A Karate Christmas Miracle - The Cinema Snob 

I take back everything I ever said about Neil Breen's movies not making any sense. Never in my life did I ever think I would see a whimsical Christmas movie inspired by a real mass shooting!

"I'm going to get my black belt before Christmas." - kid who is a yellow belt at the beginning of the movie mere days before Christmas "That's not how getting a black belt works." - literally anyone who has ever trained in any martial art ever

“Dad was in the movie theater making a Constitutional argument about guns.” Wait, what? You can’t just dump that without an explanation!

"I need a drink." That line explains the whole thought process of this movie, actually...

I like how the “Karate” is just kids drunk wrestling

I need to see your reaction to "Christmas in Handcuffs" - it's honestly like someone took one of those kidnapped/held hostage romance WattPad stories and draped it in the skin of a Hallmark movie!

Of course Eric Roberts is in this! I’m convinced he’s doing these movies to troll people while getting paid for it. Quite ingenious if you think about it

Eric Roberts is a strange guy. He acts in anything from blockbusters to amateur garbage. Fascinating.

This is what happens when a sociopath writes a Christmas movie and had his mass shooter fanfic inserted to make it movie length.

"Santa Claus is guilty of nothing!!!" That's 'cos he was in Austria during the war, that's why.

Brad? Has anyone told you that you are their hero? Well? You're my hero for watching these movies and not spontaneously combusting and dying. I'm having a difficult time getting through these clips without feeling a quadruple aneurysm coming on. My eyes are almost in a permanent eye roll every time the clips are on my screen. You have the patience of a saint.

Wow. I just...wow. I applaud you for bringing these crazy ass movies to light.

It's the crossover between Karate Kid, Home Alone & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close that no one asked for.

The stock-footage return of Kung-Tai Ted?? This is the BEST Christmas EVER!!

I can’t complain about you not doing a Rise of Skywalker tie-in episode; this movie feels like it was written by someone who thinks Disney had Carrie Fischer killed to sell more Star Wars tickets

holy shit.. this movie's clips were actually making me angry. not because because i disagreed or anything but because it was challenging me to make sense of what was happening.

How much time passes in this movie? It seems like Jesse went from a yellow belt to a black belt in a week and a half, which of true, means he went to a terrible McDojo and his belt is worthless.

Seeing the Snob in a karate outfit is making me think that there could be a timeline where he is the karate miracle kid and Pierre Kirby would show up at the end.

"Applesauce is the new Jell-o." Yeah, and that gum you like is going to come back in style.

Wow, "Cries of the Unborn" straight up sound like the title of a horror movie

That's right, that raving old blonde lady was a Playboy playmate...

"Dinner's getting cold" "It's always cold mom" *BURN*

I like your onesie. Then again, I've liked Olaf them.

Well this is a way to start my day.

Why does that Blonde Professor act like She's being played by Kate McKinnon in an snl sketch.

That kid went from a yellow belt to a black belt in the span of 5 days! Jeez, what an awful dojo.

Did IT reawaken when the theater mass shooting of 2012 occurred? They mention a clown and that's usually when Pennywise reawakens; during a hate crime. Also, 2012 is 27 years after IT's defeat by the adult losers in 1985. Coincidence, I think not!

Saying Eric Roberts "Starred" in this movie is like saying the Angels With Dirty Souls guy "Starred" in Detective Pikachu.

Drugs was indefinitely involved to make this film.

3:00 Did this kid just mansplain to his mother how his sensei is a woman? Priceless.

I refuse to believe this was a thing I saw. I think I just had a seizure for 25 mins and just saw a series of un connected images and sound. JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

That professor going on tangents is like me at work ranting about random things

Drunk? This friggin' movie's on bath salts. And how do I get the feeling that said bath salts only get Ken to "normal?"

The dad was hiding behind the camera the whole time with a fake moustache?

As soon as Brad said who had made this movie, my reaction to it was: “Oh god! It’s this guy again.” Having watched this movie now though; it actually makes sense that this movie is from the guy who wrote the movie The Life Zone. You would have to be that crazy already to make this type of a Christmas movie.

So Julie is if a Kate McKinnon character gained sentience and started living it's own life.

Forbidden Words huh? So, she's saying she wanted to say something more racist, but the movie wouldn't allow it?

"A consstutional arGYUment about gunsss"

How the fuck is that kid advancing belts so quickly? Everything else I can believe, but *THIS* is pure fantasy!

So daddy left because his son wasn’t a black belt. Okay

"I am officially cutting this review off...!" It's a true Christmas miracle. wtf even is this movie?!

5:11 the face of someone who wishes they were in a better movie then this one

I am truly, legitimately asking: What is happening in this movie?

A whole film that's like the snuff film in "Last Ounce of Courage?" Sold!

So... What is the movie about? No, really. It's about a psychic who see the future, a soul trapped in a purgatory "Because" and a kid learning karate? This movie has less karate than Jaden Smith's Karate Kid Movie... And it was about Kung fu

Ok, movie references/flashbacks in order of appearance: 0:42: The Shining 01:07: Last Ounce of Courage 01:11. The Associate 01:42: Scrooged 02:32: The good Son 02:30: The X Factor(TV series)/ Rocky Horror Picture Show 04:05: Dick Tracy/1960's Batman series 05:02: drunk grandma trying to be hip 05:46: every bad kid actor. Ever. 05: 48: Hook 06:49: every scarred/traumatized on the job detective flic ever 07:49: Home improvement 07:50: IT 08:34: drunk Bastian Bux(Neverending Story)doing a stoned Lisa Simpson impression 09:40: Faulty Towers/To catch a Yeti 12:42: actual..jawdrop 15:11: Suspiria 16:13: BuzzFeed and about a three dozen other associations I can't bother to think about. Just...whatever...

