![]() ![]() Dugan leads an outright evil version of the ROTC at this Boston school, and he obviously has his tendrils in the administration and the local police because he gets away with everything, although the how and the why is never explained. (His age is not listed on IMDB, but I’d guess he’s about 40 at the time of this movie.) Ned is the top student of Dugan (Michael Ironside, who deserves a big paycheck for this embarrassing role). Ned (Michael Cavalieri) has to be the rapiest high school villain ever captured on screen, and the actor isn’t merely older than school age he has clearly lived a substantial life. Those school bullies are something else, though. Julie is sullen whereas Daniel was headstrong, but once she becomes enthusiastic about Miyagi teaching her karate so she can stand up to her school bullies, we get the familiar training sequences and tidbits of Eastern wisdom. But “The Next Karate Kid” goes on to say nothing about the difference between teaching a boy or a girl, because there really is no significant difference. When Miyagi accidentally enters Julie’s room while she’s changing, he apologizes profusely and then mutters that it’s going to be harder to teach a girl. ![]() Miyagi and future acting star Hilary Swank as the titular Julie, it turns out to be a passable kids’ movie.īut screenwriter Mark Lee and director Christopher Cain have nothing fresh to add to the saga. Thanks to the legendary Pat Morita as Mr. Ten years after the first “Karate Kid” and five years after the Daniel LaRusso trilogy wrapped, the studio tries to wring some more blood from the stone with “The Next Karate Kid” (1994). ![]()
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