Wonderful character development!

An action-packed slog

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The Karate Kid (1989) was a cheesy saturday morning cartoon thatdebuted on N.B.C. The cartoon was real hokey and I didn't stick with it (the phony voices had something to do with it). The plots made part threelook innovative. Man, I thought I was dreaming that this show ever existeduntil I saw it on this site. I knew I wasn't hallucinating! Like most 80'snostalgia nothing was worth remembering and this series is one of them.Bad cartoon spun off of a dead in the water franchise. Nothing torecommend (unless you're a masochist).