What is an Elctric Boogaloo?
This has been bothering me for sometime, what is an electric boogaloo, i imagine something that would cause seizures...
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"Electric Boogaloo"
Since the release of the film, the unusual subtitle "Electric Boogaloo," a reference to a funk-oriented dance style from the 1970s, has become a running joke concerning movie sequels, with commentators often attaching it as a subtitle for any facetious follow up to a popular movie (e.g. Gladiator 2: Electric Boogaloo) or, in fact, to any sort of sequel.
its similar to "crappy sequel of an already crappy movie"
shareive never heard any critic use that term befor maybe just you old people use it.
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You mean people who are old enough to be concerned with things like spelling, grammar and punctuation? You could be right.
More to the point the term exists as more of a movie-geek internet joke than as a term used by mainstream movie critics.
Oh, come on. It was a staple joke on MST3K.
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In addition to this, "Takes Manhattan", after one of the popular Muppets movies has also been used similarly.
Aliens Take Manhattan, etc. in order to express displeasure with the Hollywood tendency to franchise a movie to death.
I've also heard "Electric *beep* used as a racially disparaging epithet.
Well, Jason Voorhees of the Friday 13th movies did indeed take Manhattan (After a long, crappy boat ride). I just wish one of the other sequels had gone the Electric Boogaloo route.
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