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The Karate Kid II
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Pat E. Johnson, Bruce Malmuth, Eddie Smith
Directed By: John G. Avildsen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767861458
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0767861450
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2001-07-10
Running Time: 113
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-06-20
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/27/2008 Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg
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Summary: YOUR FEAR MAKE AIR STINK!
Comment: Following Daniel-San's (Macchio) triumphant, albeit incredibly improbable, victory at the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament, there is little time to celebrate. Mr. Miyagi (Morita) gets a letter from Okinawa informing him that his father is dying. He knows this is a potentially deadly situation because of an old grudge with his former best friend Sato. Nonetheless, Miyagi let's the recently dumped Daniel-San (it was only a matter of time before Elisabeth Shue realized she was dating a sissy) come along for the trip.
Upon arriving in Okinawa, Miyagi soon realizes that he has very little time. Not only will his father die very soon, but his former best friend Sato - who incidentally has a watermelon for a head - wants to fight him to the death. It turns out that Miyagi left his homeland eons ago because both he and Sato liked the same girl, Yuki. Rather than fighting for her, Miyagi took the pacifist route and left the country. In Sato's eyes this was disgraceful, and an insult to his honor. Sato has held the grudge ever since, and has used that anger to fuel his drive - he owns everything from the construction company to the brothel. For some reason, however, he was never able to convince Yuki to be with him...or work at the brothel.
Meanwhile, Daniel-San is still a whiner who gets bullied by anyone with a pulse. In this case, he gets bullied by Chosun, Sato's best student. Chosun is a vicious, callous karate expert with a 18-inch waist, who manages to oversee illegal gambling schemes in his spare time. He's ten-times the goon that Johnny from KKI was. I am convinced the main reason Chosun despises Daniel-San is the fact that Daniel-San is nearly in the panties of Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita), a town cutie, before he's even been there a week..
All of this sets up the final battle scenes, where Miyagi faces Sato in a bizarre twist of fate, and Daniel-San must face Chosun. This is where I have a problem. While I especially appreciated how the preposterously telegraphed "Crane Technique" was so easily dispatched by Chosun - yet another lead villian who would murder Daniel-San in real life - I was quickly disappointed to see that the new finishing move was even more ridiculous, and Chosun loses his honor as he transforms from a guy who simultaneously beat up 5 soldiers into a complete moron who can't see, duck, dodge, or block any of the 47 consecutive punches Daniel-San applies to his face. This is incredibly difficult to digest, especially considering the ease with which Chosun pummelled Daniel-San in every previous encounter, making him look like a spineless toddler in many instances.
Nevertheless, this movie is a classic, and we get to cheer Daniel-San's scrawny carcass onto yet another victory.
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Summary: A Phenomenal Followup
Comment: I thought the 1st "Karate Kid" was excellent, and I think II is an EXCELLENT followup. In Part 1, we learned about Daniel and his situation. 2 takes it to the next level. After meet Daniel, we soon learn more about Myagi. (To the next level!) Myagi learns that his father (still in Japan) is very ill. While this is hard enough of a trip to make, Myagi realizes that he also has to risk running into an old friend who has an unresolved dispute with him. (Great expansion of myagi's past!)
Daniel of course feels that it is his duty to go with Myagi and be there for Myagi as Myagi was there for him in Part 1. (Great growth from Daniel!) Daniel and Myagi arrive in Japan. The photography there is beautiful!
I may add that in Part 1, Daniel learned karate. Now he is learning culture. (Better still!) Myagi runs into his enemy (once friend) Sato. Naturally, the tensions arise. Sato wants to fight Myagi over a conflict that happened many years ago that put his honor into question. Myagi would rather let bygones be bygones. Despite Sato's coldness and brutality, we never forget that he has some redeeming points. And we are probably hoping that these 2 will reconcile, rather than fight.
Sato's # 1 student Chozen persues Daniel in hopes of forcing Myagi to fight Sato. While Daniel triumphed over the Cobra Kais in Part 1, Chozen proves himself to be a notably worse threat. The Cobra Kais were nasty people, but they weren't willing to kill Daniel. Chozen is. (Nice rise of tension!) I may also add that Chozen would trash Johnny, Kreese, Terry Silver, Mike Barnes, or Colonel Dugan.
If I say much more, I'll probably ruin the movie for those of you who have not seen it. But I can say that the 'unseen hand' comes in and makes some reconciliation possible. Daniel also goes from fighting in a tournamentto a battle where the stakes are life and death.
I call this sequel phenomenal, because not only does it avoid repeating part 1, it takes things to the next level and provides interesting new surprises.
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Summary: KARATE KID PART 2 IN NOT DOO DOO!
Comment: This is a pretty good sequel! It doesn't quite have the magic of the first film, but it does have a beautiful new setting in Okinawa. Macchio and Morita are great again in this "Rocky" type underdog movie. Like "Rocky" the sequels are kind of formula, but very watchable 3 1/2 stars!
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Summary: rumble in Hokido
Comment: This was the second movie in the series to be released. It was made about two year after the first movie came out in the middle 1984. For those of you that did not see the first movie there is a briefy flash back lasting about 5 to ten minutes at the beginnig showing some of the footage from the first movie. Daniel travels to Onknowa were he gets involved in a brutal feud between mr Manyagie and his rivial who trained under his sick father. Shortly after the father dies of an illness the rivial and his sons due several nasty thins to presuade MR. Mayege to fight him. Finally after threaten to sell the land and destroy all the homes he excepts to fight him at midnight. Can Mr. Maygga make peace with his old nemisis and bring honor back to the Maygga family. There is also a special collector version of albums which contains the musice for all four films. However this cd limited edition set is super, super, super, rare only two copies are avilable on Amazon used and the selling price for these two copies is about 90 to 120 dollars with the shipping fee include. If you like this I recommend you buy the collection unless you want to by them seperately one at a time. I recommend you try not to get karate kids part III and part four one disk by themselve with out one and two becaue the cheaptest you can get the last two movies with out the first 2 movies is about $40. Will Daniel save the day again and resolve the feud find out in the thrilling conclusion.
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Summary: Best of the Karate Kid movies
Comment: This was the only movie in this series I wanted on DVD. This movie is very
romantic, and the exotic setting just makes it even more enjoyable. I
actually liked the movie because of the romantic part of the story rather than the fight scenes. Great DVD!
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