Jamie Kennedy plays a fish out of water, a break dancing white guy in modern day. Kickin' It Old Skool casts Kennedy as a comatose breakdancer who wakes up and tries to bring back the beat. The white guy in an urban world may be familiar territory for Kennedy, who also played rapper B-Rad in Malibu's Most Wanted.
Jamie Kennedy Breaks for Kickin' It Old Skool
"I figured like I made Malibu's and my fans really liked it, so I thought what else can I do that was in that world," said Kenneddy. "So I decided to make a breakdancing movie because I thought that would be like a good bookend. Like the hip hop world of Jamie Kennedy in Malibu's, breakdancing. Then I'll go into my '40s and do something else."
A child of the '80s, Kennedy grew up with great breakdancing movies. "[I've seen] Breakin' at least 12 [times]. Breakin' 2, it's hard to watch Boogaloo. They do that whole musical number in the beginning and they're all happy. I mean, they got legwarmers. I mean, I have the lime green legwarmers. I don't have them on now, but they all had legwarmers and that little Mexican kid is all happy. He's too happy. But my movies were Breakin', Wild Style, Krush Groove, Beat Street. Beat Street is hardcore."
Kennedy spent two years coming up with wild characters on The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, but having one sustain an entire movie is a bigger challenge. "This one's not so much a character as a concept. I believe in two types of movies. Well, every movie should have a great story but you can get away with three types of movies, well, four types. Events, like let's say Spider-Man. Concepts, let's say like Blades of Glory. Characters, like Austin Powers or just like amazing stories. Just like a great story that draws you in. This to me was a great concept of I could see this being funny. Something for you in the '80s and something for a little kid to watch now. It wasn't like B-Rad where B-Rad was the whole character and we had to make a movie around him. This is more like the movie and then I made the character."
Kickin' It Old Skool
Kickin' It Old Skool
Kickin' It Old Skool
The '80s continue to provide fertile ground for referential comedies. It seems they haven't referred to every '80s trend yet. "Because it's the last great decade of recognition. What can you remember from the '90s except Nirvana and Pearl Jam, I mean, long hair and grunge and Saved by the Bell. Seriously, what can you pull from there? You can pull from the '80s. You've got amazing John Hughes movies, okay. You've got all those great bands and remember how many English bands came over, new wave and punk, from Cyndi Lauper to Lou Albano to MTV to Pop Rocks and Coke to roller skating, all that stuff. The fashion. And then you had crack and it was exciting with crack. It added to it."
Kickin' It Old Skool is now playing.
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