While The Karate Kidis an icon of 1980s cinema, its sequels have long held a far less desirable reputation. After Daniel LaRusso famously defeated Johnny Lawrence with the crane kick in the final ...

The Karate Kid Part II walks the tricky line that all sequels have to navigate: it can’t just be a rehash of the original, but it can’t be too different, either (M3GAN 2.0 learned that lesson the hard ...