"Karate Kid: Legends" is a lot of film. More precisely, This heritage of "Karate Child" is two different movies tricky stitched together. Directed by Johnon Entwistl, "Legends" serves as a sequel to "Karate Child" in 1984 and the 2010 Restart/Remake with the same name starring Jaden Smith and Jackkeepy Han.

In "legends", the new "karate child" is not actually a complete impetus; In fact, he has a lot of experience in Kung Fu. Ben Wang Starswells like Lee Fong, who moves from the big city in a smaller place (well, well, he moves from Beijing to Newoufor), gets a girl's crush and makes an enemy of her violent karate-enthusiast ex-boyfriend. Except, there is more on this movie than that, which includes a bizarre undermine his new girlfriend's father's coach to use Kung Fu in a boxing contest.

Of course, Lee also enters a karate tournament because it would not be a movie "Karate Child" without one. Except, this time around, Lee also gets help from G -Jan at Jan And Daniel Laruso on Ralph McCio for some reason.

This latest bit is important because it means "Karate Child" (2010) and "Karate Kid: Legends" are now part of the Karate Kid Universe (1984), which has already expanded greatly over the last decade thanks to the spectacular Netflix series (formerly YouTube RED). The problem with "legends" is that Daniel Laruso should notAlthough it is the biggest sales point of the film. Worse still, its inclusion complicates the film's link with the larger franchise due to "Cobra Kai", which has just ended in early 2025.

But fans were not the only one concerned about how "karate Kid: Legends" would be tied to "Cobra Kai". Talking to Hollywood reporterMecchio admitted he was deeply worried about the film coming out before Cobra Kai ended, as the plan was originally. Directly to quote:

"I screamed constantly every day:" This film should come out after ("Cobra Kai") ends. And as soon as marketing gathered and realized that (the original date of its release in December 2024) will not benefit or (project), they have done the right thing (by delaying "legends" by May 2025).

"Cobra Kai" is, of course, a series of inheritance of the first three Karate Kid films. Realizing in real time 34 years after the 1984 All-Dolinian tournament from the first film of the first film, the show follows Johnoni's Johnoni Lawrence while trying to gather his life together and return Cobra Kai, this time as a force, as part of his mentoring mentor.

The show is not only the best thing to happen to the "Karate Kid" franchise for 40 years, but it is also one of the best examples of inheritance sequel done properly. At the same time, it is a great pseudo-remake of the 1984 film Karate Kid, with a new generation to take the flame of the old guard and the new karate child rising on this occasion. But above all, "Cobra Kai" is a phenomenal sequel to the stories and themes of the original "karate child" trilogy that returns virtually every character of those films, no matter how big or small (including some who had no names before). In short: "Cobra Kai" revitalized the "Karate Child" property and had an almost perfect end that paid for 40 years of karate-ing.

As such, "Karate Kid: Legends" met with skepticism from "Cobra Kai" fans from the time it was announced. After all, what can make a big screen feature that the show no longer did? Not like "Cobra Kai" there were no more season tournaments, epic street fights, anime -inspired, and even Jamesimes Bond -like villains, descending (literally) explosive fashion. The idea "legends" will ignore, and even Retcon Cobra Kai was concerned.

Hence, when the "legends" came out and It is the only big relationship with "Cobra Kai" was a comprehensive KMO At the very end of the film, she made about the incentive Koda.

"Karate Kid: Legends" should always be a disappointment for Cobra Kai fans. There was simply no chance of the film being able to be more satisfactory to the show, while working as a standalone story and a sequel to "Karate Child" in 2010. Well, "legends" are trying to share the difference by raising three years after the events of Cobra Kai, though the film itself never clarifies this. (It was only discovered in interviews before the film's release). This, in turn, makes McCio's concern even more important, because "legends" were initially to be announced before "Cobra Kai" was over, however, it was also followed by it, which would reject every tension from the last season of the series.

Even with the "legends" set up years after "Cobra Kai" and coming out after the final in the series, the link between projects is thoroughly disappointing. When we first meet Daniel in "Legends", he simply chilled out in the late house of Miyagi, which is iousubopitically deprived of students or classes (despite completing the show, making Daniel plan to remain active as Sensei).

Instead, "legends" are trying to justify returning to Daniel Laruso by introducing backstation that includes one of the ancestors of Miyagi traveling to China to learn Kung Fu from one of Jan's ancestors, making the right film about the story of Miyagi's inheritance. Except, none of this is necessary, as that idea was already covered wider in "Cobra Kai" (which brought more depth to G -Din Miyagi as a character in the process). It is one of the many reasons "legends" falling flat as the expansion of the "karate child" franchise. If nothing else, at least McCio came up and the film came out after "Cobra Kai" finished.