The Karate Kid (2010)
Twelve-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.
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Memorable, crazy movie
Absolutely the worst movie.
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Jaden Smith is awesome in his role of Dre! Don't listen to the haters. This is a very cool movie for all the family. Jaden Smith is super cool and the film is super entertaining. We are huge fans of the original Karate Kid, and this remake is really cool, fresh and fun. My kids love it. We have watched it like 10 times. The worst: This film should be called The Kung Fu Kid, because it's about Kung Fu, not Karate. The best: All the rest: Jaden Smith, the tournament, the story, Jackie Chan, the girl, the violin piece. Watch it, cheer up and enjoy!
Instead if boring you with a long text, here are the reasons why this movies blows penguins:karate in a chinese context movie... moronsjaden smith, assholehe's 11 years old and black, good luck finding a chinese girl.chinese are being portraited as assholes... china even had to edit the moviejaden smith (yeah I already put it but that's how bad he is).horrible acting from everyone (yeah even jacky chan is not doing his best which is already not great).obviously made to make money in china
This should not be named Karate Kid. However, since I really like Will Smith, this was actually not a bad remake. I agree with the other user below, it's Kung fu and not actually karate. There will NEVER be an actual remake or copy cat of Daniel Larusso...aka Ralph Macchio. Not much action in it, except Jackie Chan, and Jaden Smith being taught how to fight against the bullies and winning in the end. The only move that was done remotely close to the original movie was when he attempted the Crane Technique...Good Try though.
This is such a poor movie that could have been so much better. I watched it only because I am such a big fan of Jackie Chan and his obvious professionalism and gentlemenllyness that he always shows on and off screen. I despise the blatantly obvious for real spoilt behavior, that never changes, that Jaden Smith brings to the screen. His mom and dad should be ashamed that their child acts this way on and off screen. You can definitely tell that Will Smith used Jackie Chan for favors to get this made, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree there and unfortunately you can read that attitude throuout the whole movie and unfortunately the plot does nothing to remedy that behavior, how can it when the parents, writer, producer, director, etc promote that behavior.