The relative failure of The Karate Kid Part II should have taught its producers a thing or two.

But no. This comic-book-style second sequel gives us another challenge, another girlfriend and another fight at the end that proves a complete anti-climax.

The villains from the first Karate Kid (plus a bigger villain) swear vengeance on 'that old dojo and the punk kid' (that's still 'Pat' Morita and a now slightly overweight Ralph Macchio).

'I'm gonna make them suffer for what they did to you,' swears villain number one. 'And suffer. And suffer.

You know what the kid's gonna learn from me? Fear in his mind. And pain in his body.'

All of which pain and suffering can be undergone by viewers subjecting themselves to this flabby and often laughable straggler in the series.

A veritable seven-stone weakling of a film.