Gymkata (1985) - Comedic Movie Review
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- An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years. Lets do this!
Starring: Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Conan Lee,
Director: Robert Clous,
Writer: Charles Robert Carner, Dan Tyler Moore,
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I remember being at a grocery store with my mom back in early 90s. and you could rent videos there as well. And I remember seeing this giant movie poster for this movie and seeing this guy kicking ninjas in the face. And anything with Ninja's in the 90s as a kid was amazing, so I begged her to rent it, she didn't LOL.
Have you been able to bring yourself to forgive your mom yet? If so, you are a bigger man than I!🤔😉🙂
I'm sorry to hear about that, but don't worry, we're all here for you. 😂
@@munstrumridcully 😂😂
I know how you feel I remember getting on my knees to beg my mom to rent revenge of the Ninja and missing in action 2 at my local video hits plus instead we got Beethoven and clue at least we got a bag of Doritos and a bottle of Pepsi in the deal
@@donright4492 what flavor Doritos?
I haven't seen this movie since I was like 10. It has aged like a fine wine.
Red Eye Reviews you have honored my request to continue providing us with these awesome “classics”. Thank you brother
I'm so glad! You're very welcome :)
With each passing year, this film gets more enjoyable. And the "It's just a bit of anti-American sentiment..." never gets old. Wonderful work on this video, sir!
So glad you liked it. That arrow scene cracked me up so bad
him saying "carabal on the Caspian sea" is the only thing i remember from that movie.
Now imagine this movie, with Chuck Norris. With Steven Segall. With Mel Brooks as a martial art movie spoof!
It would be amazing
Kurt Thomas is real life "Luke Skywalker"! (minus the midachlorians) Then I see the "Mel brooks" guy, and it's "Yogurt". "Star Wars" and "Spaceballs" meet. I needed this.
I needed this as well lol
Family guy made a reference to this movie when stewie did a cutaway gag about having a style of martial arts that’s basically weaponized gymnastics but it is extremely specific in its requirement of having gymnastic Equipement (such as a pommel horse) conveniently placed where a fight needs to happen. They even call it gymkata and stewie uses it to rescue an Asian princess.
That is hilarious. I'll have to track that episode down
@@RedEyeReviews the episode is called the woof of Wall Street but a clip of the gym kata parody is on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/xvM_aM9fSEQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks very entertaining. This is another one of my fav movies. Saw it in the theater as a kid. Loved the Princess Bride reference.
This would have been awesome to see on a big screen
Yay you finally made it!
I remember the map they use towards the beginning also has some blatant mistake (Black Sea for Capsian Sea or something).
11:01 I love how he's flexing both arms to hang onto the rope, because his out-of-frame feet are definitely not touching the floor.
And I thought you missed the best line, but you just kept it for the end: "There's just a little anti-American sentiment running around, but I think..." *gets shot with an arrow*.
Lol that line is SO perfect I had to show it twice
Red background almost made me miss this but I do love your new thumbnail format. Red on red is hard to see so the eyeball wasn't as obvious
Agreed! Maybe for red backgrounds I can update the little triangle to yellow or something
@@RedEyeReviews yeah
just this rare case but otherwise they're great.
Dude I love Mel Brooks and I'm glad that you (probably) do, too. Another great vid. Caught this on VHS at a party in high school a while back. Hilaraious. Fav part is when the handler gets the arrow. Just, out of nowhere.
Mel Brooks is one of my all time favorite directors. I just finished his autobiography and it made me love the guy even more
(Written before even watching the review) I'm so excited you are doing this movie! I was wondering when you were going to get around to it. I remember first watching it late one night on either TBS/TNT/USA and thought it might be some strange fever dream hallucination because I wasn't really sure what I was watching was real.
(Written after watching the review) That fever dream feeling was definitely generated by the village of the crazy people scene, especially the super long slow-mo and the anachronistic pommel horse. I do love the Princess Bride splicey during the reacts segment, and feel you could have done a splicey with the handler getting shot with an arrow and either the video or just the audio of Lancelot's squire getting shot in Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Eric Idle saying "Message for you, sir.". Also, I feel like during the crazy town compilation, for the guy hanging out the window and laughing it sounds like they took and slightly modified the sound effect of Salacious Crumb laughing - Jabba's Koawakian Monkey-Lizard (I am THAT nerd) from Return of the Jedi.
