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Djimon Hounsou, Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, and Amber Heard in Never Back Down (2008)

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Never Back Down

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Featured in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" Horton Hears a Who!/Never Back Down/10,000 B.C./Funny Games/Paranoid Park/Conspiracy (TV Episode 2008)

      Clips shown for the review.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" The Best and Worst of the Year... So Far (TV Episode 2008)

      Clips are shown.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" The X-Files: I Want to Believe/American Teen/Brideshead Revisited/Step Brothers/Boy A (TV Episode 2008)

      A clip is shown during the New on Video segment.
    • "Cinematic Excrement" Never Back Down (TV Episode 2009)

      Topic of review.
    • Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (Video 2011)

      The final fight from the first film is featured online

Followed by

    • Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (Video 2011)

    • Never Back Down: No Surrender (Video 2016)

    • Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)

Referenced in

    • Disaster Movie (2008)

      mentioned by Juney
    • "Cinematic Excrement" New Moon (TV Episode 2010)

      "Did they hire the guy who did the soundtrack for Never Back Down?"
    • "Cinematic Excrement" Eragon (TV Episode 2011)

      Smeghead brings it up as a film Djimon Hounsou was in.
    • "Cinematic Excrement" The King of Fighters (TV Episode 2011)

      "I thought I was done with this guy after Never Back Down!"
    • "Cinematic Excrement" The Legend of Hercules (TV Episode 2014)

      Smeghead brings up the fact that Summit Entertainment also made this film.

References

    • Kung Fu (TV Series 1972–1975)

      "Your 'grasshopper' speech."
    • Mad Max (1979)

      Max is called Mad Max
    • The Karate Kid (1984)

      Young man learns martial arts from strange old instructor.
    • UFC 1: The Beginning (TV Special 1993)

      "I'm not into that UFC stuff."
    • American Pie (1999)

      Ryan mentions "all that American Pie crap" when he and Jake walk pass a pool full of girls

Spoofs

    • Rocky (1976)

      Max and Jake try to drink two raw eggs and spit them out

Version of

    • Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)

      followed by

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