![]() Miyagi opens a small bonsai business – apparently without planning – the last gasp of small business in a town being overrun by Griffith’s Reaganomics exploitation. ![]() An older woman stops Daniel and Miyagi to note the massive complex taking over her neighborhood, pushing her out she’s never seen again. The final shot of Daniel and Miyagi embracing means nothing because this all happened before So vain, he even spends hours training Daniel to lose, manipulating and injuring the kid who three movies in, needs to know better. He bathes in tiny gold rooms, wears exotic clothes, and funds an entire line of dojos because he can. Thomas Ian Griffith seems to come from the animated version rather than live action, a representative of ‘80s excess. Insert the comical antagonist – unintentionally so – who laughs like a cartoon villain. ![]() There’s nowhere else for this series to go. For the returning Miyagi (Pat Morita), he’s decking out bonsai trees and spinning an occasional whiff of morality. Karate Kid Part III retreads the original, rescinding the lessons Daniel (Ralph Macchio) absorbed in two movies prior. The lesson there is how little The Karate Kid offers when stuck in formula. Miyagi around the world, punching their way through goons each week. The animated adaption sent Daniel Larusso and Sensei Mr. ![]() By 1989, Karate Kid’s franchise appeal reached Saturday mornings.
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