“The Karate Kid” – Review
July 23, 2010
Release Date: 06/11/2010
Length: 140′
Personal Rating (1-10): 7
“The Karate Kid” is a remake of a classic with the same name but one that follows just the guidelines of the original.
Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mom move to China to start a new life after the dad had past away and some other bad things we assume happened but are not presented (probably because this type of story has been already told so many times that nobody actually cares anymore). Here Dre comes into contact first with the handy man, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and then with the kids on the block. First the love plot, represented by Meiying, a cute local girl, and the action plot represented by Weng, a kid that picks on Dre. Our boy comes to find out that Weng is in a kung-fu school and somehow gets sucked in this world, having to fight in a tournament in order to gain the respect of Weng’s “crew”.
Luckily Dre finds an excellent teacher in the (this was so unexpected) handy man, Mr Han. And from now on we have the classic story.
Overall the new “Karate Kid” has a good vibe but does not manage to keep you in the world they try to present. If you ask me, in order for a movie to be good it has to keep you in the fantasy world starting from it’s first minutes to the end. “The Karate Kid” has pauses in it and therefor can bore you.
Although the trailer looked kind of awesome when I first saw it, the movie didn’t have that big of a success in the box office. An interesting thing about this movie is that the entire Smith family seems to be involved in it. Will Smith and his wife are producers and the light in their eyes, boy Jaden Smith is the star actor. Surprisingly enough he pulls a good role.
There’s not that much that can be said about the movie and that says it all 
Watch bellow a mix of training exercises done with the master Jackie Chan (who has aged! this one of the figures in Hollywood you don’t expect to get old) but without the new “wax on wax off” this time represented by picking up and dressing / undressing a jacket.
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