Talkin' RiffTrax: KARATE TIGER 2 (Patreon)

Greetings, Traxians! Your old pal Erik here to announce a brand new riff to kick off your weekend.

Master martial arts director Corey Yuen (The Super Cops, The Transporter) is back (yay!) along with Cynthia Rothrock (double yay!) in the RiffTrax Catalog with our latest release, Karate Tiger 2! It's technically a sequel to No Retreat, No Surrender, but containing NONE of the original characters or plot points!

(I propose a new word: "me-quel" - a movie made as a sequel in name only, where it's really all about the director making something just for fun and/or ego.... although in this case, I'm not complaining!)

Scott is looking for his old buddy Mac, who taught him kickboxing ten years ago when Scott would have been about nine years old. The search takes him through exotic locations in Vietnam and Cambodia, where he kicks guys and blows objects up, sometimes by kicking them. Along the way he meets Cynthia Rothrock, who would just appear on the sets of '80s martial arts films anytime someone looked in a mirror and said “Roundhouse” three times.

Scott’s girlfriend, Sulin, is kidnapped by Russian commandos. These are not your standard commandos; these are the types of commandos who have an alligator pit. That’s right, an alligator pit. Nobody does anything half-assed in Karate Tiger 2, except for maybe integrating any characters or plot points from the movie you’re theoretically making a sequel to. 

Mike, Kevin and Bill do some more talkin' about this new feature-length riff. Watch this episode of Talkin' RiffTrax in the player or download it below. And use the coupon code ROTHROCK to take a Traxian-only discount of 5% off, for a limited time.

Lastly, congrats to our Ultra Traxian member Jack Beckman for this winning caption to the below still from the movie:

"OK, ok, I'll buy some Girl Scout cookies!"

Back with more soon!

Erik