subject: Movie review: 'The Karate Kid' [print this page] You don't need a hot tub time machine to tell you that we are in the midst of an '80s pop-culture revival. It's hardly surprising, since the kids who grew up watching the movies and television of that decade "The A-Team" and "The Karate Kid," to restrict ourselves to films opening this week are now old enough to make and approve projects of their own. A lot of franchises that started out back in those kind-of-innocent, not-so-simple times have kept on going ever since. "The Terminator," for instance, and Bruce Willis.
