Spoiler: I don't understand a part of the film

The goons wanted to make a dramatic entrance, and the writers needed a device to cause conflict between Ned and Eric and the injury to the one goon's arm was an easy way to cause that conflict.

Why did the monks want to go bowling? Why not? The monks mentioned not having left their temple in many years when responding to Julie's wish that they would come visit her. They are Japanese monks and bowling was a tremendously popular activity in Japan among those of the monk's age group.

After the final fight between Miyagi and Col Dugan, it is assumed that they can now go to the police and turn in Dugan and his goons will no longer lie to protect him. He will probably lose his post with the school and have to make restitution for the car. The money from the bowling match will go to the maintenance of the temple. It is the only "honorable" usage of such funds.

Ned said that animal control had picked up the hawk. You must not have heard that.

I agree with the topic creator 100%. The bungie scene was just so out of place, it left me scratching my head for the remainder of the film. The whole point of the scene is for the audience to feel concerned about the Alpha Elite member who gets injured doing the jump and think Ned's an a$$hole since it was probably his idea, but that is all destroyed. Instead the audience is confused out of their *beep* minds because the events happened too fast and with no explanation beforehand.

The car explosion, in my opinion, was just thrown in there for some useless pyro. It was just too over the top, having them blow it up. Yeah, McGowen quit their retarded hall monitor gang and he got the girl that Ned wanted to so badly rape, but should that warrant an act of arson and destruction of ones vehicle and a 20 on 1 gauntlet style beating? Hell no, just leave it with the smashed windows and a kidnapped hawk (mentioned later).

The bowling was just a horrible way of showing the monks having a night out. I almost shut the movie off the first time when the one monk prayed to the pins to make them fall. Try picturing that scene in any of the other Karate Kid...it would just look absolutely rediculous, out of place and stupid, right? Of course, but then again this movie is rediculous, out of place and stupid.

As for the hawk, they should have had Ned try to kill it or something, to make us hate him more. If they want us to hate the villians in a film, why would they have them (professionally) take the time to send the bird to an animal control? Wouldn't they keep the hawk and use it as ransom or something? They should have had the hawk in a cage in the dock scene at the end, so when Julie and Miyagi kick butt at the end they can get the bird and set it free for the movies ending. I guess in that case Miyagi wouldn't be able to find some rediculous connection with the stupid bird and Julie changing from a frigid bitch to an obedient student before the movies end confrontation. Awell.

There was also a scene, which you didn't mention, that just didn't make a lick of sense to me. This particular scene would be the redneck gas station brawl. So a guy's vicious hound takes kindly to an Asian man who also stops a potentional mauling of a teenage girl. Why the *beep* would the dog's owner and his inbred buddies try to assault a paying customer of their gas station, who was also nice enough to even invest in some of their *beep* chocolate bars with almonds? This was just another scene they *beep* up that was just supposed to show Miyagi using his karate expertise in front of Julie in a real life situation. Instead of making a simple, coherent instance of this, we get another scene that has us scratching our heads like the apes that wrote this movies blasphemous script.
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the goons jump off the rafters because they wanted to make a big entrance seen as they are pledges of the Alpha Elite and they can do anything they wanted as they in a way rule the school.

i don't know about the car. maybe they didn't want to cause more trouble by involving the police seen that miyagi kicked his butt.

they wanted to get out seen that they are normally in the monastry 24/7.

ned and the gang informed animal control about the hawk so they took it away.

also this is a kids film so they wouldn't be thinking "why didn't they call the police about the car?" and they fact that she had time to change her clothes but not tell anybody about it.