Kickin' It Old Skool is an American comedy film directed by Harvey Glazer and written by Trace Slobotkin. The cast includes Jamie Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, and Vivica A. Fox. This movie was released on April 27, 2007 and grossed just 2.49 million in that opening weekend. The movie is about a young breakdancer who hits his head during a talent show and slips into a coma for twenty years. Waking up in 2006 (without knowing everything has gone updated throughout the years during his coma), he looks to revive his and his team's career with the help of his girlfriend and his parents. In the movie, the character Kip is onstage and shouts "You're all slaves. How many of you even know you're alive?" This is a reference to Oliver Stone's movie, The Doors as the Jim Morrison character played by Val Kilmer shouts, "You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves...How many of you people know you're alive?"
The main theme of the movie is 80's Breakdance and has a link to the 1984 movie Breakin, from which 2 cast members were involved. Christopher McDonald playing the father and Shabba Doo as the Dance consultant for the movie.
The film's translation in Russia is "Show me the Old School".
Alan Ruck plays a character named Dr. Fry. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Alan Ruck played a character named Cameron Frye. Dr. Fry also mentions that he is still paying off the Ferrari!
In Justin's hospital room you can see he is hooked up to a flux capacitor, which in Back to the Future (1985) is what makes time travel possible.
