1980s retro movement

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The 1980s retro movement is a pop culture phenomenon of the 2000s which celebrates certain aspects of 1980s pop culture. It combines nostalgia for adults old enough to remember the 1980s and a retro kitsch appeal for those too young to have experienced them. ^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Contents

1 Events related to 1980s nostalgia

1.1 Television and movies
1.2 Advertisements
1.3 Music
1.4 Computer and video games
1.5 Other
1.6 See also

Events related to 1980s nostalgia

Television and movies

The Nickelodeon movie Jimmy Neutron used songs like "Kids in America" by Kim Wilde and "We Got The Beat" by the Go-Go's.
Wonder Showzen parodies 1980s animated cartoons like Care Bears, G.I. Joe, and He-Man.
Television franchises such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also made a comeback.
The short-lived Wacky Packages franchise was also among the items that saw a resurgence.
In December 2005, Larry King Live interviewed the cast of Roseanne, a sitcom that premiered in 1988, and later interviewed with her family in 2006.
The popular Fox Network shows Futurama and Family Guy often made references to events and pop culture in the 1980s and also featured many guest stars from the era.
The 1999 drama The Suburbans satirized the 80s revival hype.
I Love the 80s a BBC-produced series, documented many of the fads, trends, music videos, movies, television, and news & events of the decade. It had the highest ratings of all the "I Love the..." series and had two major sequels, I Love the 80s Strikes Back and I Love the 80s 3D.
There were also many films that produced that were set in the 1980s such as The Squid and the Whale, Donnie Darko, etc.
The return of the gross-out comedy (a la Porky's) as viable in the film industry followed the release of American Pie in 1999. American Pie 3 (aka American Wedding) features a dance off to 1980s hits.
Big hair, including the Mullet, returned in some areas as well as an excess of colorful makeup and rouge.
The hour-long television drama and primetime soap become popular again.
1980s-inspired motifs and designs have become fairly regularly used in popular culture.
Revival of interest in 1980s John Hughes movies, a la Not Another Teen Movie.
Overprocessed, loud, slow music has come increasingly back into fashion, echoing 1980s hair metal.
Napoleon Dynamite featured a community stuck in the 1980s. The fashion, hairstyles, decor, and appliances were all of Eighties-vintage. The character of Uncle Rico was constantly expressing his nostalgia for his high school days "back in '82."
Updated versions of 1980s cartoons such as Strawberry Shortcake, He-Man, Voltron, The Transformers, and Care Bears surfaced.
1980s cartoons such as The Care Bears, GI Joe, The Transformers, Strawberry Shortcake, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Garfield and Friends have been released on DVD.
The Disney Movie Sky High has a soundtrack that only featured covered versions to songs from the 1980s.
The 1981 Disney Movie The Fox and the Hound had a sequel released in 2006.
The Transformers is currently scheduled to be released as a motion picture in 2007.
The Smurfs is currently scheduled to be released as a motion picture in 2009.
The 1988 movie Hairspray is scheduled for a remake and French Bean will be released reviving the Bean franchise.
The Movie Miami Vice is based on the 1980s TV show Miami Vice and is scheduled for release in 2006.
Hit Movies from the '80s like The Breakfast Club were released as a High School Reunion series along with Ferris Beuller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles. MTV also honored The Breakfast Club on the 2005 Movie Awards.
Pee Wee's Playhouse and Saved by the Bell have become a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Kellogg's uses the Dead or Alive song "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" in their commercial.
Swiffer commercials also featured 80s music in their commercials such as Devo's "Whip It" and more recently "One Way or Another" by Blondie.
Many other commercials feature '80s music in their commercials such as commercials by Ritz.
Pizza Hut uses a parody of the Go-Go's song "We Got the Beat" in their commercial with "We Got the Meat"
Trio's "Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me)" and Styx's "Mr. Roboto" were used in Volkswagen commercials in the late 1990s.
PepsiCo uses Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" in an ad for Mountain Dew MDX energy soda.

