Sometimes, the best documentaries are about losers, accidental stardom, hubris, and horrible people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2022

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is essential viewing for those who grew-up in the 1980s, knowing that the Cannon logo meant something 'special'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2021

If you're like me, you grew up on a steady diet of Cannon Films. That iconic logo showing up before a movie was a sign that you were about to experience something, maybe not necessarily something good, but something to behold certainly.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2020

Electric Boogaloo is a great in-depth look at one of the strangest studios that was not only churning out films, but filling video store shelves, with a brand of insanity or madness that has yet to be seen since.

| May 29, 2020

This is a thorough and respectful documentary - Cannon Films undeniably taught Hollywood a lesson through bad example, but whether they were ahead of their time or shysters is left open.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2019

While the documentary's scattershot approach makes it less examination, more vivid highlight reel, there is no denying Electric Boogaloo's abiding fodness for its subject matter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2019

It isn't a bad thing Hartley's main concern is with having a good time, but there seems to be less attention to detail when it comes to the overall structure.

| Nov 13, 2018

Wild though the film often is, a truly revelatory history of the studio and its legacy remains untold.

| Oct 16, 2017

It is, as per usual for Hartley, a giddy, lightning-paced celebration of cheerfully terrible movies.

| May 28, 2016

Directed with tremendous energy for much of its first half, as Cannon starts to wear out is welcome, so does this documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 2, 2016

Clip shows like this are always fun for die-hard movie buffs (including critics), especially in a case like this, when the clips are much more potent than the completed films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2016

[Mark] Hartley may be irreverent in his approach, but it's clear that he loves this stuff. Electric Boogaloo (which gets its name from one of Cannon's own films) shares that love with the rest of us.

| Feb 12, 2016

As he did with his previous documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (which made my 10 Best list for 2009), director Mark Hartley compiles ample film clips to help tell the saga.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 3, 2015

The documentary assembles a riveting barrage of anecdotes from assorted colleagues to convey the glory, chaos and legacy of Cannon Films.

| Sep 16, 2015

[Director Mark Hartley] has assembled a lively collection of clips and interviews that gives the Cannon story definition and shape, without stinting on the gratuitous anecdotes.

| Jun 11, 2015

Offers a cornucopia of spectacularly trashy clips that will leave you laughing, screaming and squirming - sometimes all at once.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2015

It's a hilarious, couldn't-make-it-up journey into one of film's strangest chapters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2015

[A] riotous, flavourful documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2015

A must-see for cinephiles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2015

What it does offer are some wildly colourful, jaw-dropping anecdotes from their friends and collaborators about their working methods.

| Jun 4, 2015