This and Missing in Action were the hits that provided the basis for the Cannon Group and it stands up today as a good example of exploitation filmmaking - if you're going to make a film about breakdancing, just jam pack it full of breakdancing. So from the get-go you've got backspins, and moon walking, and street gear and all that stuff.The plot is a perfectly acceptable crap - an uptight ballet dancer joins a street dance troupe who want to audition; there is an evil dancer and so on.
Opportunities are missed and punches are pulled - for instance, there is no real romance (they hint at an attraction between Lucinda Dickey and her agent, and also between her and her dark skinned co star - were they afraid of pursuing the latter?).
But it has colourful costumes, a catchy hit song, "There's No Stopping Us", a great craptacular finale which owes more than a nod to Flashdance where the three audition in front of a stuffy jury (one rips the sleeves off his tux - right on!), Ice T playing a DJ and a clearly-visible Jean Claude Van Damme in bit part.
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