The first one was fantastic and enjoyable by kids and adults. The second a step down. This was just disappointing and seems like it was written only for children.
It's descended into kid-level logic in the story, with overly silly gags and nonsensical occurrences (accidentally capturing bad guys, young girls knocking out full grown men with one hit, one dimensional characters repeating the same dumb jokes).
The end was cute, but didn't make up for the rest of the movie. I found myself not caring if they won, and even kind of wanted them to lose because of how disappointing everything was. Not sure how this is getting such a high score.
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Read More »Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn "satori," the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may become the training regimen for the city's police, Sanshiro can gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, that teacher's daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.—