Been waiting to see if you would do this one. Unfortunately will have to watch later. Far too busy watching unlawful assemblies get taken care of at the moment lol
Ah yes, still as fantastically cheesy as I remember from sneaking into the theater to see this when I was 11. Thought it was the best shit ever back then. Actually broke my wrist trying to recreate flipping over on the high bar at the playground. Good times.
Oh man I totally forgot about this movie!! In my town in the 80s we had a little movie rental store called “The Movie Scene.” They prided themselves in their ads how many ninja movies they had in stock! Owner also had a Delorean (of course this was at the height of the Back To The Future time) and used to let us kids sit in it and have our parents take our pics! Good times!
OMG the final clip of this video gets me every time, so funny
could’ve swore the legendary Bart Conner also had an action movie like this, but can’t find anything other than his role in the movie “Rad” which is another epic 80s thrill ride
This movie is of course a low budget showcase of the gymnastic proweses of Kurt Thomas; however the Village of Lunatics really creeps you out and the pommel horse is by far a legendary scene.
This!!!
I have watched every other RER video. I thought the Under Siege 2 review was the best thing on the Internet, but the Mel Brooks king? Perfection.
Yeah that's not a hawk, that's an eagle. Which you can tell because unlike a hawk, it's the size of that human man.
I grew up with this one. I actually have nothing but fond memories of it. Lol
Much like many of the other movies I watched as a kid.
But, when I watch them as an adult, I can't help but laugh, and face palm 🤣🤦♂️
Great entertainment 👌
And, once again, thanks for allowing me to relive this treasure of a movie, along with your hilarious commentary 🤣
Yes!!! Love this movie glad you watched it. Pretty sure RE4 used this village as inspiration
17:48 I had this as my text message notification for a while
Hahaha amazing
Red Eye Reviews, Didn't I tell you this was comedy gold? 🤣
It really really is
@@RedEyeReviews may you can add this to the list: Passenger 57 with Wesley Snipes. The Replacement Killers as well.
That arrow bit killed me lmao
Killed that guy too! Lol
My 3rd time watching this🙌🏾
My first was Saturday morning. Then fight night at my buddies pad after the fights, we all bonded and watched it together 😂🙌🏾
Yesss... You did it!!
I had totally forgotten about this movie lol but saw it a number of times as a kid. Though I remember it being called The Terrible Game 🤔
this movie was made in Yugoslavia,how did i know,that gun its m 70 ab-2.Zastava's version of ak-47.
I thought a „It’s good to be the king“ joke would follow the Mel Brooks king
Brilliant 🤩👍 only your work with SS makes me laugh more. 😂 needed a go laugh 😹😎✌️👍
Let's get Red Eye to 100K subscribers
Lol the village scene, it's like Resident Evil 4 but there's no budget.... 😂
After this I'd love to see them make a Roger Federer shoot em up action film.
Where he returns grenades with his tennis racket
@@RedEyeReviews Yes, ha ha we need to see this, Gymkata Review was so funny!
Was that Uncle Phil doing the orginal Old Spice commercial?
🤣🤣❤️ OMG!! And I thought I’d seen every shitty 80s KARATEEE/Ninja movie.. you bust out this badboi! 🤣🤣❤️🔥🔥 once again Redeye, you made my day/evening 👌🏻
this movie seems worth a watch i will add it to my list lol
Gymkata is up there with Citizen Kane.
RIP Kurt Thomas
how is yogurt from spaceballs in all rhese movies , I thought the king was gonna say may the " swartz be with you "at any moment
Awesome review! As usual =)
I'm ALMOST finished binging the Seagal playlist - LOL
For old-school martial arts movies have you seen TC 2000 (1993) = Billy Blanks and Bolo Yeung actually plays a good guy in this one!
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Also if you haven't seen this yet, it's a must. Only 1/2 hour long:
Kung Fury
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I think you'd enjoy both of those ;)
Cheers!
I've never seen this first one. But Kung Fury is amazing!
So glad you liked it
GYMKATAAAAA!!!!
Fun fact... this movie greatly influenced the making of Resident Evil 4. Therefore this film is the greatest film of all time lol.
Yo, you did your thing on this one.
Good God man why do I think it's not a problem watching this in bed while my girl sleeps. It's a task to not wake her with my LoLs! 😂
I've never sat down to actually watch this, but we used to put it on in the background at the video rental place I worked at back in the 90s, so I've probably seen the whole thing multiple times, but only in bits & pieces, so I can't actually tell you anything about it. It really is the quintessential Cannon movie though - ninjas, a nonsensical plot, and a trendy gimmick to hang the whole thing on... What more could you ask for?
