An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
Back in the mid to late 80s there were drastically different pricing for VHS movie rentals. New releases could cost $5-$8 for a single 24 hour rental. Some rental stores had a middle tier price/time structure as well…then there was the garbage tier rentals of 99 cents for anywhere from 24 hours to a week.
Gymkata was one of those movies that would regularly be found on the 99 cent garbage tier movies. When you’re scraping together coins for a to afford a 99 cent rental for Friday night, you want to get one of the best garbage tier movies you can.
Gymkata was always a regular at the top of the list of favorite garbage tier rentals! We rented it many times!
Ninjas with MP-40s. Dang.
This movie is so outrageous. That summary doesn’t do it any justice, wasn’t there a princess in the mix?
Also I love the idea of some 1885 mf’er winning the old timey Gymkata games.
Edit: Geezes my math was bad, 1085 which makes it even funnier as gymnastics weren’t even a thing.
Oh no, the game doesn’t have anything to do with gymnastics per se. It’s just that the Main character is played by an gymnast and they apparently wanted to make an action movie around that gimmick.
Been so long since I saw this one. It was at a theater that encourages audience heckling and drinking so my memories is a bit foggy.
Pure Gold! Great find! 10/10 should not watch but definitely will!
There’s a Rifftrak of this I think.
If not, there should be.
I know MST3K referenced it a bunch
