Karate Kids, Ranked

No one could have guessed that when a scrawny kid from New Jersey moved to California with his mom, we’d still be talking about it four decades later. But that’s exactly what happened with The Karate Kid, the hit 1984 movie starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The inspirational sports tale spawned two sequels over the next five years and a third one five years after that. Things then went cold at the dojo for almost 15 years until Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith revived the franchise for their son Jaden with Jackie Chan in the mentor role. That 2010 remake was the biggest hit of the bunch, by a significant amount, but nothing immediately came of it. Instead, fans had to wait almost another decade for the show Cobra Kai, which continued the story from the original films in a whole new format. That show became a mega hit on Netflix, and finally, in 2022, Sony Pictures announced it was bringing The Karate Kid back to the big screen, not just with Jackie Chan, but Ralph Macchio too. ... Read full article.