Ordinarily I wouldn’t report to you about something from the people who brought you You Got Served even though I’m told that it’s a so bad it’s good kind of movie but this is just too weird to pass up and I’m even a little interested. One of my all-time favorite production companies, Cannon, is best known for Chuck Norris and Death Wish sequels but what you probably never think about is that Cannon, among all the empty bullet casings and dead Russians, kicked out a pair of 80’s pop cultural gems. I’m talking, of course, about the Breakin’ flicks, both produced in the same year. Then once Golan Globus broke up, each party produced a fucking Lambada movie. So seedy song and dance flicks are nothing new to the camp camp. You know?
I don’t know what’s going on in the genres right now but horror can’t seem to stop with all the singing and there’s a whole subset of these shitty dance movies. However, rather than kick out another fish out of water, white girl learns to dance movie, director Chris Stokes is pushing things a bit and taking the basic premise of another seminal 80’s artifact, Footloose, and placing it in 2015 New York City where the fine art of self expression through dance is outlawed and those who live dangerously take part in the gladiatorial scene of “battle dancing”.That is, according to Variety.
They’re calling it Boogie Town.
Could this be any weirder? The answer is no. Chances are it’ll look just like Step Up or You Got Served but the mere fact that they’re trying to wrap something genre-related around your standard dance flick is something to be talked about.
Boogie Town.
December 6, 2008 4:08 pm
Sounds to me like you take You Got Served, mix it with Band of the Hand (that’s the movie about the students who learn the dancing martial art Capoeira) and mix in a spice of SolarBabies” and I think we have a smash hit. I see John Lithgo with a crappy southern accent and a wardrobe Cyberpunks wouldn’t wear. Eat your heart out Gary Oldman