in 1984 and the karate kid have some charm to it and even if it be little more than a poor man rocky . ala and producer jerry weintraub fail to realize it be best to leave the story at the point where it have end and and convince ralph macchio and pat morita to make an extra effort to turn the film into a trilogy . part iii be the definitive low in the franchise and yet someone must have think the series still have some potential . what other explanation could there possibly be for the existence of the next karate kid . wait a minute . next . yep and macchio go ( at least he be smart enough to stop eventually ) and and his replacement be hilary swank ( . ) and play a troubled teenager ( what else . ) name julie pierce . now and the girl have family issue . she also get in trouble at school . say school have a sadistic gym teacher ( michael ironside ) . a it turn out and though and one of his student be actually a nice guy and and julie fall for him . this get her in big trouble than before and of course . lucky for her and she be currently live with mr. miyagi ( morita ) and an old friend of her grandfather who happen to know how to get back at the bad guy . all those factor ad up to seven clichés and and that just a generic plot summary imagine what the detailed scene must be like . from begin to end and the next karate kid be a tired and flat and dull marathon of idiotic line and set ups . swank do and thankfully and have the like of boy don not cry and million dollar baby to redeem this disaster and but why do morita accept to come back . he may have receive an oscar nomination for the first movie and and be quite enjoyable in the sequel and but have nothing to speak for him here even the revival of the wax on and wax off gag be stillborn . a for ironside and he be slightly good than martin kove and thomas ian griffith in part iii and but that hardly a stretch . so and be this picture really that awful . not exactly . there be one sequence that manage to achieve a weird beauty and but when the best bit in the whole film involve a group of asian monk dance a they hear pop music for the first time in their life and it doesn not qualify a a recommendation to see the rest .