The movie hits the major film cliches:
- someone close to Jtro, the protagonist, dies during the competition
- Jtro quits competing and swears he'll never do it again
- a year later someone tracks him down in an out of the way place because things have gotten really bad in town
- Jtro starts training and during a music montage it's shown that he doesn't have the skill he used to
- Jtro's training starts to pay off, his moves are getting quicker
- the villain's girlfriend is tired of being smacked around and wants to be with Jtro
- Fighting, training, kidnapping and more fighting ensue
The movie is a parody and I'm all for a good parody. But it's a fine line between being a parody and being what you're attempting to parody. I wanted to like this but while I like the details, I don't like the film. It's a plus that it nails down the cliches, the film looks good and the Making of feature reveals that the filmmakers seem to be nice people. Plus I like the idea of what they're doing as well as their attitudes, but this just didn't work for me. I wasn't amused and ended up really disappointed.
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