#48fIce on Mars - The Karate Kid(Total Points: 20 Number of Lists: 1 Highest Ranking: #6 LucasM)


An old man ushers a naive young boy into manhood. Wait, that sounds perverted. Okay, an old man instructs an impressionable young boy in the ways of solving problems with violence. Um...no. A wise old karate instructor gets a boy to do his yardwork for free so...dammit! This is hard!
This movie is most known for: This movie, and sneaking into Porky's, helped teach young boys the fine art of waxing off. Showing kids that old people aren't useless. They might teach you how to kick people in the face.
Noted riffs:
I don't know any. Please post some and I will add them here.
About the riff: I will have Michael T. Bradley let you in on a little secret:
This was riffed by Ari Dennis, Scix Maddix, J. Wilford Neville with "The Wheat Farmer," riffed by Scix Maddix & myself
Written by myself, J. Wilford Neville & Scix Maddix; "Wheat Farmer" written by Scix Maddix & myself
This is paradoxically my favorite of the feature lengths we've done, even though I think I'm a better voice actor than riff writer, so it should really be my least favorite. But not being a voice actor freed me up to be a director more, and I think I got some really great performances out of everybody here. Not that everyone isn't just naturally funny, but as head writer there are times that you want things done a certain way, etc. I think the most fun here was doing Jason's synch lines, because they were just so ridiculous, and it was nice to work on a project that took like ... half an hour rather than FOURTEEN TAKES OF 45 MINUTES OF VOYAGER.
Not much else to say about it, except that about 25% in we found out they were remaking Karate Kid, then somewhere near release date we found out Rifftrax were doing KK3, so we were like, HOLY CRAP THIS WILL OUTSELL EVERYTHING EVER!!! Of course it's still one of our weakest sellers.
I agree with one criticism: there should've been less gay Johnny & more dumb Johnny. But seriously, again, this is one of those 'you should've seen THE ORIGINAL script ...' I also think the climactic karate tournament could have been tweaked a bit more, but there was SO MUCH in it the first run through that I cut down a lot ... then I realized that the climax really does tie up like a BILLION loose threads in visual manners, and the viewer's mind has to be free to process both that and the riffs, so I cut down even MORE ... but I fear it's now a little TOO empty. But it's these sort of things that drive you crazy as an editor.
Available on Netflix Instant? No.
Purchase:
http://quiptracks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=22http://www.rifftrax.com/iriffs/ice-mars/ice-mars-vs-karate-kidSample: Couldn't find one.