Wordiezett So much average

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mike Garcia Karate Kid movie was a great success on the eighties, after that film many movies came out trying to repeat the formula,movies like "No retreat,no surrender","karate kimura","American shaolin",all them shows a weak kid who trains on martial arts to overcome his problems, Sidekicks is one of those films but like the rest of the clones of karate kid, sidekicks has it's own style. This film shows what really martial arts are about,the overcoming physical and mental of the individual...Jonathan Brandis plays a kid who dreams with his idol, Chuck Norris, and dreams with fight next to him in many of his films, he also doesn't have a good health and the dream of become like chuck make him start training to overcome all his troubles. The cast of the film is well chosen, Mako is fantastic as the master of the kid and Julia nickson is gorgeous as teacher of the main character,the scene of Julia doing the martial arts exhibition on the tournament is really impressive,Brandis,is really intense on his role, you can always feels the anger, loneliness,sadness of the character and what to say about Chuck Norris? he play himself giving to his character humanity and reasons to make the kid and the audience to be a better athlete and better persons...Maybe I'm the biggest fan of this film on earth, but I really love it's message...Sidekicks deserved a better luck on box office and critics reviews but people has many prejudices on martial arts films, if you are not prejudiced and wants to have a great time, enjoy this film.

steelbluerage The martial arts may not be Jet Li or Jackie Chan caliber, but this movie is just fun. I always enjoy fun feel good "action" movies of when i was younger, if for nothing else, for a little nostalgia. Joe Piscopo is the most un-ruthless main villain, perhaps in the world, in this movie. He's constantly made a fool in pretty embarrassing and entertaining "day dreaming" segments. There is a lot of pretty amusing parts within this film, and it's a good one for the whole family.I suggest finding it on amazon.com or at a Movie Trading Company (if you have those in your state or city.) While you're at it, pick up the more adult oriented Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Hard Target" That movie is phenomenal as well.

Wanda McLean This movie was just great! Jonathan Brandis was a great actor and will be sadly missed by all of his friends and fans... This movie was about an teenage boy with asthma always getting into trouble because of his vivid fantasies and daydreams of Chuck Norris teaming up with him to rescue his teacher. In order to help the boy (Jonathan Brandis) overcome his daydreaming and his asthma, his teacher's restaurant owning uncle takes the boy under his wing to teach him healing and strengthening techniques.He does so well that the uncle signs him into a martial arts competition.As a surprise, the mentor sees Chuck Norris at the competition and Chuck Norris introduces himself to the boy.In the end he teams up with his the boy to compete in the martial arts competition. A Great Film!

Woogiee Ok, I'd just like to say i personally thought this movie was great...its got that whole cheesy martial arts feel to it with the coming of age aspect mixed in. Ya...anyways what i'd like to know is how come this movie isn't on DVD? I have searched high and low for it and i can't find it, it doesn't exsist! There are plenty worse movies made that they are releasing on to dvd's i don't see why this one isn't. So if anyone ever sees this, especially someone who has the ability to put this movie into DVD format and preferably with some kind of behind the scenes extras or even better yet commentary with chuck norris and jonathan brandis i would greatly appreciate it and i would be the first one in line to get it....and who knows judging from the other posts maybe the last but hey.