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto" bit looks hilarious in the trailers, in the film, like a Chinese burn. So too with the down-wid-it tongue-in-cheek title, all the failed gags, embarrassing plot points and mistimed bits. Nothing works outside of the thirty-second trailer.What almost became an Olympic sport in the 80s has been marginalized in the 2000s, but the people who still do it, do it extremely well. And that's the only redeeming factor in this movie - the dancing. Dated though it is stylistically, we appreciate the astounding expertise of the kids who can still jam, break, lock, snap, crackle and pop it.Unfortunately, expertise is something Jamie Kennedy and his crew of jackasses lack, so we know how it's going to end - yes, he wins the dance comp, gets the girl, and somewhere, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Gregory Hines are turning in their graves.--Review by Poffy The Cucumber (for Poffy's Movie Mania).

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.

i really enjoyed the movie. it was hilarious and at points in the movie you could also learn a lesson from it. and Jesse Brown is totally HOT!!!!!!i thought that the movie was awesome because it had a lot of parts to it where you felt like you could relate to it and it makes you wonder just how short life can be , and exactly how fast it can go by. but i liked the movie because it reminds me of my neighbors. there son loves to break dance and he enjoys doing it. will there be any sequels to kickin' it old skool or will you just keep people guessing on what might happen next?and if there are any sequels will any be made in Canada???