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Watch your nose in the hallways, these guys can really kick. In this fight flick, the students of a kickboxing academy take on students from a rival school. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Pretty awful moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Chyler Leigh | ... | Cindy |
 | Christopher Khayman Lee | ... | Danny (as Christopher Lee) |
| David Everett | ... | Brian |
| Daphne Duplaix | ... | Melinda |
 | Eric Miranda | ... | Chet |
| Kely McClung | ... | Treck |
| Cory Ferguson | ... | Soupy |
| Justin DePrume | ... | Barry |
| Connor Reilly | ... | Jason |
 | Donna Barnes | ... | June |
 | Steven Bauer | ... | Carl |
| Tony Pacheco | ... | Tarbeck |
| James Gallen | ... | Jam |
| Tom Scalise | ... | Maddox |
| Wayne Gudger | ... | Stabile |
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This movie is trying to be some sort of demented cross between THE KARATE KID PART III, REVENGE OF THE NERDS, and POLICE ACADEMY. Needless to say, it doesn't work. The jokes here are so bad that it's mind-boggling that the scriptwriter actually thought someone might find them amusing. The acting is terrible, the movie is filled with pointless filler (shots of food frying and kids skateboarding), and perhaps worst of all, there is no actual kickboxing! 99% of the fighting is done with beginner's level, very generic karate moves. There were only two people in the movie who knew anything about martial arts, and no one who knew anything about kickboxing. Weird.
However, about halfway through the movie I actually started enjoying it just because it was so ridiculously stupid. The plot is totally predictable and corny, and I started counting the cliches, which was an entertaining endeavor. By the end of the movie I was laughing. I don't know if I would actually recommend watching KICKBOXING ACADEMY on purpose, but if you have a twisted sense of humor and a passion for really stupid martial arts films, you might enjoy it. Suddenly Jean Claude Van Damme seems like a great actor.
3/10. I'm surprised the cliche police haven't arrested the writer of this one.