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The Karate Kid series..

On Saturday Night after getting home from watching Land of the dead at the cheap theatre..

I watched a movie that I taped on YTV called The Karate Kid Part 2.

Who here seen all 4 movies?

I am planning to get the Karate Kid Collection on dvd.

It's a worthy movie that is very positive and teaches you alot about how Karate is used and etc..

just bought the two first movies, i never get tired of them.
havent seen the 4th movie, and havent find it in any dvd store.
so i guess i must order it, if it even is out on dvd.

Search up "The Karate Kid Collection"

It has all 4 movies included with widescreens and some extras..

One and two are great movies. Three is...okay. But don't waste your money on four. Four is horrible.

Four is called the Next karate Kid and replaces Daniel San with a female student for Miagi, played by Million Dollar Baby star Hillary Swank

I saw 4 a long time ago, I think I liked it. The first two were great, haven't seen the third one yet.

The first one was alright, but the sequels were basically the same thing with a new girlfriend and rival.

I'm a huge Karate Kid fan. My brother-in-law and I quote the movies constantly while we're at work. Gotta do something to break the ol' furniture-moving tedium. :lol:

I actually liked 3 the best, followed by 1 and then 2. The Next Karate Kid is easily the worst of the four, but it wasn't as bad as I remembered, it's just rather pointless and really quite boring. You could tell the movie was made entirely on the conceit of "let's have Miyagi train a chick this time". I would have liked at least an explanation of what the hell happened to Daniel. At least say he was still in jail from "My Cousin Vinny" or something. :lol:

However, Hillary Swank was smokin' hot in this movie, so that made it worth watching for me, anyway. Mmmmm, belly shirts...

Ooh! I like Karate Kid! :D

The first one is of course, excellent. The second one was pretty good. The third one was alright...

The forth one is certainly... different...
Not a great movie, but its weird randomness makes it a worth a watch. Especially the silly hall monitors and their "coach". :lol:

Boy, my friends and I had some pretty good laughs as we poked fun at the hall monitors.

"We'll see you at the Docks!" :lol:

I saw the 1st 2nd and 4th. I own 1 & 2 but I need to get 3 & 4. Very good movies.

I love the first movie, which was directed by John G. Avildson, who also did the first and last Rocky movies. I like the second one, I thaught it was a good sequel, mainly because we got to see more of who Mr. Miagi is. I don't like 3, and I really don't like 4. 4 in my opinion is only worth watching because of Hilary Swank. I'm with ya, Leo656! BELLY SHIRTS!!!

I saw the first 3 (was the third one the one with Hilary Swank?) if that was the fourth one then that means I've seen all four, scary!!! :o

I re-wrote my post here as an article for my site and polished it here and there http://miscrave.com/articles/karate-kid-trilogy

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Sorry to revive an old thread but thought it was probably better for this franchise.

Anyway, I'd never seen the Karate Kid before, only parts of it as a kid and because of cultural references/parodies I definitely knew all the "iconic" parts of it. I was always curious to watch it and many times almost bought the DVD but never did. A few weeks ago I saw that they were all on Netflix and when I saw the cartoon would be taken off in just a few days I thought I'd better watch it all now since I'm a completist.

My first Karate Kid movie was the reboot with Jackie Chan and Jayden Smith when it came out, I had my doubts but I ended up thinking that it was a very good movie. I don't remember it very well anymore though so I need to rewatch it sometime. Its getting a sequel and i'm glad, not sure what direction they'll take but hope its good, you know it'd be neat to see Daniel returning in the sequel as some type of mentor or rival.

The original Karate Kid movie is definitely a bit dated but its a good movie. The pacing of the movie actually surprised me since I expected it to be a little more "by the book" and based on the parodies I thought I knew how everything would go. From my memories I think the reboot was better but that's only because it had this one to use as its basis and improve/update the rest. Definitely worth a watch for fans of martial arts movies.

After this I watched the Karate Kid cartoon. It was made by Saban who is known for being cheap and it shows since it looks really cheap. The show reeks of the 80s and has the most generic plots you can imagine straight out of other 80s cartoons. Now I have to admit since I was binge watching it so I could finish it before they took it off Netflix I didn't watch with a lot of detail or I wouldn't have been able to do it so I didn't pay too much attention to the show. The show seems to take place after the trilogy since it doesn't make much sense after the original movie but fits a little better after the second one since he is just randomly travelling with Mr. Miyagi. They travel around the world to find this "mini shrine" that gives powers so there's an evil person who wants it in each episode. The show is filled with stereotypes which I guess fits the franchise and Mr. Miyagi being somewhat of a Japanese stereotype, but I don't know the characters just don't fit the role of world explorers and seems like another 80s show just copied and pasted with the Karate Kid name. There's a new character an Okinawa girl,s he's ok but could've used some character development or at least been the same girl from the second movie. The plot is never really explained through a pilot episode, the closest we come is when they get to Okinawa to return the Shrine (only to be lost again) in one episode. Haven't seen part 3 but I'd say the show can't fit continuity in any logical way. The theme song and ending song aren't bad so there's that and Mr. Miyagi seems to be a little too active but other than that isn't too out of character. Daniel himself seems to fit the character personality in the movie but then again his personality is a generic 80s teen learning lessons each episode that was used in every 80s cartoon that just happens to fit his movie personality. Overall not recommended unless very curious.