Well, that flip he used on a princess is in fact unique and was called in his name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_salto
That's insane.
He had three named after him. Gymnastic rules state the first to perform the move, not the creator of it, have it named after them.
I looked him up while watching this movie last week.
you said pet hawk. it is a big ass golden eagle =)
Is John Cabot a better or worse name than Tarl Cabot? The Tarnsman of Gor.
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Redlettermedia did s Best of the Worst review a few years ago. Laughed my ass off.
This was better!
Aww thank you
Why did you delete it the first time
Funny enough. These movies seem to be steven segal’s inspiration.
7:04 Clearly, that was Steven Seagal doing that epic stunt work. No one else could have pulled it off.
Of course!He has been a stuntman since he was 5 years old!
I think the stunt was CGI, no way any human can pull that off.
Too much movement for Steve, he'd have his stunt double do it. Then layer his face over the stunt double. Then layer the other guys face over that one.
Steven's been twirling in front of stationary vehicles for the better part of forty years now.
Zamir is played by Richard Norton who was also in Future Hunters (1988), a movie you should definitely put on your list.
I think quite a few Richard Norton movies could make his list 😂
Who also did part of Kia the Sai-wielding main ninja, in The Octagon. Tadashi Yamashita, who was the other trainer of Kurt, was Seikura.
That guy was in every martial arts B movie ever made lol.
@@owie4070 "China O'Brian" trilogy. Let's make it happen!!!!
@@kevynhansyn2902 Hell yeah!
it's a good thing that most of the people he fight seem to stand perfectly still whenever he fights them
And there was always a bar to swing on
Easy simple minded people if you read the tytle of this classic film.
Gymkata.
The skill of Karate with Gymnastics.
Put those 2 together and you have one very fast unstoppable fighting force.
And the many people just standing there as He takes them out.
If they all went in to attack him he would be dead Butchered and film finished. This film is one very good well made put together classic for the 1980s.
It has alot in it with a very good film starcast.
A great brilliant fantastic soundtrack.
Very good fighting scenes.
Why did you watch it all the way through just to bad mouth it.
And to the simple minded the young Fighter Kurt Thomas was in real life a Gymnastics Gykata Fighter.
It's all about speed and timing very fast.
This film is age 15 and over.
Any Youngsters under that age watching this are Breaking the Law.
It's unsuitable and not for under that age.
Very young Children of very young ages under 15 shouldn't be viewing such films with unsuitable scenes.
And parents renting out films like this for underage Children to see are Breaking the law.
It's a Crime and also parents will get fined jailed taken to court. This film isn't suitable for under 15 so no Child under that age shouldn't be viewing it .
Feels like a mix of Rocky 4 and a Bond flick, with some enter the dragon thrown in for good measure. And ninjas, can't forget the ninjas
There are no ninjas, unfortunately, just guys dressed in black.
John Cabot (aka Giovanni Caboto) was the name a a pretty famous Italian explorer. He was the first European explorer to actually step foot in North America, on the East cost of Canada in 1497 (Christopher Columbus only went to the Bahamas).
In the 1970's it was determined that the Viking discovered Newfoundland, and built a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows around 1000AD, thus beating both Columbus & Cabot by about 500 years.
TLDR - John Cabot is a fine name.
Oooo now this is pretty cool history. Thanks for sharing :)
Did he also discover Parmistan?
@@kungfew1396 😂
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Redeye your channel is fire like the Olympic torch!
Aww you are too kind :)
Just when I thought the conveniently located gymnastics alley bar was the coolest thing I have ever seen, this movie blows my mind with the conveniently located insane people town’s pommel horse!
The only thing missing was a conveniently located battle trampoline.
The unnecessarily gratuitous slow motion was the icing on the cake!
Gymkata is my favorite gymnastics based martial arts movie starring Kurt Thomas. It truly is one of the best "so bad it's good movies". It's like The Room of martial arts flicks. Another great review, sir!
Haha mine too!
No it was too horrible
It's too bad this guy never teamed up with Chuck Norris, they could have been a totally sweet team
Imagine the amount of awesome hair???
"He's really in his elements now" not sure if this was an intentional pun but it's brilliant lol.
