The Next Karate Kid

Name: The Next Karate Kid
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Romance, Family
Released: September 9, 1994
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad, Chris Conrad, Constance Towers, Hilary Swank, Jim Ishida

1994

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 9, 1994 | PG

Starring: Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad, Chris Conrad, Constance Towers, Hilary Swank, Jim Ishida, Michael Cavalieri, Michael Ironside, Pat Morita, Rodney Kageyama, Walton Goggins

Summary: Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing; a troubled adolescent girl.

Director: Christopher Cain

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Sport, Romance, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 107 min

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Peter Stack

The Next Karate Kid' has all the makings of a terrible movie, but it never quite becomes one. One reason might be that cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs just loves a beautiful picture. [10 Sep 1994, p.E6]

Stephen Hunter

This film feels like a desperate attempt to squeeze a few last bucks out of what was once a very obliging cash cow. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

Leisurely and overly familiar pic should appeal to young teen girls, but won't be breaking any B.O. bricks with its bare hands. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

William Thomas

Almost a guilty pleasure. But not quite. Read full review

Marc Savlov

There's really nothing new here (as if anyone expected there would be), but it's a decent enough entry into the Karate Kid series, if you don't mind having seen it all done before, and better. Read full review

Steve Persall

The Next Karate Kid is equally pointless; a fourth installment of a series that stopped kicking and started creaking in round 2. [11 Sep 1994, p.18C]

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CenereMist

Sep 9, 2019

the previous 2 sequels are better, i missed Daniel LaRusso. But this movie is very fun anyway.

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AlexandreBarata

Apr 9, 2020

TL;DR: Is it a great movie, or it will go down in history as a classic? Hell no! Does it deliver, as a remake of a classic? More less. For this movie, Pat Morita got paired with Hilary Swank, instead of Ralph Macchio, which had paired with him during the 80's making one of the familyTL;DR: Is it a great movie, or it will go down in history as a classic? Hell no! Does it deliver, as a remake of a classic? More less. For this movie, Pat Morita got paired with Hilary Swank, instead of Ralph Macchio, which had paired with him during the 80's making one of the family friendly classics of the decade. Hilary Swank does her role without much of an hiccup (she acted way more convincingly than Ralph did), but the role is so weak it makes it hard to come above water. Pat Morita is Mr. Miyagi, and does Mr. Miyagi things, without anything fresh on the character.
The antagonists are a replica of the single minded ones from the 1st movie. And the story is, more less what you'd expect from The Karate Kid if it was done with a girl in mind for the "kid" role. It's full of clichés, it's overly long, and it's predictable, in all accounts.

Why a 5 then? It has some funny parts, it's a light family friendly movie, full of cliché good messages about friendship, goodness and life. Although as an original movie it fails in all accounts, as a remake, full of female empowering pitches for the teen girls it does its job, and although it seems it was recorded with '84 in mind, although being released one decade later, the message is timeless enough to be relevant in today standards still.

Not a must watch, but a pleasant watch for teen girls and boys alike.… Expand

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