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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
THE KAROCKY KID
THE KARATE KID (1984)
dir: Jon G. Avildsen
THE KAROCKY KID
MAD #253, March 1985
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) just moved from New Jersey to California with his mother (Randee Heller) and immediately gets picked on by the kids at his new school, but starts a romance with Ali (Elisabeth Shue), which infuriates her ex-boyfriend Johnny (William Zabka) even more.
Daniel gets sent to ask the handyman Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) for help with the apartment, sees him leading a simple life trimming bonsai trees and trying to catch a fly with chopsticks. Danny reluctantly attends the school Halloween dance and gets back at Johnny by spraying him in the bathroom. Johnny and his friends chase him and are about to beat him up but Mr. Miyagi shows up out of nowhere and single-handedly knocks them out (imagine a movie being made today of an adult beating up a bunch of teenagers). Daniel goes to check out the local dojo to learn karate but is turned off by the militarism of their instructor and is scared that Johnny is a student. He asks Mr. Miyagi to each him karate who agrees. They go back to the dojo to try and convince Kreese (Martin Kove), the instructor there, to persuade his students to lay off Daniel. Kreese agrees that they will if Daniel wins the tournament.
The training Daniel goes through involves waxing Mr. Miyagi's cars and painting his fences. These turn out to be karate lessons, having taught Daniel how to move his hands and arms. At the tournament, he is required to have a black belt and wears a fake one to get in. He and Ali have been breaking up and getting back together, her parents have been trying to get her back with Johnny, but she and Daniel are now together with her cheering him on when he wins. This ends with Rocky as the coach because this movie was always said to be derivative of the Rocky movies.
This parody was part of a trio of movies reviewed by Siskel and Ebert (Sissy and Ebore), which is why they show up at the end.
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