Ralph McCio had one large request for a karate child: myths

“Karate Kid: Legends” is a large collection of movies. More specifically, Legacy “Karate Kid” is two different films sewn together. It was directed by John Eintistl, “Myths” as a supplement to “The Karate Kid” for the year 1984 and restart/re -edition 2010 with the same name starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

In “Legends,” Karate Kid “is not in fact completely weak; in fact, he has a lot of experience in Kong Fu. Ben Wang plays the role of Lee Fung, who moves from the big city to a smaller place (well, well, moves from Beijing to New York), gets crushing a girl, and comes out an enemy from her former former karate boyfriend. Except for that, there is more than this movie, and this includes a plot A strange sub -training on his new girlfriend’s training to use Kung Fu in a boxing match.

Of course, Karate also enters me because it will not be the movie “Karate Kid” without one. Except this time, LI gets the help of each Chan’s MR. Han and Daniel Laroso of Ralph McCio for some reason.

This last part is important because it means that both “The Karate Kid” (2010) and “Karate Kid: Legends” are now part of the world of “Karate Kid” (1984), which has already has already dramatically over the past decade thanks to the amazing Netflix series (which was previously red on YouTube Red) “Cobra Kai”. The problem of “myths” is that it does not need Daniel Laroso at allAlthough it is the largest selling point for the film. Worse than that, its inclusion complicates the film’s relationship with the greatest privilege due to “Cobra Kai”, which just ended in early 2025.

But the fans were not the only ones who were concerned about how “Karate Kid: Legends” connects “Cobra Kai”. Talk to Hollywood ObserverMacchio admitted that he was deeply concerned about the appearance of the film before the end of “Cobra Kai”, as it was originally the plan. To quote him directly:

“I was crying constantly every day:” This movie should come out after the end of (“Cobra Kai”). “Once the marketing meets and realized that (the date of the original release in December 2024) will not benefit from them (the project), they did the right thing (by delaying“ myths ”to May 2025).

“Cobra Kai”, of course, is an ancient successive series for the first three films “Karate Kid”. In actual time, 34 years after the 1984 Karate starring, Johnny Lawrence from William Zaba follows his life together and returns the Cobra Kai, this time as a power for good, as part of his efforts to direct a new child in Karate in the form of Megue Maridize.

The show is not the best thing for the “Karate Kid” privilege for 40 years, but also one of the best examples of an old complement that has been properly accomplished. At the same time it is the 1984 Karate Kid movie, with a new generation that takes the flame from the old guard and a new Karate child rising to this occasion. But above all, “Cobra Kai” is a tremendous continuation of the original “Karate Kid” stories and topics that restore almost every character from these films, regardless of its large or small size (including some who had not had names previously). In short: “Cobra Kai” reactivated the “Karate Kid” feature and had almost an ideal end, which was worth 40 years of karate.

As such, “Karate Kid: Legends” was suspected of “Cobra Kai” fans from the moment it was announced. After all, what can the big screen feature that the show was not doing already? It is not like “Cobra Kai” that had no seasonal long championships, a fight in the epic streets, or the boredoms inspired by animation, or even the bad guys who resemble James Bond who are (literally) explosive costumes. The idea of ​​”myths” ignored or even Retcon “Cobra Kai” was a source of salt anxiety.

Thus, when “myths” came out and The only big relationship for “Cobra Kai” was a big veil At the end of the movie, it was made for frightening code.

“Karate Kid: Legends” has always been a disappointment for “Cobra Kai” lovers. Simply put, there was no opportunity for the film to be able to link the show satisfactory to the show while it was also working as an independent story and “Karate Kid” 2010. (This was only revealed in the interviews before the movie was released.) This, in turn, makes Macchio more healthy, because “myths” were supposed to be released in the first place before “Cobra Kai” ended after that, which would have emptied any tension from the final season of the series.

Even with the determination of “myths” after years of “Cobra Kai” and the exit after their conclusion series, the relationship between projects is completely disappointing. When we meet Daniel for the first time in “Legends”, it is simply chilling in the late Mr. Miaji’s home, and he himself is free of students or classrooms (despite the end of the presentation, showing that Daniel is planning to stay active as a sense).

Instead, “Legends” is trying to justify Daniel La Roso’s return by offering a background to one of the ancestors of Miaji who travel to China to learn kung fu from one of the ancestors of Han, making the actual film a story about the legacy of Miaji, which moves to the next generation. Except, nothing of this is necessary, as this same idea had already covered widely in “Cobra Kai” (which brought a greater depth to Mr. Miaji as a character in this process). It is one of the many “Legends” reasons, as the Karate Kid concession. If there is nothing else, at least, Macchio split its way and the movie came out after the “Cobra Kai”.