If ever there was a movie made for Red Eye Reviews, it is this gem. Brilliant work as usual, good sir. And if you ever have the opportunity to find them, 1. Kill or Be Killed and 2. Kill and Kill Again are cheesy martial arts gold.
So glad you liked it! I will look for those movies soon!
Honestly I have never even heard of this movie. Good on ya Redeye! You are dragging out some GOLD
This is the dose of high energy comedy I needed this morning
R.I.P. Kurt Thomas...you will be missed. Saw Gymkata in the theatre when it came out when I was 10- instantly went home to jump over lawn furniture and climb trees,lol!
I just watched this last week out of the blue. This dropped before going to bed. This should be fun. 👍
Just like Alexander the Great he brought his formidable Gym-Fu skills to far flung Parmesan! There’s definitely a revenge story for elite athletes in there somewhere, I didn’t get to win gold so I’m a gonna burn down the Mafia!
THIS WAS GREAT! I was wondering if I was going to get my Saturday morning review when I was passing out lastnight😂🙌🏾
So glad you liked it :)
The director of this also directed both "China O'Brien" movies starring the awesome Cynthia Rothrock.
Parmastan...😂 pretty sure the A-team has been there and shot out some bad guy's tires
The twirl is what makes it parkour. That man is very skilled indeed!
Was not expecting crotch shot in this one, quite the surprise there! Lol
Love the random gymnastics equipment laying around Parmistan. Must be a national passtime. They even gave some to the crazy town! 🤣
Right?! If Parmistan wants to be in the Olympics some day, they gotta start somehow lol
This was one of my favorite martial arts movies during my 80s karate phase. Kurt’s trainer (the one with the falcon) is Tadashi Yamashita who is also BlackStar Ninja in American Ninja, and Seikura in The Octagon.
(Thank you for these amazing videos!)
1985 and I was 15/116. I remember seeing this in a dollar theatre. I absolutely love gymnastics and America, so this movie was a definite must for me. However, I don't really recall anything from it--other than the alley scene. Maybe it's because I went from the extreme heat of San Antonio into the chilly air of the theatre and my brain jelled. From what I've seen it has all of the over-the-top storylines and predictable corniness of an 80s action movie. And that is why that decade ruled!!! #Godblessthe80s
I'm sure most folks here know about it but Richard Norton was one of the guests on Scott Adkins' "The Art of Action" yt series and he talked in some detail about this film (and other stuff too of course, it's a really interesting interview if you like action/martial arts cinema).
Oh! I should take a look at that
@@RedEyeReviews You don't watch The Art of Action?! There's an ep with Seagal too, but Adkins is too nice to go for some weirder stuff. I love eps with Cynthia Rothrock, Norton, Urquidez...
It’s a must watch for fans of 80’s martial arts cheese. He even interviewed Kurt McKinney from No Retreat, No Surrender (couldn’t find R.J. to interview him, alas) and we got some behind the scenes insights into that classic.
Awesome stuff. 0:09 In honor of the Olympics you'll do Gymkata? You mean the Winter Olympics where gymnastics doesn't feature? ;) 1:00 Present tense? You know Kurt Thomas passed away two years ago, right? 1:35 A gymnast is doing it (a game based on athletic skill) because world-class gymnasts are - surprise, surprise - among the most capable athletes in the world. Plus his special intelligence father had also competed in the game previously and had disappeared without a trace. So there's that. 7:32 They're not ninjas. "Ninjas" with machine guns however featured on the film's poster. 9:17 The first one wasn't fair because they weren't in the same stage as the prisoner - which is why he was immediately killed for breaking the rules. The second one was fair because he was in the same stage as the prisoner as explained in the film's dialogue. 10:24 That was again against the rules, but as you should know, they were intentionally breaking all the rules at that point.
Sir. How dare you. As a Goudaslavian I am offended. It is 2022 and that, sir, is what we call now a neurodiverse village!
Hey, my daughters do gymnastics. So that means they're top notch martial artist. 😂
I know it doesn't work like that. But the people who made this movie believed so.😂
@@umbrellacorp. Well, they could probably kick MY butt. But that's not really a high bar.
You forgot to say the Asian character was a rental version of sonny chiba😂 and um I don't know about those spitting moves that would attract the princess I would go like more of a warm smile and just being normal and introduce myself then spin into the wall and the weapons he never uses those and as for the terrorist they didn't even hardly have any guns a couple of them did the guy with the sweet stash barely could use his and the other guy who was chasing them through the streets who didn't see the cops even though he swung around them neglected to shoot them first before trying to get the hero and the princess what amateurs 😂but movie is still good
Parmistan-The Land that invented Parmesan!
