TWO NEW MOVIES are poppin’ and lockin’ their way into the hearts of breakdancing and movie-going fans this week.

Benson Lee’s feature-length documentary “Planet B-Boy” opens Thursday, April 26, as part of New York’s annual Tribeca Film Festival. Following “B-Boy” comes “Kickin’ It Old Skool,” a comedy that simultaneously parodies and pays homage to the world of breakdancing (opens nationwide Friday, April 27).

Both films are sure to deliver on some crazy visuals that’ll have us head-noddin’ in appreciation or snorting soda through our noses in amazement.

In “Planet B-Boy,” director Lee and producer Amy Lo follow five b-boy crews as they do their thang on the streets of America, France, Japan and South Korea. The doc reveals the international world of b-boys and b-girls whose fierce talent transcend language and elevate breakdancing to an art form. It culminates in the Battle of the Year, the World Cup of b-boying held annually in Germany, where the five crews face off against the best breakdancers in the world.

“Kickin’ It Old Skool” stars Jamie Kennedy as a 32-year-old, former middle-school breakdancing champ who awakens from a coma, 20 years after a head spin ended badly, and must now regain his dignity, his crown, and his girl. His trusty sidekick is Korean-American actor/comedian Bobby Lee, who plays Aki Terasaki, bustin’ his signature move “The Roboto” over the familiar chords of “Domo Arigato.”

Bobby Lee has been a featured actor on the “MADtv,” the poor man’s “SNL” since 2001, and has memorably impersonated Connie Chung, Kim Jong-il, and the Harujuki Girls. Discovered by Pauly Shore, he honed his skills at the Comedy Store before going on to “MADtv.”

My favorite Bobby Lee performance was when he played the tight-laced geek Kenneth Park in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” in which he transforms from Super Korean Dork into Super-High Korean Dork, stripping down to his tighty-whiteys and swinging his long-sleeved, button-down shirt around his head at a Princeton dorm-room party.

Additionally, “Kickin’ It” features cameos by Erik Estrada, David Hasselhoff, Emmanuel Lewis, and John Ratzenberger, as themselves. Perfect examples of actors who have ingrained themselves so deeply into our collective pop consciousness that their only recourse at this point really, is to play themselves. Better in the movies than on reality TV, I say. Also keep an eye out for Kira Clavell, who will no doubt make an impression as Yun. (Her background is more mixed up than a Long Island iced tea—Irish/Spanish father and Filipina/Cantonese/Hawaiian/Polynesian mother. Just drink it in!)

With two movies out about breakdancing, there is really only one question: which one has the better soundtrack? Grab your hoodies and your Pumas and check it, check it out. •