FlashCallahan At a talent show in 1986, young Justin Schumacher suffers a head injury and slips into a coma. Twenty years later, Justin awakes with the mindset and experience of a 12-year-old. He decides to reunite the members of his former dance team and revive their short-lived careers, to win a local talent competition and help his parents save their house.....When Jamie Kennedy was in the Scream series, he was one of the stand out characters in the franchise, and the studios must have sat up and took notice of a taken the had when he was acting under another writer.TV shows aside, and being mistaken for Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy's film career hasn't really been anything other than mundane, and he must have signed a multi picture deal with a company, because this looks and feels like it was rushed and released to end said contract.But it's a neat concept, mixing Hard To Kill with The Wedding Singer, but the eighties references are not there, and when they are, it's the predictable, popular ones that you can see coming a mile off, so they are not nostalgic, just eye-rollingly obvious.Kennedy is okay, but he has the same facial expression throughout the film, and the rest if his entourage are your atypical stereotypes you would expect to see in a film like this, but not as secondary characters.....lazy writing.And it's at least 20 minutes too long.So when all else fails in the writing department, always have a plethora of vomit, cake, and urine gags at hand, and include an extended dance off finale for good measure.With all good intentions, it's a bit rubbish.

bklatsky In a moment of self-vindication, Jamie Kennedy's love interest tells him that the most beautiful part about him is that he doesn't try to act like an adult. Therein lies the fault of Kickin' It Old School, its assumption that there is something virtuous in acting like a 13 year old, and an immature one at that, especially when it's writers are thirty something, and throwing their best material into the mix. To that end, Jamie Kennedy pulls out every trick in the book including fat jokes, gay jokes, racial slurs, bathroom humor, sex jokes, violence, Jewish jokes, retard jokes, a barrage of un-funny parodies of 80's wardrobe, dated colloquialisms, and over-played and un-original jokes resulting from a 20 year coma in a tragic attempt to mix back to the future, you got served, and some Adam Sandler movie. The abundant product placements and celebrity cameos makes it clear that Kennedy tried as hard to fund this film as he did to make it funny, calling in every favor and taking every opportunity to give a product unnecessary and often distracting camera time. For a film with so much corporate backing, one might expect camera and lighting work that was at least decent enough not to detract from an already lacking project. Luckily, the guest stars in the film didn't have much reputation to loose, since the product of their efforts is nothing short of a cataclysmic failure. Somewhere between a fat joke and a TiVo plug, there's an uninteresting and hackneyed plot about a desperate loser who has to do something big to win something back, imagine Happy Gilmore but with humor replaced with break dancing. This is what you'll get from Kennedy's Kickin' it Old School which features Kennedy as an adolescent boy in a 30-year-olds body who has just woken up from a 20 year coma to find out that the world has changed and has wholly passed him by. He must reunite his dance team and win a break dancing competition to pay off expensive medical bills and save his house, win the girl back from his evil nemesis, etc. etc. Perhaps Kennedy lost me when he started rubbing his fat best friends breasts, thankfully covered in a bra, but it seems that he often forgets which subplot he's working with, or rather what the main plot is altogether. If Kennedy seems convincing as a man with a 13-year-old mind, which he does not, it may be due to the fact that his humor never quite developed past a pubescent mentality. Maria Menunos seems oddly overwhelmed by a role that really should have been easy to pass off just on good looks. Kennedy himself is erratic, immature, and awkward with unkempt hair that parallels the movies and Kennedys lost sense of direction. Miguel Nunez Jr. revives the awkwardness that defeated Juana Man some years ago, a film with a plot and a performance about as disappointing as this one. Bobby Lee slips in and out of a stereotypical Asian parody that becomes MIT alum when he whips out his big vocabulary words, he is much more effective and funny in sketch comedy when he is no forced to extend his performance for more than five minutes. Michael Rosenbaum is refreshingly comedic in the light of his feeble co-stars. At one point in the film, Kennedy's character comments that his dancing crew is just a bunch of 30 year old guys acting like losers since they are stuck in a 13 year old mentality, This proves to be the most interesting moment in the film since the viewer is left to wonder whether the dialogue pertains to the plot only or is perhaps an introspective excursion for Kennedy himself. If it is, the 30 year old loser wins in the end, so Kenned can be seen as optimistic at best. If there seem to be too many suicide or death jokes in the movie, perhaps Kennedy is recognizing his failure and subtly suggesting something to the audience, were all ears. Ultimately, the audience is left wishing that Kennedy's character had not come out of a coma, or at least that they could be put into one for the remainder of the film.

easnyder A fantastic movie for any child of the 80s! That's really all you need to know. If you grew up in the 80s, collected garbage pail kids, carried cardboard and a ghetto blaster, sang we are the world, and watched different strokes and knight rider, then gather up some friends who share your history, and watch this movie as a celebration of our childhood. The soundtrack was great, the acting tolerable, and the script was creative. The b-boying was alright. There's a little antagonistic dude that does a great job, the rest is OK, and is actually pretty realistic depicting the differences between the style of the 80s and todays breaking. it's pure fun and entertainment. expect more, and you might be disappointed. expect a montage of the best of your childhood,and you'll have a great time.

bigtumbleweed24 what is the name and artist of all the songs on the Kickin' It Old Skool Movie? the movie was awesome. it was funny. awesome characters. love the music on the movie. i like break dancing, it is fun. the girls is fine as ever. kip looks weird with hair so use to seeing him without hair. love the clothes that they wear. who came up with the name funky fresh boys. that little kid Cole is an awesome break dancer. how long does it take to learn brake dancing? did Jamie Kennedy, bill Bellamy, Lee and the Mexican guy learn any break dancing moves while doing the movie? did the young kip and the young Justin have to learn break dancing or did they already know how to do it? how old is Cole? are the break dancing team in the end of the movie real break dancers? do they have break dancing competitions anymore?