Music

With the ascent of crunk and snap music, club music returns to the forefront of popular Hip hop music, after the predominance of alternative and gangsta rap in the 1990s.
Rihanna (herself only born in 1988) partially uses the lyrics and background music from the 1981 Soft Cell hit "Tainted Love" in her 2006 hit song "SOS (Rescue Me)".
[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]], a PlayStation 2 game taking place in 1986 and complete with several albums worth of 80's tunes.
Walt Disney Records publish an album by a band called Devo 2.0 which sing their One Hit Wonder Whip It as well as original hits.
Mobb Deep's song "Got It Twisted" samples Thomas Dolby's song "She Blinded Me With Science"
Retro Future, an album containing many remixed hits from the 1980s will be released in 2006.
Eric Prydz samples Steve Winwood's "Valerie" for the song "Call on Me," which has started a trend of dance acts using 80's hit as a sample loop.
Dance acts covering 80's hits between 2002 and 2004, which prior to that many hard rock and metal acts had already done at the start of the revival, started by a Limp Bizkit cover of George Michael's "Faith.".
1980s-style bands such as The Killers and Franz Ferdinand came to great success in the pop-punk, emo and numetal dominated mid-2000s. Much smaller comebacks by real 80s bands such as Mötley Crüe and Duran Duran also occurred.
Bowling For Soup, a popular band of the 2000s, released a song titled "1985", a very popular song among pre-teens and teens in the mid-2000s. It's also popular among nostalgic fans in their late 30s and early 40s. The song is about the longings of a bored 40-ish mother of teenagers for the dreamy days of her early 20-ish youth before she settled down. Its video also parodies many popular music videos of the era.
Electroclash, a common trend in 80s music which features very generic computer-like sounds, reappeared in popular music.
In 2003, the band No Doubt releases a cover version of the song, It's My Life, originally performed by Talk Talk in 1984.

Computer and video games

[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]], a PlayStation 2 game takes place in 1986.
The Classic NES Series is released to Game Boy Advance in 2004 and is favored by classic gaming enthusiasts.
Kingdom Hearts 2 features a world on Tron which was a movie released in 1982. The developers wanted to reach the gamers that were nostalgic.
Tron 2.0 was released in the 2000s along with other remakes of popular 80s videogames including NARC despite being unrelated to the original.
Nostalgia for Old-Skool video games and arcade culture, particularly emulators, particularly the MAME system became popular as a result.
Several well known video game publishers with arcade game background, such as Sega, Irem, Taito, etc during the 80s released compilation games, namely Capcom Generations. Many of them were released prior to the retro movement, as the retro movement became popular, many of these compliation games' secondhand prices skyrocketed, significantly higher for the Sega Saturn compared with the same title released on the Sony Playstation notably on the 1998 game Image Fight & X-Multiply which commands $10 extra for the former console over the PSX.
Most of the games featured on the Plug-and-Play mini-consoles feature games from the 1980s, some series include Namco and Atari. Atari even released an Old-Skool style console for purchase that has games built-in known as the Atari Flashback.
Nintendo releases New Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo DS. This game is modeled after the 1985 original.

Other

The release of The Wedding Singer in 1998, which was seen by many as premature nostalgia. However, some 1980s retoization has occured in the earlier portion of the 1990s.
Slow, escalating return of popular 1980s fashion motifs in popular fashion. This includes the preppie and new wave styles and their repopularization in the 2000s. As well, bright and imposing colors, a much more tailored/imposing/composed look, the prevalence of daringly cut jackets and high waists, and the impending (from 2006 February Fashion Week) reintroduction of leggings and the "puffy" look. Wearing high-heeled boots, specifically tucking one's slacks into them, becomes a popular trend among young women -- which was also a popular trend during the '80s. Hoop Earrings also made a comeback.
"Fun in the sun" images became popular again.
1980s cartoons shirt designs became popular again.
In the United Kingdom, a chain of 1980s-themed bars (branded as Reflex) have recently gained increasing prominence in various towns and cities.[link] These bars do serve drinks such as alcopops that only gained popularity in the late 1990s-early 2000s, but the music is entirely 1980s pop with a mix of early 90s pop and the decor is usually indicative of 1980s pop culture icons.
Many radio stations have "80's flashback" programs featuring danceable 1980's New Wave tracks.
Several homages and references to 1980s media by the same developers or publishers have been put in movies, games and TV shows.
During the American Graffiti skit on I Love the 70s Volume 2, two interviewers said that they "should be talking about the '80s because its retro now, the 70s are ten years too late".