The kid did it. Black belt represents the eternal darkness his victims fall into after he murders them. The college professor looks like a hippy got merged with a Gelfling.

So this was the sixth Karate Kid movie

WOW! This is both the greatest hidden Christmas gem and the best "Karate Kid" sequel ever!

It wouldn't be a true holiday season without a headache, confusion, irritation and ennui. Thank you Cinema Snob for providing all that in this entertainingly condensed format. Now I can skip the family reunion (unfortunately not a movie, but real life).

Seeing these sets made me think of Asylum's Paranormal Entity and that made me wonder if Asylum films were actually not bad enough to be on this show.

Happy birthday! My fav you tuber!

I would love to see a movie about someone kicking ass during Christmas

YES. This will make my Day~

Someone should give you an internet oscar for putting up with all these bad movies. 😂

6:31 I think this is the same stock music I hear in YT horror channels like "Beyond Creepy"

Abby) "Applesauce is the new Jello" In the same meeting Jerry Smith) "Hungry for Apples"

So the dad's soul was trapped inside the board and the son freed him by breaking it? What?

I know anything can be made. But did these people ever consider if they should?

And here I was expecting a karatesploitation Christmas movie. How naive I was... then again, it’s still a great review as usual!

I like how the karate kid just took up karate and is headed for a black belt months away. What a prodigy. I think that would be the more interesting movie.

This movie is easier to watch with applesauce shots.

To be fair that University Lecturer was a Hell of a lot more sober than most of mine... maybe stoned lecturers are a British thing... or a Classics thing... or a British Classics thing...

At the end of the movie, when it cuts to black, I half expected it to cut to Crazy Fat Ethel waking up on the couch.

As dumb, weird and crap as The Life Zone was, that movie at least had better looking cinematography? This really does look like “A Talking Cat vision”.

WTF is going on this movie? Ed Wood made better movies consisting of outtakes and stock footage!

4:34- I already wish this movie was either The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, or Joker. 5:21- ......You're Kate McKinnon in disguise, aren't you? Oh, come on. There's always room for Jell-O.

You know what would be a real Karate Christmas miracle? If we got to check in on what Kung Tai Ted's up to nowadays.

Alt title: A Very Videodrome Christmas.

I never thought there would be a film that makes me question my viewing choices, but now there is. I have to say I have never been more confused about what this film is actually about than ever. I mean just Wow true insanity film right here.

The two things I associate with Christmas, lights and Karate.

Good review Bradicon.

HELL YEAH!! Brad this was one of your BEST episodes! Funny shit from you and this fuck-all of a movie.

Amazing, Eric Roberts in this movie looks like the spitting image of John Kricfalusi. It added a whole new level of tension to this movie's story.

Awesome vid as usual 👍. Would you consider reviewing more Del Vecchio films like the 'cries of the unborn'?

The only way this could've worked is if the husband had amnesia and stumbled out of the theater and got lost starting a new life elsewhere

That's the best title for anything everw

1:19 who cares about Eric Roberts being in this when you have *Martin Kove!* 3:15 *WOW!* I had to take some Dramamine to combat the dizziness from that edit!

Are you going to do a Cinema Snob on Joker's Poltergeist now?

I'm very disappointed by the lack of explicit confirmation that this is the Karate Kid universe and that harassing random people via interrupting empty movie theater showings is just what John Kreese got up to after Terry Silver sent him on vacation to Tahiti.

I just feel so sad for Eric Roberts. Julia is an A-Lister, Emma is mid-tier, and Eric Roberts never seems to be able to advance past C-list.

Wait so Onision was cribbing off THIS movie for influence for his latest inceltastic book. Makes sense.

For some added fun go and read Ken del Vecchio IMDB bio, priceless!

Need more kung taii ted in my live

To be fair, a Christmas movie with a killer clown it's a neat idea.

Snob's right about the Orange Belt. That's as far as I've ever made it, and 30 years later I still have that same 2x4 up my ass.

"Salt and sand are hazardous waste to Frosty." Salt melts ice, sand on ice is helpful for traction. What?!

Honestly, I don't know how Eric Roberts does it. Yes, he does it for the money, but he's a great actor and deserves so much more than the bottom-of-the-barrel roles he's mainly getting.

From now on, I will use the phrase "Well... Okay." when I watch a really confusing movie.

It’s 11 months after this video has gone up. I’ve apparently both watched and liked it. But I have zero memory of any of this.

This isn't QUITE as insane as Saving Christmas, but I think it's the only film I've seen you feature coming that close. Wow.

Watch DeCotou direct the third film, a Soccer Christmas Miracle, which will feature a team of soccer players constantly playing in their underwear while trying to bring their dead fathers back from a plane accident where they all went missing.

Never was I so convinced that the entire cast and crew where high on drugs while making this.

God why does this kid deliver his lines like he’s a robot who got rejected from the chess club

Wow just wow😵

Yknow how the Eric Andre show gives some people anxiety and panic attacks because they dont know whats going on? This is the Christmas version of that

Oooohh, the writer definitely explains it.

This feels like it was written by the villains from all 3 Black Christmas' simultaneously After they took a hit of Aylmer

As soon as I found out who was behind this movie, I once again found myself having an existential crisis.

This movie certainly is something