Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Electric Boogaloo is an entertaining and well-constructed documentary about Cannon Films, balancing affection and mockery effectively. The talking-head interviews and archive footage structure is competent but conventional for the genre — cinematography is baseline documentary fare with little visual distinction. The story of Golan-Globus is inherently fascinating and the film mines it well, though the format follows familiar rise-and-fall documentary templates. Acting scores reflect interviewee performances, which range from candid and funny to occasionally stiff. The ending captures the bittersweet collapse of Cannon without dramatic revelations. A solid, fun documentary for cinephiles but not a reinvention of the form.