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Gymkata

  • 1985
  • R
  • 1h 30min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,4/10
4861
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Kurt Thomas in Gymkata (1985)
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.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.An American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.An American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.

  • Regia
    • Robert Clouse
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Charles Robert Carner
    • Dan Tyler Moore
  • Star
    • Kurt Thomas
    • Tetchie Agbayani
    • Richard Norton
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,4/10
    4861
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Robert Clouse
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Charles Robert Carner
      • Dan Tyler Moore
    • Star
      • Kurt Thomas
      • Tetchie Agbayani
      • Richard Norton
    • 88Recensioni degli utenti
    • 78Recensioni della critica
    • 51Metascore
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    Kurt Thomas
    Kurt Thomas
    • Jonathan Cabot
    Tetchie Agbayani
    Tetchie Agbayani
    • Princess Rubali
    Richard Norton
    Richard Norton
    • Zamir
    Edward Michael Bell
    • Paley
    • (as Edward Bell)
    John Barrett
    • Gomez
    Conan Lee
    Conan Lee
    • Hao
    Bob Schott
    Bob Schott
    • Thorg
    Buck Kartalian
    Buck Kartalian
    • The Kahn
    Eric Lawson
    • Colonel Cabot
    Sonny Barnes
    • Western Trainer
    Tadashi Yamashita
    Tadashi Yamashita
    • Eastern Trainer
    Sharan Lea
    Sharan Lea
    • Connie
    Zlatko Pokupec
    • Mackle
    • (as Z. Pokupec)
    Slobodan Dimitrijevic
    • Tamerlane
    • (as S. Dimitrijevic)
    Ivo Kristof
    • Brockschmidt
    • (as I. Kristof)
    • Regia
      • Robert Clouse
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Charles Robert Carner
      • Dan Tyler Moore
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    esb1000

    Unsung Masterpiece

    It's hard for me to explain in words the passion i have for this work. If you will imagine me thrusting my hands into a chalk bag and clapping them together - bursting an advancing white cloud into the air - but mentally - before i can begin to describe to you the unadulterated genius of Gymkata - then you may begin to fathom this...passion. A gymnastic Tour de Force for Thomas. Who doesn't loose themselves watching this and straddle their ottomon in Bruce Lee-like pantomime as Thomas "pommelhoarses" several battalians of earnest shedsmen?
    cnwilks

    So bad it's good

    People love to rip on this camp classic, but I have probably seen this movie as many times as Star Wars. Johnathan Cabot(Kurt Thomas) is a swashbuckler like no other, and he has an uncanny knack for finding gymnastics equipment to do routines on and defend himself. The pommel horse in the village of the crazies is a perennial favorite, as is the horizontal bar in the middle of the town of Karabal, on the Caspian Sea.

    Look for a cameo by the Where's the beef? lady in the village of the crazies, and a plot that is a convenient afterthought to the creation of a context where Thomas' gymnastics skills can be highlighted.

    As if one bad movie about Gymnastics wasn't enough, Mitch Gaylord decided he'd give it a shot in American Anthem, which came out a year later.

    Unfortunately, this Gem is not available on DVD.

    -CNW
    5Fluke_Skywalker

    Dumb-Fu

    Looking like a bizarro MacGyver and armed with a deadly gymnastics/karate hybrid fighting style, real life gymnastics champ Kurt Thomas flips, kicks and spins his way though a host of vaguely ethnic baddies in the fictional nation of Parmistan. His mission; to win The Game, a deadly race through Ninja filled forests and a town full of crazed maniacs. If he wins, his prize is one wish, which he will use to allow the U.S. to place a satellite monitoring station in Parmistan to act as an early warning against a potential nuclear attack. Thankfully, there are plenty of uneven bars and pommel horses in Parmistan.

    Maxim once voted 'Gymkata' the 17th worst film of all-time, but honestly it's pretty entertaining. The plot is beyond dumb and the acting is atrocious, but the fight scenes are a blast thanks to some creative choreography, the real life skills of Thomas and a director who knows the genre in Robert Clouse ('Enter the Dragon', 'Blackbelt Jones', 'The Big Brawl' and 'China O'Brien 1 & 2').
    El Dangeroso

    The Parmistani are a proud people.

    The best thing about "Gymkata" is that it takes itself very seriously. Actual men and women worked on this film with no intention of creating a hysterically abominable failure. Yet, despite a premise that fails to produce anything beyond derisive laughter, the project somehow landed financing.

    Highlights include: The Khan of Parmistan, a man who looks like Albert Einstein with Carl Levin's comb-over. "The Town of the Crazies," a village of criminally insane people. A man who severs his own hand for no apparent reason in the aforementioned town. A man (also in that town) who wears a cloak with the back cut out to reveal his buttocks. The oft-repeated location, "Karabal, on the Caspian Sea." The title card that lets us know when we've arrived at "Karabal, on the Caspian Sea." Princess Rubali and her odd fascination with cutlery. A man named "Thorg," who has been admired by the hero "since Munich." An actual line of dialogue that refers to "a nightmare in hell." The five punch/kick sound effects that get recycled beyond believability. A character who presumably fell to his death in a gaping, barren canyon only to have his fall "broken by some trees." The random placement of gymnastics apparatuses. The complete lack of resolution to numerous dangling plot points. Kurt Thomas's wardrobe and haircut. The men working at "The Salt Mines," who just poke a large pile of refined salt with hoes. Also, we get the privilege of seeing a shadowy government agent push away a gymnastics groupie who tries to get too close to a post-dismount Kurt Thomas.

