Breakin' vs. Krumpin' (2005 Video) User Reviews

A whole messworth of dance

[cristom3 · 7/10 · 22 August 2006]

The Bridges/ Shabba Doo trainwreck entitled 'breakin vs krumpin' set sail to hopefully get peoples interest in the clashing battle between a fairly old hip hop style of dance VERSUS the new leaders of the proposed future of hip hop dance. Todd ' WIllis ' Bridges takes the 5 pioneers of Krump under his wing, while SHabba Doo lofts out to search for lionhearted BBOYs in Socal. this is the tip of the iceberg, and the beginning of a long end.

the film focuses OBVIOUSLY on the birth and emergence of the krump kings. it shows heartwarming accounts of these dancers and the hardships they dealt with while growing up. we see the ghettos and shortcomings of the Krumpers, and begin to feel why they have to release all this energy and emotion through their dance. we splice these scenes with studio auditions w/ Shabba Doo and his lowly PR's. (reps, not Puerto Ricans) the auditions are going awful as the stylish yet style-LESS hip hoppers take to the stage whilst trying to impress him. the lack of energy and even misunderstanding of certain styles leave Shabba Doo in a terrible mess.

*flash forward 30 minutes* Shabba Doo finally enlists the help of BBoy Crumbs (you got served, style elements). with Doo and Crumbs, they hand pick the best quintet to battle the Krumpers. the wheels are set and everything seems to be in motion. At the battle, the 40 people in attendance are obviously rooting for the home turf favorites (the krumpers). the BBOys only ever come out to very underground rap beats (no anthems whatsoever) the Krumpers don't do any routines or sets, and the vibe is obviously set to give the krumpers the higher upper-hand that the producers obviously had in mind. when the film concludes, we only have this to discover...the Krumpers actually beat the Breakers. now this is by no means what i had concluded, but this is what the judges (bridges and Doo) figure out for themselves. the krumpers have just defeated 5 live and direct BBOYS on national straight-to-DVD....so with that, i hung my head in despair and convolution.

even though i DO NOT agree with the direction the film went in, i respect and understand the style and processes of this film. thus, i give it a 7 overall. I recommend this film for anti-BBOYS and also anti-Krumpers ONLY.

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[asspop123 · 5/10 · 25 July 2007]

The movie bases itself on that BBoying doesn't have the same intensity and anger as Krumpin. That is a load of crap, it brings the same and even more intensity and anger as Krumpin. The difference here is that Krumpin only brings anger into the dance, while BBoying brings anger, skills, dancing, execution etc... I understand how Krumpin is the new dance and how they let their anger out and make you understand how they are feeling. But that has nothing to do with skills at all. The reason they called it a tie was because if they had said the BBoy's had won it would be because Adolfo Quinones used to be one and it would look unfair. Bboy vs Krumpin, you can compare it. Bboying requires athleticism and dedication day in and day out, its amazing how much hard work you have to do to be like these Bboy's in this movie. It takes years of training to achieve what you seen in this movie. While Krumpin, anger anger and more anger ohh yea i forgot intensity brings flailing arms and looking mean. Furthermore, Bboying/Popping/Locking doesn't get any props in todays society especially in America. The Krumpers in this movie know they can't compete with the bboy's so thats why they had to make the rule " The truest to the style of dance." Willis said some nonsense about bboy's during the movie that anyone in their right mind would say its bs. The bboy's stayed true to their word and "Demolished" the Krumpers without even trying. I give this movie a 5 only because it had a somewhat interesting story and had Bboys defeat the Krumpers convincingly only to hear that it was a tie at the end. Ohh and I almost forgot I'm not a 40 year old person, I'm only 19 and I can tell you that Bboying requires the most dedication and work and at the end of the day its the most amazing. Regardless of what this movie says about it.

I also noticed, that when the krumpers were on stage dancing, the editors in the movie dubbed screams and hype men while they were dancing, while the bboys they didn't dub anything in them it was just the audience claps and some cheers. This is a really biased movie, dubbing fake screams and cheers while the krumpers were dancing, you notice it right away since the people watching the battle, their mouths are not moving.