I also watched the Karate Kid Part II, I liked how it picks up after the first movie, I wonder if that part was filmed in the first movie and not used? Makes sense or why else bring back all the actors for a short scene? But Alis absence in that intro also points to it being a new scene not to mention how it ties to the ending. Anywho I thought this would be the plot for the third movie and expected the second part to be more similar to the original only dealing with a new challenge. So I give it props that it heads into a new direction. The absence of Ali is kind of a bummer since we just spent a whole movie introducing her only to say she fell for another guy, though technically that's very realistic for their age..Now going to Okinawa is a good idea but to me it kind of destroyed the mystery Mr. Miyagi had, not to mention it did make him look like somewhat of a coward by running away from his problems and that he didn't train for as long as we thought in Okinaway. Didn't like that it diviated so much Not as fun as the original but I give it props to trying something different. I liked Kumiko but the "love" story isn't developed very well but I guess it makes sense since its just a girl from another country. I also like how the KK movies so far end exactly when the final fight finishes, no need for celebration or dialog, just the final defeat.

I'll watch Part III and Next next week and post my thoughts about them.

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 1356460)

My first Karate Kid movie was the reboot with Jackie Chan and Jayden Smith when it came out, I had my doubts but I ended up thinking that it was a very good movie. I don't remember it very well anymore though so I need to rewatch it sometime. Its getting a sequel and i'm glad, not sure what direction they'll take but hope its good, you know it'd be neat to see Daniel returning in the sequel as some type of mentor or rival.

Personally I think they should have called it "Kung-Fu Kid" as the script itself mentioned Kung-Fu and not Karate, <.<

those movies are awesome. 2 is my favorite. I love 1 and 2, 3 I don't really care for. Haven't seen the 4th in a while. and the reboot I don't even consider part of the series.

didn't really get into the Karate Kid (I watched the first movie)....But I liked the reboot :3 Don't know why they called it Karate kid though.

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Originally Posted by BabyTurtles (Post 1356647)

didn't really get into the Karate Kid (I watched the first movie)....But I liked the reboot :3 Don't know why they called it Karate kid though.

I think it is because Jaden´s Character used to do Karate back in the states, and all the Chinese cool Kids know that Karate is inferior to Kung Fu! WRATAAAAAHH! <0/

And therefore they make fun of Jaden by calling him Karate Kid :P

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Also I love Karate Kid Part II. It is like my favorite Movie ever! :D

No Retreat, No Surrender is also pretty good! :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYgAGt3bps

[YOUTUB]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYgAGt3bps[/YOUTUBE]

I rewrote this post on my site and polished it a bit http://miscrave.com/articles/karate-kid-sequels

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Well I finished watching the other movies.

Karate Kid Part III is what I expected from part II and viceversa but it works out like this as well. Having another tournament is fun even if they tried to up the stakes it still didn't feel as rewarding as the first tournament. It does re-tread similar ground but not entirely, some of the new parts are great additions but some of them are terrible. Overall its not a bad film, don't know why it gets so much hate, it's as good as the second movie and also as unnecessary since the original is a pretty stand alone film but the sequels are far from terrible and a decent addition. I had a few problems with the timeline though, so Daniel is going to go to College? But he just got his drivers license in the first movie and looked 16, they clearly state its been one year since the tournament. Also why do they say he stayed 9 months in Okinawa? Last movie we see he was only there for a short time. And a new love interest? I wonder why they couldn't be bothered to give him a love interest that lasted more than one movie instead of having a new girl to win over in each movie. I also didn't understand why the other guy was training Daniel, they never outright state it. Was it to injure him? It seemed to be their standard training to make him "strong" and not deliberately to hurt him. To get to Mr. Miyagi? Was it really worth getting to him by making him stronger? And I thought the plot of him giving away his college fund for the shop meant the shop would be a success at the end of the movie or that the tournament would grant money, it just seemed like a plot they forgot to go back to.

Now The Next Karate Kid is another movie that gets a lot of hate but I also found it better than what I expected. Instead of an necessary sequel at least it had a new person. This movie definitely looks like a 90s Karate Kid movie so its interesting to see it that way instead of the original that feels very 80s. Hilary Swank does a decent job and her training is interesting. The bad guy seemed a little too bad for the sake of being bad but so did the other sequels. Without a tournament or anything it felt like something was missing to the plot or to see where it was going and you aren't satisfied with the ending. They seemed to never mention her grades later on either which was a big part. My biggest disappointment was the lack of explanation for Daniel San. Mr. Mayagi acknowledges him in a line, but why not instead of that mention that his previous student is in college? Daniel obviously meant a lot to him so a "Boys are much easier to deal with, I had a student named Daniel San" seems a bit of a weird reference that took as long but didn't have any heart. Far from a terrible movie.