The Next Karate Kid
Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast
Venganza Media, Inc.
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2010
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In 1994 The Karate Kid tried to be the comeback kid in this soft rebooting of the series. Gone is the aging protagonist played by Ralph Macchio, and he has been replaced by future Academy Award winning actress Hillary Swank in her first starring role. And back is Mr. Miyagi with his wisdom and unlikely training methods. This film failed to catch on in theaters, but with a new reboot of The Karate Kid coming out next week was The Next Karate Kid an unappreciated classic? Listen in and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | The person with no forgiveness in heart, living even the worst punishment of that death. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Now Playings, the Karate Kid Retrospective series. |
| 0:30.0 | With the upcoming reboot starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, Brock Ornion Jacob will be looking back at all the Karate Kid movies, culminating in a weekend of release review of the new film. |
| 0:44.0 | You know, points are no point. You're dead meat. |
| 0:48.0 | These podcasts will contain spoilers and you can find a new podcast each week at NowPlayingPodcast.com. |
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| 1:03.0 | You're a pushy little bastard, ain't you? I like that. |
| 1:14.0 | Today we're talking about the next Karate Kid, starring Hillary Swank, Pat Morita, Michael Ironside, Constance Cowards, and Chris Conrad, directed by Christopher Kane. |
| 1:35.0 | This is Brock and thank goodness I made it back to the podcast today. I flew back today from the monastery just outside Boston. I didn't think I was going to make the podcast. |
| 1:45.0 | This is Jacob and I've been teaching my spiritual leaders to dance because if your spiritual leader can dance, they ain't worth being a spiritual leader. |
| 1:52.0 | Hi, this is Marjorie. I am a son-time host of NowPlaying. |
| 1:59.0 | So we have the girl Karate Kid and then we have the girl co-host too. |
| 2:03.0 | Well, that's what they did in the next Karate Kid is they just took out the boy. |
| 2:07.0 | This is the next NowPlaying Oddcast host. |
| 2:10.0 | Exactly. See, they took out the boy replaced it with a girl. So that's what's happened here. |
| 2:14.0 | Okay, then. At least we were warned on the poster. |
| 2:17.0 | Exactly. I mean, you knew what you were getting into. You knew there was a girl and there was no Ralph Machio in this whatsoever. |
| 2:25.0 | Okay. And this is Arnie. Bye. Bye. Bye. |
| 2:30.0 | I'm back for the next Karate Kid. |
| 2:33.0 | And so is Pat Marita who is the only holdover. That's called a transition folks in the business. |
| 2:38.0 | And so we're here to discuss the surprise fourth entry in the series after the Karate Kid part three. |
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