Body Rock

…what makes Body Rock an increasingly hot property of the so-bad-its-good genre is the quality of the music; it’s awful...

Body Rock, a dance movie without rhyme or reason. Holy Prancercise, this one is colorful. Here we have a more mature, more adult pop-lock movie that has a very respectable cast but doesn’t really know how to utilize what it’s got. Filmmaker Marcelo Epstein, yikes, definitely made this as a love letter to the street culture of New York at the time, including entire segments hyping up graffiti and breakdance cultures. But regardless of what Lennon preached, love wasn’t all you needed. Some talent wouldn’t have hurt. Produced by New World and Released September 28, 1984, Body Rock does little to make itself stand out from the crowd. These movies seemed to be a dime a dozen in the eighties. Literally, you couldn’t put a film on without seeing someone doing headspins or tagging up a boxcar in some railyard. This one just happens to have a more "street" edge to it, albeit a manufactured one. Our main character, Chilly, is calm and cool with his ear to the streets. He knows what's cool and fresh at all times. That’s why he’s an up-and-coming graffiti artist and talented hype-man. He is hilariously played here by Lorenzo Lamas, who is a walking eighties stereotype in this film. He shows off some "taco meat" on his bare chest, gold chains, a jean jacket, and a Lego-man haircut with a bandana, making him look like an extra doofus. Even with all that, it’s remarkable how plain and boring…

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