Body Rock

1/29/2026

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