While the film dutifully evokes a variety of ’80s cultural artifacts (Garbage Pail Kids, “Flashdance,” Beta tapes, etc.) and features cameos from such celebrity figures from the era as David Hasselhoff and Emmanuel Lewis, it doesn’t really have much fun with the contrast between then and now.
Along the way, he reunites with childhood sweetheart Jen (Maria Menounos), now engaged to his old nemesis (Michael Rosenbaum). Nunez Jr.) geeky office worker Aki (Bobby Lee) and overweight Hector (Aris Alvarado). When the now-adult Justin (Kennedy) regains consciousness after hearing a snippet of a vintage pop tune, he finds himself - like Tom Hanks in “Big” and myriad other cinematic variations - a boy trapped in a grown man’s body, with an ’80s sensibility in a 21st century world to boot.Īttempting to win a large sum of money for his parents by winning a modern hip-hop dancing competition, he reunites his old multiracial crew, composed of henpecked husband and would-be inventor Darnell (Miguel A.
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