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A woman in a yellow tracksuit walks out of a coma seeking revenge on the people who shot her. Tarantino split one revenge epic across two films, mining 1970s exploitation and martial-arts cinema to create a revenge fantasy that became a dorm-room poster staple.
Jack Black's Po — a noodle-shop panda accidentally anointed the legendary Dragon Warrior — turned out to be DreamWorks at its best. 'Skadoosh' entered the vocabulary, the Wuxi Finger Hold entered recess, and there is no charge for awesomeness.
"MORTAL KOMBAT!" — the scream, the techno drop, and suddenly it's the best night at the movies a 12-year-old had in 1995. Cheesy? Completely. Three straight weeks at #1? Also yes.
The 1992 kids' martial-arts movie where three brothers — Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum — spend the summer training with their ninja grandpa and then use their skills to foil bumbling crooks. Home Alone meets karate camp, and catnip to every kid who wanted to be a ninja.
Four monks-in-training race a showboating boy genius and an ancient witch for magical artifacts, and every dispute is settled the same way: "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" Kids' WB's kung-fu treasure hunt turned Saturday morning into a collect-them-all cosmic game show.