Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Body Rock (1984), 5-

PG-13 | 1h 33min | Drama , Music , Musical | 28 September 1984
Chilly is just a guy from the streets with a talent for break-dancing. When his wicked moves catch the eye of an industry pro, Chilly finds his dreams of fame and fortune coming true, for better or for worse.
Director: Marcelo Epstein
Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Vicki Frederick, Cameron Dye.
Joanne DiVito ... choreographer
Susan Scanlan ... choreographer

Watched online, very poor, fuzzy print.

17 songs in the Soundtracks, many just in the score.

5th of 55+ films for LL.

Rated 3.5 by 360+ IMDb voters.

It's hard to know how much of the film's failure is the horrible print, but this got very close to a 4.

The opening had graffiti artists dancing with the spray cans, on the way to a meeting before doing a large mural on a building. That's the last we saw of their artistic endeavors. The rest of the film is about break dancing, trying to take it to a professional level.

The synopsis makes it sound as though LL was one of the good dancers. We see a fairly lengthy segment where his various friends teach him to dance. His primary skill is promotion, and he promotes himself a job in a club, and takes it without his crew because he's supposed to bring them on board later. That doesn't happen, and they get a gig elsewhere, so he quits his job to join them.

I think he romances more than 1 girl, but I don't really remember, and it's hard to be sure with the bad print. Although the 2nd & 4th billed are female, I don't remember female characters playing characters who move the story along. The film ends with LL going off with 1 girl in a seemingly romantic manner.

One IMDb reviewer panned this in part because the music wasn't hip-hop, but was techno-pop. Whatever.

New World Pictures, dir. Epstein; 5-