GRADE: B- | Red plastic leather parachute pants and pop-and-lock are brought back to life in Jamie Kennedy’s new film “Kickin’ It Old Skool.” Many will agree that these fads of the 1980s are best left in that decade, but Kennedy manages to create an homage that will bring back memories for many.

For many people in their upper twenties, “Kickin’ It Old Skool” is a flashback to the single white glove and other fashions synonymous with Michael Jackson. But for those too young to relate, the movie is absurd and no doubt a guilty pleasure.

Kennedy’s “crew” is laughable when they reunite after 20 years. Justin Schumacher, Kennedy’s character, was put into a coma after doing a back flip off a stage at a talent show and landing on his head. When Schumacher wakes up, he is in a different world than the one he left and still has the mind of a 12-year-old. All his friends have moved on, and the girl he loved is now engaged to his enemy.

To help pay his parents back for the 20 years of hospital bills he racked up, Schumacher tries to get his “crew” back together and win a dance contest.

Schumacher, of course, runs into obstacles along the way but is helped with visits from Emmanuel Lewis and David Hasselhoff. When Schumacher needs a ride for his first date with Jennifer Stone, his long lost love, Hasselhoff shows up to lend the hand of his famous talking car from the television series “Knight Rider.”

Much of Kennedy’s humor is aimed at a younger crowd, though many of his jokes are about an era before this audience was conscious of the world around them. “Kickin’ It Old Skool” has the potential to be Kennedy’s “Wedding Singer,” but lacks the poignant comedy that Adam Sandler conveys. Both comedians have their ridiculous voices and crude humor, but Kennedy lacks Sandler’s edge.

As far as reality goes, the moves and styles portrayed in the movie appear accurate to the culture surrounding break dancing. The fashion is contrived, but the makers of the film did a good job finding people who could actually dance and pull off some of the most difficult moves in break dancing.

There is very little creative merit to Kennedy’s newest film, but for an hour and a half of entertainment, it will do the trick.