Movie Recommendation of the Week: Karate Kid III

I’m going to go on record in saying that this is probably one of the worst movies I’ll ever recommend on this site.  But I’ll also go on record in saying that this movie is an absolute must see.  The unintentional comedy scale in Karate Kid III is absolutely off the charts.   So for all of you that don’t know here’s the premise to the third installment of the Karate Kid movies:

Going against the wishes of his mentor, Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita), Daniel (Ralph Macchio) will defend his karate title in an All-Valley Championship match arranged by his nemesis Kreese (Martin Kove), whose karate studio folded after his star student lost the championship to Daniel. Kreese’s friend, Vietnam veteran and toxic waste dumper Terry (Thomas Ian Griffith), agrees to help his old pal regain the championship trophy. Daniel’s rival Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan) is known as “the bad boy of karate,” and Daniel feels he requires more training to vanquish him. But Mr. Miyagi refuses to help Daniel train for the tournament: “Karate to defend life and honor means something. To defend a plastic trophy means nothing.” As a result, Daniel naïvely falls into the clutches of Terry, who takes him on as a karate student. But after Daniel finds himself trapped at the bottom of a cliff and Daniel’s girlfriend, Jessica (Robyn Lively), has her life threatened, Mr. Miyagi realizes the bad guys have gone too far and agrees to coach Daniel for the tournament.

Again, if anything you have to watch this movie for the funny lines such as “I love it when he pounds him.”  Check out the trailer after the jump…..

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOFBGkP_as

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2 Comments

  1. Ah, the late 80’s. When all our teen stars (who were in their mid-20’s when playing said teen roles) all reached 30….and continued to play their famous teenage characters, lol.

  2. Gotta love the racial eptiaph when John Kreese and Terry Silver call Mr Miyagi a “slope”. Almost as bad as all the stuff from The 48 Hours movies.

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