Sorry!😔😝
Is nobody going to ask how Grandpa Joe became the king of a country full of ninjas?
Wow, that parkour move at 7:00 was just off the charts. Who knew that such a cheesy movie would have such talent in it. [END SARCASM]
Wait...at 14:57 we get a mention of the Stars Wars program in Gymkata? Ummm. Okaayyy.
So. maybe in Seagal's next movie that takes place in India, they can mention that chess was invented in India in the 8th century. That would be an appropriate insert. Right?
"Death becomes you."
RER: "Yea, and oats become cereal." LOL!!
Lol yup! It was aaaallll about Star Wars....I guess.
I'm glad you liked it :)
FanboyFlicks already covered this Gymkata movie and I must admit your review is different but in a good way ;)
I had a blast watching this video, thank you.
I'm so glad you liked it!
I'm not sure how much you like reviewing cheesy SciFi movies, but Ice Pirates and Battle Beyond The Stars would be a good place to start. As well as Metalstorm, The Destruction Of Jared-Syn. Plus a whole bunch more.
I LOVE that genre. I need to start doing some on the channel. ill add these for sure :)
I like those Parmistan Bagels they sell at Jamba Juice.
Thanks for covering this movie. I recommended it a couple weeks ago, I hope you injoyed it. I enjoyed your review.
Of course! It was an excellent recommendation :)
Hey Redeye 👋 hoping everyone's having a great weekend!! I'm not sure if you already do this, but have you thought about sharing what movie you will review just so the fans could watch it as your video is released, kinda like a movie club?. 👀🎬 Been loving the new thumbnail idea.💪🏼🤣🤣
Oooo that's a good idea! I'll brainstorm how to do this :)
"I missed out on the 1980 Olympics and all I got was this lousy movie". I should put that on a T-shirt
Brilliant
I was in 6th grade (1988) and my friend’s dad rented this one out on VHS. We loved the pommel horse scene! I remember the town’s folk creepin’ me out.
Omg, was the inspiration for the Old Spice guy one of the trainers from this movie? You could tell it was his first time on a horse. He sounded out of breath and was watching the horse's every step.
Lol right?! That dude was bouncing all over haha
My brothers and I watched this movie countless times on VHS as kids. We thought this movie was SO GOOD 🤣🤣
The poster for this film looked amazing! So i made my dad rent it back in the 80s......omg we were so pissed at how bad the film was. The asian girl hot tho
God this channel is everything
I guess flipping like a maniac and doing a lady's voice is a turn on lolol
Lol I'm glad you got a giggle :)
I remember being 10 years old in 1986 when I was living in Puerto Rico, there was a video club called Top Hat Video, located on Ave Monserrate on the corner of Sanchez Osorio Ave in Carolina, and they had a huge poster for Gymkata facing Moserrate Ave. I wanted to see this movie sooo bad, but I didn't have a VCR back then. However, my best friend at the time, Edwin Gonzalez (RIP), his dad used to rent a bunch of R rated Canon Films, which is where I saw classics like Revenge of the Ninja, Missing in Action 2, The Octagon, and also saw First Blood as well. However, I never saw Gymkata. It seems it was never meant to be.
Boycotted the Olympics over Russia invading Afghanistan:
America 17 years later: Oopsie.🤨
When Family Guy did a Gymkata bit I nearly cried. Such an obscure thing and I was in shock but laughing so hard.
I've NEVER seen this. Long ago others said "Gymkata is GAY!" because that's what kids say, anything they don't like is gay. 🤣 So I looked at the box cover screenshots and agreed.
This was one of me and my sisters favorite movies growing up. We were close but as I neared adulthood I started making bad decisions that landed me in jail. Our relationship sort of suffered, we've never really been close ever since.. until I sent her this video on Gymkata. She loved it and it brought back so many wonderful memories from our childhood. Now we text each other random movie scenes and try to guess the movie lol. 🤷🏽♂️ Idk it's a start just wanted to say thx man seriously ✌🏽
I need this movie in my life...I must own it.
I spent a Summer at this tournament interning as an "Out of Bounds" Ninja.
Unfortunately... Nobody could see me.
And I was hoping the final battle would be a ribbon dance fight! But all I got were cartwheels and somersaults!
Lol that would have been perfect