Then Silver goes undercover as a mild-mannered nice guy who apologizes for the dishonor of John Kreese as he launches a supposedly kinder, gentler incarnation of Cobra Kai. Silver recruits a young bully to become Daniel’s new rival – a guy that a magazine called “Karate’s Bad Boy – Tournament Terror Mike Barnes” (Sean Kanan, HIDE AND GO SHRIEK). (Or maybe both characters are just irredeemable assholes.) It’s kinda like that great moment in YOUNG ADULT where she has a perfect window to grow and learn and become a better person, but she talks to the exact wrong person and chooses the easier route of listening to bad advice. But when he goes to Silver’s mansion to tell him he’s hanging it up, the bastard comes up with another plan. He lost all his students and ran out of money and now that he’s a humbled underdog it really seems for a minute like he could go the way of Boyka in UNDISPUTED III or Drago at the end of CREED II and become someone we root for. You know I love Martin Kove, so I was excited when the opening recap montage led into Kreese during hard times, having been humiliated by the tournament loss and the incident in the parking lot where Miyagi dodged his punches and then pretended to honk his nose, which is considered the gravest of insults in white California karate circles.
He’s basically a nice kid, but I could never be around him for more than five minutes, and in this one he makes even dumber choices than before.īut this is probly my favorite one anyway because it also has the most ridiculous villain: introducing Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry Silver, super-rich martial artist, founder of Cobra Kai, “President of Dynatox Industries” and Vietnam buddy of part I villain John Kreese (Martin Kove, STEELE JUSTICE, BARE KNUCKLES). There’s some kind of rule that he has to use at least four times as many words as necessary at all times, constantly thinking out loud, gratuitously repeating phrases, just non-stop inane blabbering and noise noise noise noise. The guy never fuckin shuts up, and to me it’s not endearing the way it is in ROCKY. On the other hand, Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio)’s karate knowledge and technique seem minimal while his jibber jabber is maximal. I also have some affection for some of the cheesy montage rock songs and story elements like the evil dojo or teaching somebody karate by making them do chores. On one hand, I am a human being so obviously I love the character of Mr. I have to admit that I have very mixed feelings about these movies. Since they never made a cartoon about Rocky Balboa traveling around solving mysteries I think this is the only time a character introduced in an Academy Award nominated performance did cartoon intros. T, Chuck Norris and Hulk Hogan, it had live action intros and outros starring Pat Morita as Mr.
Kid3 review movie#
The movie cast did not do the voices, but in the tradition of the cartoons featuring Mr. That also means it takes place immediately after the 13-episode NBC Saturday morning cartoon (the Star Wars: The Clone Wars of the KARATE KID franchise) that ran that year, which was about the two of them meeting a girl named Taki in Okinawa and traveling around the world with her trying to retrieve a magic talisman stolen from a temple.
This one takes place immediately after part II, when Miyagi and Daniel return on the plane from Okinawa. We have moved well beyond that nonsense and fuck you if you even think for one second that– oh, what’s that? We’re doing tournaments and cheering crowds again? Oh, cool! Welcome back!
This time… the combat… is real.” Of course there’s no more tournaments and crowds and shit, that wasn’t real combat at all, that was for babies, and only a complete coward would make another movie about that kind of sissy bullshit. But it’s kinda funny to me because PART II’s trailer narrator said, “No more tournaments. I think PART II had an okay reception, and this isn’t supposed to be an apology for it like LAST CRUSADE was for TEMPLE OF DOOM.
Kid3 review series#
And then of course both series also have a much later, unpopular part 4 and a pretty enjoyable remake starring Jaden Smith. Vern pointed out to me, the series kind of follows the same pattern as Indy: there’s the popular first one, the second one goes off in a different direction (bringing him to Japan), and then the third one plays it safe by being closer to part 1, with Cobra Kai, John Kreese and the All-Valley Karate Tournament. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE was not the only part 3 on offer for Summer of ’89 – there was also John Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID PART III.
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