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Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing; a troubled adolescent girl.
During a commemoration for Japanese soldiers fighting in the US Army during World War II, Mr. Miyagi meets the widow of his commanding officer. He gets to know her granddaughter Julie, an angry teenager who is still feeling the pain of losing both her parents in an accident and is having problems with her grandmother and her fellow pupils. Mr. Miyagi decides to teach her karate to get her through her pain and issues and back on the right path.
Karate Kid 1, 2 and 3 are good films, even by today's standards. But they really shouldn't have made The Next Karate Kid. This really was one big disapointment. Well the hell did they make this? Obviously, they only made it because they knew it'd make good money. Pat Morita should be ashamed of himself for making this horrible sequel. Surely he must've known that this ruined the original trilogy, which is why he probably has no career now (or at least a good one). And Hilary Swank is no match for Ralph Macchio. I figure if they were going to make a 4th Karate Kid, they should've made it about Daniel and Miyagi, not the annoying Julie! Oh well. At least I still have the fond memories of the originals and try to forget this horrible sequel.

The story is that at a commemoration for Japanese soldiers fighting in the US Army during World War II, Miyagi (Pat Morita) meets the widow of his commanding officer. He gets to know her granddaugther Julie (HIlary Swank), an angry teenager who doesn't get along with anyone and is still upset about the death of her parents from an accident. Miyagi decides to teach her karate and help her out, both in school and life. And there's another karate gang that bully Julie and eventually they take it too far, so Julie and Miyagi have to do battle with them.

The performances are fine, but this movie wasn't nessercary at all. It's a shame that this didn't continue the story of Daniel and Miyagi, but I guess that story didn't really have anywhere to go since Daniel was grown up by then (even if they did, he'd be more like a "Karate Man" and that'd probably be crap too), so they changed it to focus on Julie instead. Miyagi and Julie sort of mix together, but not in the way that Daniel and Miyagi did. I wouldn't say this is one of the worst movies ever (films like My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) would be in that department), but it's far from being the best either.

Rating: 2/5 In 1984, The Karate Kid had some charm to it, even if it was little more than a poor man's Rocky. Alas, producer Jerry Weintraub failed to realize it was best to leave the story at the point where it had ended, and convinced Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy. Part III was the definitive low in the franchise, yet someone must have thought the series still had some potential. What other explanation could there possibly be for the existence of The Next Karate Kid?

Wait a minute. Next? Yep, Macchio's gone (at least he was smart enough to stop eventually), and his replacement is Hilary Swank (!), playing a troubled teenager (what else?) named Julie Pierce. Now, the girl has family issues. She also gets in trouble at school. Said school has a sadistic gym teacher (Michael Ironside). As it turns out, though, one of his students is actually a nice guy, and Julie falls for him. This gets her in bigger trouble than before, of course. Lucky for her, she is currently living with Mr. Miyagi (Morita), an old friend of her grandfather who happens to know how to get back at the bad guys.

All those factors ad up to seven clichés, and that's just a generic plot summary - imagine what the detailed scenes must be like! From beginning to end, The Next Karate Kid is a tired, flat and dull marathon of idiotic lines and set-ups. Swank does, thankfully, have the likes of Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby to redeem this disaster, but why did Morita accept to come back? He may have received an Oscar nomination for the first movie, and was quite enjoyable in the sequels, but has nothing to speak for him here - even the revival of the "wax on, wax off" gag is stillborn. As for Ironside, he is slightly better than Martin Kove and Thomas Ian Griffith in Part III, but that's hardly a stretch.

So, is this picture really that awful? Not exactly. There is one sequence that manages to achieve a weird beauty, but when the best bit in the whole film involves a group of Asian monks dancing as they hear pop music for the first time in their lives, it doesn't qualify as a recommendation to see the rest. Clearly, three sequels haven’t improved Miyagi’s English, but there is something bitchin’ about seeing a babe give a bully a good thwack. Not that girls will go see this or boys will care.
While in Boston to accept a special unit citation for the Japanese-American soldiers who fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, Mr Miyagi (Pat Morita) stays at the house of the wife of an old war buddy where he meets her granddaughter, 16-year-old Julie Pierce (Hilary Swank) who is angry at the world following the death of her parents in a car accident. He winds up staying at the Pierce house to take care of Julie while her grandmother vacations at Miyagi's house in California. After a rough start, Miyagi and Julie find they have something in common ...karate. The Next Karate Kid is the fourth movie in the Karate Kid series, preceded by The Karate Kid (1984) (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986) (1986), and(1989), all of which were based on scripts by screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Mark Lee wrote the script for The Next Karate Kid based on the characters created by Kamen. The Karate Kid movies have no relation to the DC Comics superhero also known as "Karate Kid". No. Daniel (Ralph Macchio) has presumably gone away to college. Mr Miyagi does mention him, however, when he tells Julie, after walking in on her while she's changing clothes, that he "used to live with boy...Daniel-san." Thereafter, he only alludes to Daniel when he comments, "Boy easier [than girl]." Macchio was 33 years old at the time The Next Karate Kid was filming. He has stated publicly that he was "not interested in becoming the Sylvester Stallone of Karate Kid movies." No particular time frame is given. Daniel is out of the picture, and Miyagi's only reference to him is in the past. In real time, the span between Karate Kid III (1989) and the Next Karate Kid (1994) is five years, a span that sounds reasonable. That phrase is uttered by Julie when she doubts that Miyagi can teach her anything. Morita was actually an American citizen, born in California of Japanese parents. To play the role of Mr Miyagi, he had to adopt a Japanese accent, since he spoke perfect English. Most likely not. Hawks of all kinds are protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which makes it unlawful for anyone to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell birds on the protected list. Anyone possessing a bird on the list, whether live or dead, must turn it over to someone who has a federal permit to handle such birds. After Ned (Michael Cavalieri) and his friends make their daring bungee jump from the gym rafters over the dance floor, Julie and Eric (Chris Conrad) decide to leave the prom, una

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