    If you happen across this movie, you must watch it. "Gymkata" stands as an example of what happens when no one offers a dissenting opinion anywhere in the filmmaking process. This is a technique that was later revealed in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin."

    "Gymkata" fulfills every expectation you may have of a film combining gymnastics and ninjitsu. Plenty of gymnastics, plenty of ninjitsu. See it with a friend and enjoy its many failures. All hail "Gymkata!"
    CKParrotHead

    Enter the Mullet

    Mullet Wars at its best man. As expressed numerous times, anyone that loves laughing at movies, who appreciates camp value, mullets, bad acting, extremely poorly acted sequences, bad fight scenes, indiscernible plot configurations, and yes THE MULLET, you will love this movie.

    Everyone around here is giving such glowing remarks about the camp value of the film maybe its high time we talk about just why this movie is BAD. If you're in the mood for an epic adventure action movie, do NOT see this one with hopes of coming out with your testosterone cravings sated. Such is the curse of bad kung fu movies without genuine kung fu artists. Why did this movie fail dismally at its objective? Well I can think of a few reasons off the top of my head. First off, as alluded to, this is an action-epic type of movie with definite parallels to Enter the Dragon. Martial Artist chosen by government to go to some isolated little known area of the world to help the United States' cause by outwardly competing in some kind of competition/game.

    So given its obvious reaching for Enter the Dragon memories, you would think Clouse would have made an attempt to grab some good actors, the kind of martial artists that could easily impress the audience with their moves. So who did they get? All white guys, including an olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, Kurt Thomas. So where in the martial arts action epic genre some directors sacrifice acting talent and bad english for superb martial arts (Ninja 3: The Domination, a bad movie with some pretty good martial arts), and other directors sacrifice superb martial arts for well spoken english, boyish charms, and great acting ability (David Carradine and Jeff Cooper in Circle of Iron, a must-see if you love martial arts genre whacky movies) Clouse has in this case sacrificed "acting ability" of all variations for bad english and *horrible* martial arts sequences.

    Why else is this movie an utter failure at its objective? Well, part of the magic of Enter the Dragon was its theme of Shaolin martial arts. This, especially at the time, was kind of a popular mystical topic that few understood, but most everyone thought was "cool". In this way, anything Eastern involving mysticism or fighting is a veritable well of immediate movie value (hence the 80's ninja craze). The problem with this movie is it gave the feel of a popular mystic subject without using any of the popular mysticism that gives this type of movie instant entertainment value to movie-goers regardless of accuracy. The biggest attempt at this might be the name "gymkata" because it sounds kind of Eastern, and the premise of mixing western and eastern styles. But in actuality this premise is little better than a line in the movie, because there is NOTHING else in the movie to support it.

    Why else? Bad sequences, choreography, and directing. When I think about this movie and Enter the Dragon, I can't help but think that Clouse truly just was not trying with this movie. Its the only way to explain his complete inept job of directing this movie. The subplots are bare and underdeveloped. The premise of the movie surrounds a "game" whose rules and dynamics are completely indescernible, baffling, and plain dumb. As previously expounded upon, the coincidences in this movie are terrible such as the infamous pommel-horse town of the crazies scene. My honest guess is that after Kurt Thomas won the gold medal, some money grubbing crazy producer (the kind responsible for making 7th sequels and whatnot) decided to capitalize on gold medal fame by starring a gymnast in a martial arts movie, then proceeding to blackmail Robert Clouse into directing such a film, and Clouse in his attempt to get back at his blackmailer, sabotaged his own film by putting a bunch of bad-acting white guys who can't fight in a martial arts genre movie, sticking in poorly developed subplots such as the love story between the princess and the gymnast, and overall making a movie that any director would sit back, watch on the big screen, take the ONLY copy of the film, lock it in an iron chest, and bury deep within the earth's core.

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      The film debut of Kurt Thomas, a former Olympic gymnast and his only starring role in his career.
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      When Jonathan is flipping over and over the bar across the alley, his hands are visibly coated with rosin.
    • Citazioni

      Eastern Trainer: There are many sounds around us, each is slightly different. So small as to go un-noticed by the person who is unaware. Do not hear the wood split. Hear the only sound of axe, cutting air. Read the air itself. It has much say to you.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Obscurus Lupa Presents: Gymkata (2010)
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      Written by Alan Nathanson and Roger Stone

      Performed by Remote Control

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    • Data di uscita
      • 3 maggio 1985 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Stati Uniti
      • Giappone
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Asia Mission
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Yugoslavia
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 5.730.596 USD
    • Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 1.261.845 USD
      • 5 mag 1985
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