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Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 1  Rotten:39 Average Rating: 2.3/10
 
Consensus: Kickin’ It Old Skool is one big unfunny pop culture reference that doesn’t feature many laughs.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Synopsis: In KICKIN' IT OLD SKOOL, a 1980s-pop-culture factoid-infested comedy, Jamie Kennedy (SCREAM, SON OF THE MASK) stars as Justin Schumacher, a former break-dancing child prodigy, who wakes up 20 years after a disastrously daring dance move left him in a coma.  Justin quickly discovers that... In KICKIN' IT OLD SKOOL, a 1980s-pop-culture factoid-infested comedy, Jamie Kennedy (SCREAM, SON OF THE MASK) stars as Justin Schumacher, a former break-dancing child prodigy, who wakes up 20 years after a disastrously daring dance move left him in a coma.  Justin quickly discovers that his hospital bills have put his parents (played by perpetual character actors Debra Jo Rupp and Christopher McDonald) in a financial bind, and he is determined to help them out by getting his old dancing team, the Funky Fresh Boys, together and enter a $100,000 dance contest at the local mall.  In between brushing up on his break-dancing and adapting to the technological advances and evolved fashions that surround him, Justin tries to rekindle what he had with his teenage sweetheart, Jenny (Maria Menounos), but unfortunately she is engaged to his childhood arch-nemesis, Kip (Michael Rosenbaum).  The pressure is on for Justin to either choose to make up for lost time--win Jen's heart and the dance contest--or accept adulthood and move on. With cult favorites such as the SCREAM trilogy and THE JAMIE KENNEDY EXPERIMENT lodged firmly in their memories, fans of Kennedy will surely appreciate this goofy and slapstick-ridden film, which contains some serious undertones.  Unfortunately, the sentiment is often lost in the painfully awkward sequences of the out-of-shape Funky Fresh Boys trying to reignite the agility of their youthful glory days.  When Kennedy tries to convey Justin's bleary-eyed and constant deer-in-headlights dilemma as a recovering coma patient, at times he comes across as dopey and annoying, and undermines any talent that he possesses.  However, the film does offer some great dance performances and of course, a catchy ‘80s soundtrack. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Christopher McDonald, Miguel A. Nunez, Vivica A. Fox, Alan Ruck

Director: Harvey Glazer
Screenwriter: Trace Slobotkin, Josh Siegal, Dylan Morgan
Producer: Bob Yari, Jamie Kennedy, Phillip Glasser, John Hermansen
Composer: James L. Venable, Richard Glasser

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 8, 2009

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • NTSC
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 2.35
  • Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes
  • Trailers - 1. Previews: Forced Trailers
  • 2. Theatrical Trailer

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0.5/4

I like Kennedy but he doesn't make it easy for me

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02/20/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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Were the filmmakers really so wedded to every scene they couldn't find 15 minutes to cut? Besides, shouldn't we as a culture being moving on to depleting the comic potential of '90s nostalgia by now?

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12/03/07
Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club
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1/5

while Jamie Kennedy's character of Justin is supposed to be an 11-year-old in a 30-year-old's body, it seems he has suffered irreparable brain damage in his coma

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09/09/07
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
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2/5

If you were alive and watching TV during this decade, you'll find something to give you a smirk

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08/06/07
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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0.5/5

There may be a lot of comedy potential in someone from the '80s waking up in the new millennium, but the writers of Kickin' It Old Skool are fairly oblivious to it.

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07/14/07
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies
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1.5/5

Kickin' It Old Skool aspires to be Big with break dancing, but it falls flat on its spinning head. Even the break dancing gets tired fast, making the film even more tedious to get through.

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06/22/07
Stax
IGN Movies
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.5/4

Unfunny, unlikeable and unnecessary, "Kickin' It Old Skool" is one of the lamest so-called comedies to limp on to the screen in years.

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06/10/07
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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1/4

After cringing through Son of the Mask in 2005, I was convinced that trying to be funny could not get any worse for Jamie Kennedy. ... I was wrong that things couldn't get worse.

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05/15/07
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News
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2/5

The funniest thing about Kickin' It Old Skool, yet another in a long line of not particularly funny Kennedy movies, is how little we actually have advanced since the '80s.

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05/09/07
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
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1/5

...a little of [Jamie Kennedy] goes a long way; a lot goes nowhere.

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05/07/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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0/5

The writers make sure to fill their script with only the most obvious jokes and cultural references so that their star’s particular comedic talents will shine brightest and he can work his magic without the risk of causing any audience members to think.

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05/07/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
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D-

Kickin' It Old Skool equates making incalculable 80s pop culture references with joke telling.

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05/06/07
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
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1/6

Although technically a coming-of-age film, Kickin' It is, in every way, regressive.

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05/05/07
Jane Borden
Time Out New York
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You might think that after Kennedy proved capable of emptying every theater in the civilized world with his last two vehicles someone would have said, 'Enough!' But no.

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05/02/07
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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Despite some legitimately entertaining dance sequences, no amount of parachute pants can disguise the fact that Kickin' is a very stupid movie, with many more failed jokes than successful ones.

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04/30/07
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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2/4

Adults old enough to appreciate the choice electro-boogaloo soundtrack and get the 'Mr. Roboto' jokes will doubtless find the rest of it painfully dumb.

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04/30/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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1/4

Kennedy is a negligible performer, a hopeless dancer, and his romantic connection to the lovely Menounos is preposterous even by the movie's absurd standards.

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04/30/07
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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0.5/4

Laugh proof and choreographically blah.

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04/30/07
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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0/4

A pathetically unfunny comedy that should have been shipped straight to video, if not recycled as guitar picks.

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04/30/07
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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0.5/4

As appealing as acid-washed jeans.

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04/30/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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