SPOILERS forward for Karate Child: Legends, now enjoying in theaters.
Karate Child: Legends has been excessive on my checklist relating to 2025 film releases, however since I first heard about it, I’ve been inquisitive about the way it could or could not have an effect on issues after the Cobra Kai finale earlier this yr. Now that it’s in theaters (with its personal popcorn bucket too), I can formally affirm that it doesn’t battle with or actually reference Cobra Kai… that’s, till Ralph Macchio and William Zabka exhibit their superb chemistry as Daniel and Johnny throughout the post-credits scene!
After six seasons of Cobra Kai, I believe Karate Child: Legends made the suitable determination to not get into the collection’ lore. I liked seeing Macchio work together with Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han – who informed us he nonetheless does his personal stunts, by the way in which. However I used to be additionally completely geeking out when Zabka confirmed up on the finish to present the very best dad joke. He urged Daniel Russo open a pizza place referred to as “Miyagi Dough”, and it had me questioning if the explanation there’s a pizza place in Legends in any respect was for that joke. Right here’s how Jonathan Entwistle responded:
No, it isn’t. You already know, plenty of that sequence was totally improvised, so we had been similar to, ‘Let’s simply go.’ We had the Miyagi home, we had the solid, and we had been similar to, ‘OK, let’s simply movie some nice jokes.’ And I used to be like, ‘Come on guys, I actually need a zinger for the ultimate line of the film. Let’s go.; So we had been similar to throwing all this stuff round and clearly there is a rapport, so it actually labored effectively.
There you have got it! The joke is so humorous that I wouldn’t have blamed the manufacturing if ig impressed the entire plotline concerning Ben Wang’s Li Fong forming a relationship with a family-owned New York pizza place. Nevertheless, Entwistle stated the joke got here out of some high quality time between Macchio and Zabka once they went forward and filmed the scene between the 2 of them.
Because the director shared, when he put them collectively for the scene the place Macchio receives a pizza from the opposite aspect of the U.S., he didn’t even know precisely what the 2 would say to one another, however was in search of a “zinger” to finish the film on. These two undoubtedly delivered! Get it… delivered? And the post-credits scene undoubtedly appears like a pleasant little nod to Cobra Kai followers, who’ve been tuning into the Karate Child spinoff for years, however have by no means seen the unique fighters from the primary of the Karate Child motion pictures on the massive display screen since then.
It’s a enjoyable little second that offers followers a bit of style of the pair’s chemistry, particularly after the finale of Cobra Kai lastly had them changing into mates relatively than having but one other rematch. Except for that, it feels just like the ending decides to maintain issues mild and open-ended for each Ben Wang’s Li Fong, Daniel and Johnny and Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han with out particularly teasing something.