Advantages: great action and entertainment Disadvantages: a little slow to begin
Director: John G. Avildsen.
Producers: Jerry Weintraub, Bud S. Smith and R. J. Louis
Writer: Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeht Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller and William Zabka.
This first in the karate kid sage was released in June 1984, involving the life of a school boy who had just moved into a new neighbourhood with his mother.
** BRIEF PLOT **
When Daniel LaRusso, (played by Ralph Macchio) and his mother Lucille, (played by Randee Heller) move into a new apartment in a small neighbourhood things seem to be going well, until Daniel starts at the local school.
When Daniel becomes friends with Ali Mills, (played by Elisabeth Shue) he soon realises that her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Lawrence, (played by William Zabka) and his little gang of Karate members are going to be trouble ...
Advantages: Mr Miyagi, Daniel Disadvantages: Same as first movie
Some sequels probably should never be made and unfortunately Karate Kid 2 is probably one of those films. Karate Kid 1 is one of my favourite 80?s movies, classic scenes (wax on, wax off ? the end fight scene) but in my opinion the magic cannot be captured again and consequently the film falls flat because of that and becomes something that we?ve seen once and don?t really need to see again in a remake. However, according to an article I read, like the original film, the sequel was also a success and earned even more at the box-office than its predecessor and considered by many fans to be the best in the series. Well, not by me but oh well.
Karate Kid II was released in 1986. The second film contains the same main characters as the first movie and follows on directly after the fight scene in the original movie. Ralph Macchio returns ...
The Karate Kid
This film as got actors Ralph Macchio, (Daniel) Pat Morita, (Mr Miyagi).
This story is about a family that moves from New Jersey to South California, and Daniel has no friends.
He is leaving all his friends behind in New Jersey. The reason for this move is that Daniel's mother has been offered a new job, which means she has to take Daniel with her.
The rent a little flat from a man called Mr Miyagi who Daniel thinks is the handyman and he doesn't no he can do Karate.
Daniel decides to go and check out, he is asked to go to a beech party so he decides to go. Over the last few days he had notice a girl, not realising that she has a boyfriend he tries to get to no her.
At the beech party things to not go as he plans and the girls he likes Ali (Elizabeth Shue) gets into a fight with her boyfriend who breaks ...
