"The Karate Kid" is a terrific sports movie that was marred by two subpar sequels.Īnd you forget this now, but Mr. OK? OK.īack to the brilliance of "The Karate Kid." For one thing, there's a terrific plot: Lovable loser Daniel moves to California, feuds with a band of moped-riding karate bullies, gets his butt kicked repeatedly, turns to a Japanese maintenance man for guidance, learns karate, learns about life, falls in love, enters a tournament against the bullies, gets injured in the semifinals, rallies back to fight his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend in the Finals, improbably gets the win. Any "Best Sports Movies" list that doesn't feature either "Hoosiers" or "The Natural" as the No. 1, the dumbest, most outrageous thing in the history of, and for the love of God, I will not argue about this. Please ignore the ludicrous voting, which omitted "The Karate Kid," "Fast Break" and "Major League" from the Top 20 and featured a chick flick (Bull Durham) at No. Quite simply, one of the 15 best sports movies of all-time. Here's a closer examination of all three films, in order: this isn't really happening, is it?", we might as well recap the LaRusso Era once and for all. And since that trilogy ran the gamut from "superb" to "awkward" to "wait a second. You hear me? Just like "Rocky V," "Another 48 Hours," "Caddyshack 2," "Another Midnight Run," "Fletch 2," "Made," "Slap Shot II: Breaking the Ice," the final season of "90210" and everything else, "The Next Karate Kid" never happened.įor my money, the "Karate Kid" franchise lived and died with the immortal Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, and it remains the most memorable Sports Movie Trilogy of all-time. Miyagi's new student), but as far as I'm concerned, that movie never happened. Sure, there was allegedly a fourth installment ("The Next Karate Kid," featuring Hillary Swank as Mr.
Which brings us to the Karate Kid trilogy.
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Sports Guy's definition for a movie trilogy: "A series of three dramas in which the first movie did so well, they couldn't help themselves, so they brought everyone back to make more money in an uninspired sequel, only that one did pretty well, too, so they brought everyone back again for a third movie, just to beat the dead horse completely into the ground." Miyagi teaches Daniel-San karate and life lessons in the "Karate Kid" saga.
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