I hated it so much that I have vehemently avoided any and all Karate Kid-related releases over the last 31 years. Like, the one positive thing I could say was that I made it to the closing credits without a chickenpox outbreak. I went to see it with my dad and we both absolutely fucking hated it. The Karate Kid Part III finally dropped in June of 1989.in the middle of one of the fiercest summer movie line-ups in the history of summer movies (Batman.Indiana Jones and the Last Buck.shit, Do the Right Thing!). I’m just still sore about 34 years later is all! Part II is a decent enough film that gets kicked up a notch or two by the inclusion of the Peter Cetera tune “Glory of Love”.possibly the greatest song to have even been featured in a motion picture.ever. ![]() I tell this story a lot.even though it doesn’t really have anything to go with anything. ![]() I saw it on the last day of the 2nd grade and proceeded to come down with a severe, summer-destroying case of the chickenpox about halfway through said flick. Poor lady.dropping all of her hard earned cash to pick up a kid with a purple mouth, a white belt, and no karate skills whatsoever. I remember the instructor trying to teach us something called the “thrust punch” on day one and I was all like “eff that noise.when we gonna learn that sick ass crane move.HiYAH!.YAH!.YAH!” When the instructor explained that this isn’t how real karate works I got all pissed off and bought a bunch of Very Fine grape juice from the vending machine in the lobby and hid in the mop closet until my mom came to get me. Dude got himself a Gi and a white belt and ended his karate career with that very same white belt about a month later. I can tell you that this reviewer personally signed up at three different Worcester-based karate studios in 1986. ![]() I don’t have any sort of official facts and figures in front of me but I’m gonna go ahead and say that a lot of karate studio owners across the US probably retired off of the Karate Kid-based cash windfall they saw in the mid to late 80’s. I was only six years old when The Karate Kid hit the screens in 1984.but I was old enough to know that it was bigger than Bigfoot (the monster truck.not the dude from Harry and the Hendersons).
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