KICKIN' IT OLD SKOOL: Maybe It Should Have Stayed in A Coma
 Do not rent this film if you are a government employee, particularly if you work at the DMV. But for the rest of us who can appreciate the occasional stupid joke in a stupid film, KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL will provide more than a few belly laughs.
There may be some of you out there too young to remember that time before there was an Internet, when you actually had to go to a video store to get porn. Not that I ever did, of course. But people tell me that to keep anyone from seeing what they were renting, they’d cover Boudoir Ba
This came to mind when considering KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL. If I were renting this DVD today, I’d probably cover it with porn. Frankly, I’d prefer people see me with Lickin’ It Old Skool rather than a stupid film about break dancing that was released just four months ago. Break dancing, do you believe it? In 2007? I’m here to tell you I was partially wrong. Oh this movie is stupid, all right. But it is funny stupid, a guilty pleasure. Please don’t tell anyone.
Twelve-year-old Justin Schumacher (Alexander Calvert) leads a break dance group called the Funky Fresh Boyz. He has a crush on classmate Jennifer Stone and competition (in both break dancing and matters of the heart) from an obnoxious Kip Unger. To assure victory, Justin does a difficult move and back flip, but misses the stage. He winds up in a coma. But don’t worry; this is a comedy.
Twenty years later, Justin (now played
“Is that Hector,” Justin wonders when he first sees his formerly slender friend.
“Or someone who ate Hector,” Darnell replies.
Bringing Justin up to date on the two decades he missed yields some funny moments. For example, when Darnell explains current usage for a word popularized
The dance contestants are acrobatic, but there’s something missing in the contest sequence. The deleted scene extras are nothing special. Still, I laughed. Again, I caution you, if you have a sophisticated sense of humor, if you would actually rent a Bergman film, KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL is definitely not your cup of tea. But there are laughs here for the rest of us.
Does Justin win the dance contest and save his parents’ home? Does he win back Jennifer’s love? Does Kip get his just reward? Are you kidding? Stupid movies don’t have trick endings.
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