2/21/2023 0 Comments Double dragon cartoon car![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps more importantly, Robert Patrick, just three years past his famous portrayal of the T-1000 in Terminator 2, plays the villainous Koga Shuko, “the richest man in the world,” who wants the Double Dragon medallion so that he can have total control of New Angeles. (Seriously, were there no dorky white guys available who could act like they knew how to fight?) An early-career Mark Dacascos plays his more even-tempered brother Jimmy, who at least actually knows martial arts instead of just mugging at the camera, which is about all Billy ever does. Scott Wolf from TV’s Party of Five plays hotheaded Billy Lee, who I guess we’re supposed to like because he’s kind of a jerk? He is definitely Poochying way too hard. The handful of structures that are still standing are topped with huge “smog fans,” and Andy Dick shows up as a TV weatherman to warn of dangerous “black rain,” never mind that whenever anyone goes outside the weather is beautiful, clear and sunny. In this case, the apocalypse in question was “the big quake” which destroyed Los Angeles in the year 2000 (remember that?) and left “New Angeles” in its place, a ruined and flooded city held up by giant jacks which have to be manually adjusted as aftershocks continue to rock the buildings some seven years later. The film, from music video director James Yukich, takes the game’s premise of twin martial artist brothers and adds a mystical Double Dragon amulet that has various magic powers, not to mention themed gangs, a rich CEO villain and a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future, because it is a martial arts videogame movie made in 1994 and was therefore required by actual law* to be set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. ![]() These earlier media adaptations probably had as much or more to do with the direction taken by the live action film as the games ever did, though the movie then influenced the release of the 1995 Double Dragon fighting game for the Neo Geo. There was also a short-lived Marvel comic book and a Saturday morning cartoon series, which in turn had its own line of action figures. As such, it doesn’t really know what it wants to be.īefore it became a film, Double Dragon was a 1987 beat-‘em-up arcade game (one of the first) that was ported onto NES, the Sega Master System, Game Boy and more, and gave rise to a bevy of sequels. “Dude, you must suck at videogames.” – Double Dragon (1994)ĭouble Dragon isn’t quite the first live-action film ever adapted from a videogame – the Super Mario movie beat it to the punch by a little over a year – but it’s that close. ![]()
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