Reviews

This is what writers do when they run out of ideas. They have high schoolers wanting to get married. Nevermind that in the '80s and '90s this didn't happen, even in really conservative circles. I know, I grew up in those times among very conservative people. I knew of noone who wanted to do that so young. Still several shows presented this as typical even through the '90s. The writers are too old and behind the times sometimes. It's just completely unrealistic, and logisitically impossible at that age. It's also inconsistent with Carol's character, turning her into someone really flighty and unthinking. The only realistic thing was the parents arguing about it. Most episodes of this show are enjoyable but this is definitely an exception.

So I haven't been to a theatre in a year, and don't expect to ever do so again. Not out of fear, but out of wanting to avoid having to deal with all the new rules, which I assume to be permanent. So it was a nice surprise to see this, a new movie that promises to be entertaining, available for streaming. Anyway, it was well done. Some strange parts and questionable directing decisions but on the whole it was good. As someone who watched Tom and Jerry as a kid, I can appreciate this. Still not sure if I would've liked an entirely animated movie more as opposed to the combination of live action and animation, which seems to be the standard approach with movie adaptations of old cartoons in more recent years. The lead actress, the interim events manager, was charming. One other actress seen early on and later on looked so much like Justine Bateman that I was surprised it wasn't her. Animation was well done, with lots of nods to the old series. Overall entertaining. Worth seeing more than once. In any case, it's a reminder of a world not so long ago where things could be normal. I hope that won't be impossible to go back to.

I really wanted to like this show when it premiered. I grew up with the original which was very high quality in every respect, the drawings, animation, voices etc. So I was expecting this to be like that. Instead what they give us is a really cheaply made show. The drawings are crude and badly done, the animation doesn't flow like the original show. Its lame attempts at humor are much less timeless than the original's material. Even the voices sound like pale imitations of the originals. I even tried watching it again more recently more objectively, and I still think the same thing as I did when it first started. I have to agree with the other critical reviews on here. Disney can and should have done much better. If they can still do a good job on their animated movies then they shouldn't be so cheap and obviously not trying on their tv shows.

This remake is an ok movie and all right to watch if there's not much on tv. But the quality of the originals just isn't there in my opinion, and it's not as watchable or enjoyable as the original ones. It really should've had some more differences and a different title, then its legacy of essentially nullifying all the previous Karate Kid movies wouldn't have happened probably. Because it did so well at the box office, this movie's legacy is making it as if the previous Karate Kid movies never existed. You never see any of them on tv anymore, and they're much tougher to find new on dvd. Tough to get used to this being the only Karate Kid movie ever seen anymore but that's how it will always be now. The original Karate Kid movies (even the next Karate Kid) don't deserve that because they were really well made but that's what they've gotten in more recent years because of this remake. Rather sad.

Although I'm a woman, I feel this is really disproportionately rigged towards women with "luck". How else do women magically win 95% of the time? This doesn't happen in other shows. Annoying and it's extremely obvious. It seemed to be that way to a large extent with gsn's chain reaction too, although not as much to an extent as this show. Why can't they do a balanced game show like other companies?

In season 5 the writers really phoned everything in. They had 3 part stories dealing with history where the ending really made no sense like in the Lee Harvey Oswald. They had lots of things that were inconsistent with the rest of the series, like leaping just happening at random regardless of success or not. And then you had strange things like the evil leaper and this episode. This episode rehashes the previously most unpleasant episode of the show and makes it even more unpleasant by introducing the evil leaper into it and all the consequences from that. It becomes completely warped, extremely unpleasant to watch and a complete endurance. One of those episodes to watch once because it exists and then never again. I really don't know what the writers were thinking. They were resting on their laurels a little too much at this point.

I'm a big game show fan, and have liked most game shows through the years (not reality shows however). This one is terrible. It exploits people's greed which in most cases on this show far outweighs their common sense. The vast majority of contestants will keep going on with only 2 or 1 high amounts remaining on the board. They want to drive the deal up with the extreme risk that they'll hit one of the high amounts with the next case they pick. Or they have the completely baseless and empty belief that their case has the million or one of the high amounts. But then they hit the second to last high amount or the last high amount with the next case they pick and the deal goes way down. And then going to all the hassle and effort for appearing on the show isn't worth much to them after that. The deals can be low sometimes, but they're not bad and definitely worth taking as opposed to taking an enormous risk. Sometimes they get caught up in the excitement. Sometimes it's their idiotic family or friends encouraging them to keep going on. Foolish people making foolish decisions, it repeats so much. You wonder if the contestants have ever watched the show and seen others do the same stupid thing they're doing. Where do they find these contestants? I'm sure they go to Vegas and find the stupidest, most foolish people they can find, the people who go against all odds no matter what. The producers love them because they don't have to give away much money. However it's a painful watching experience. Enough people must've got sick of it for it to be cancelled, however it lives on in reruns on GSN unfortunately. We could have more classic game shows on the channel but there's unfortunately enough of a market left for this show for them to put it on a lot. Give this one a pass unless you like torturing yourself with depressing contestants.