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: Legends' Is Barely A Movie

The laziest example of IP management disguised as filmmaking I've ever seen.

Vince Mancini

Jun 02, 2025

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At a time when shortened theatrical windows, even for wildly successful films like Sinners, are a source of intense debate among movie-heads, it’s crazy to see a movie like Karate Kid: Legends debut in theaters. Everything about it screams “forgettable streamer,” from concept to story even down to the sets, which often don’t even meet the minimum standards of passability for a Nickelodeon sitcom.


How dire are things when you can’t plausibly evoke “New York Alley?” That’s one of the oldest sets in moviedom! You’d think it’d be possible to do without much money or trouble, but that would assume anyone involved here cared on a level beyond fulfilling the minimum basic requirements, and almost every frame of Karate Kid: Legends positively oozes “let’s just get this thing finished.”


Bad movies these days often wear their corporate mandates on their sleeves, and it doesn’t take genius to figure out what the IP goal was here. The Karate Kid franchise, after three sequels of diminishing returns from 1984 to 1994 (the last starring Hillary Swank, who I had a big crush on at the time), was acquired by Will and Jada Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, who attempted a reboot in 2010 with Jaden Smith as Daniel-san and Jackie Chan as Nü-Miyagi. That opened a whole can of worms considering Jackie Chan is Chinese and practices kung fu, while karate is Japanese, and press releases at the time proudly touted then-11-year-old Jaden Smith’s black belt in taekwondo, which is Korean. The movie was medium successful at the box office, if not exactly a phenomenon, and for whatever reason its planned sequels never quite panned out.


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