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Karate Kid 3 [VHS]

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Damn! Come on! Here's a kid who gets karate training by an old, wise man who totally knows what he's doing. Daniel kicks ... at the tournament in the first. He does a bang-up job against an honor-obsessed No.1 student in Japan in the second.

Yet, with all that advice, knowledge, and some wisdom he gains by being around and living with Mr. Miagie (or however you spell his name), he totally gets played for a fool in the third. Also, even against Mike Barn's 2 henchmen, it's still somewhat like he hasn't even learned that much about karate to begin with. This movie was illogical. I mean, here's a kid who beats two No. 1 students in the first and second karate kid movies, and yet in the third, he just totally gets clobbered like he's a white belt!

Try to imagine Johnny and Chosen getting equally clobbered by Daniel's third opponent here, it doesn't make sense does it? It was like he totally lost all his karate experience. You'd think with Daniel going to Japan and learing 'traditional stuff' from the Land of the Rising Sun that he'd show Barns at least a thing or two and surprise him, but he didn't.

Plain and simple, this movie is insulting. He couldn't even hurt or score one hit on Mikey in the tournament. Hey, producers, YOU SHOULD'VE USED SOME COMMON SENSE!... This kid beat two highly skilled students!... It was like he was no different than in the first BEFORE he got trained....

The Karate Kid trilogy despicably ends with one of the most pathetic movies ever produced, "Karate Kid 3," which was SO stupid, in fact, that it was funny.

Years after Daniel-sahn has returned home from Japan, he has yet a NEW girlfriend, and resides with Miyagi somewhere in the U.S.A. Daniel-sahn is overweight and looking at him walk and talk, one would never guess that he even ever SAW a karate move in his entire life, much less PRACTICED one. He looks like a chubby nerd who probably couldn't defend himself against a scrappy chihuahua puppy, let alone an adept karateka.

In this flic, Daniel-sahn is coerced in numerous ways to begin training for a karate tournament that neither he nor Miyagi have any desire in entering. Miyagi, in fact, initially refuses to train him and tells Daniel-sahn that he's on his own. In comes Daniel's deus ex machina: One of the "bad guys" deceives Daniel into believing that he's a good guy that wants to train Daniel-sahn. And he trains him by having Daniel hitting wooden boards so hard that they bludgeon his fists! This aggressive training leads Daniel-sahn to break someone's nose, and finally the idiot gets a clue and realizes that he's been set up all along.

Finally, Miyagi comes into the picture and gets Daniel back into true form in time for the tournament where Daniel faces an opponent who is clearly much more confident and aggresive than Macchio. The tactic of Macchio's opponent -in typical, predictable fashion- is to injure Daniel-sahn as severely as possible, scoring illegal hits, then score a legal hit to win. In typical fashion, Daniel-sahn pulls himself together and wins the last point and the movie ends.

This is definitely a movie that should be submitted to Mystery Science Theater for review. Don't get me wrong; there's plenty of comedy, but the only problem is that the producers of the movie didn't INTEND this flic to be a comedy. Purchase this movie only if you enjoy comedies, but don't expect any of the drama and interesting plot found in the previous two Karate Kids.

This was the greatest of the trilogy! You have chacters like the "return of Kreese" and Terry Silver, and Karate's Bad Boy Mike Barnes! The comedy never stops! I love it when the greasy slime ball hits on Daniel's flavor of the movie, and he puts his nose through his brain!!!!!!! A true classic!!!!Bonzai!!! I saw this movie with my girl Megan O'Brien back in 1989 and it is still funny, we still use one liners out of this movie!