This so-called Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan,is two hours and twenty minutes of raw sewage funneled through an old sweat sock.From the previews I knew this movie wasn't going to do justice to the original. I wasn't planning on watching it, but my best friend wanted to see it and I gave in. Bad idea. It was a waste of my money.I went in with very low expectations and, sadly, those were still too high for this movie.
I'm just 30 minutes in and the "good guy" intentionally pisses off the "bad guys"....wth?? I can't root for the "good guy" anymore and I hope he gets man-handled for the remainder of the film for acting like such an idiot.At the end,I was really pissed off for wasting 2 hours of my life which I would have spent productively watching paint dry.
The acting is very annoying. The plot is very annoying.Also the title makes no sense as the film is based on Chinese kung fu and not Karate.
The plot is derivative and insulting:Non-Asian goes to China as a fish out of water, gets bullied, but is trained by a mysterious fighting master. In a few months, the non-Asian wins against all odds against fighters that have trained longer than him and wins the affection of an Asian chick............Boo hoo!!!
Also the kids were too young. In the real Karate Kid, teenage boys beat the crap out of each other, and it was believable and bearable because teenage boys really do beat the crap out of each other like it's a hobby. Watching a handful of 70 lb. pre-teens wailing on each other is just disturbing. And, of course, they aren't allowed to bleed,since it's a PG movie, so the fights were nothing but choreographed stunts set to loud music.
I really like Jackie Chan and, I believe, he did a good job in the movie, but his overall participation did most certainly not compensate for the almost non-stop appearance of Jaden Smith who can not act.
No doubt puckering up to Will Smith's and Jada Pinkett-Smith's collective asses, the movie-makers spent way too much time trying to make sure Jaden looked cool. From his tightly-styled corn rows to his soulful mugging for the camera, Jaden did pretty much everything in this movie except for act.I don't care if he's Will Smith's son, it's not like acting is genetic. He was just trying too hard to be funny, and too hard to be serious. It didn't seem natural, like he was in the moment.
No self-respecting casting agent would have casted him if he auditioned the old-fashioned way. He's too young, too scrawny, and too inexperienced to carry such a role.What would happen if Jaden Smith was not the son of Will Smith and if he would audition for a small role in a movie as a mentally handicap toilet cleaner?I bet a gazillion dollars,he would not get that role.
It would have made more sense to cast Jaden Smith to play Chucky in a remake of Child's Play. That would result in a remake that could at least improve one thing, it would scare the hell out of you and since Child's Play is a horror movie, it would be fitting. Then again, Jaden Smith isn't scary, he is sad.
The geography was all over the place. Once the mom and the kid are in China, you have no idea where you are in relation to anywhere else. One minute, Mr. Han seems to live in the apartment building. Another time, Jaden runs a few blocks to find him. There are no specific sets to lock onto. No Mr. Miyagi garden to walk around in and enjoy. And the school experience is a random collection of buildings, times, and days.
Neither does the whole jacket-on, jacket-off training trick. In the real Karate Kid, the wax-on, wax off, paint-the-fence, side-to-side, sand-the-floor stuff is brilliant because it's excellent physical training disguised as manual labor. Having Dre throw his jacket on the ground over and over for hours and then days on , is both pointless as an action and transparent as a training gimmick.
There's a love-story shoe-horned into the plot. It doesn't work for as many reasons as the movie itself doesn't work. The girl is too good for Dre. He hasn't done anything to earn her attention. And they're both too young. There's no sexual tension,so who cares? I'll spoil the movie by telling you they kiss. eww.....gross. It felt like child molestation.
The real Karate Kid was a feast, laden with humor, drama, action, and soul. This piece of crap is an overpriced entrée with all the right ingredients but it's been put together by a lobotomized monkey.
I'm just 30 minutes in and the "good guy" intentionally pisses off the "bad guys"....wth?? I can't root for the "good guy" anymore and I hope he gets man-handled for the remainder of the film for acting like such an idiot.At the end,I was really pissed off for wasting 2 hours of my life which I would have spent productively watching paint dry.
The acting is very annoying. The plot is very annoying.Also the title makes no sense as the film is based on Chinese kung fu and not Karate.
The plot is derivative and insulting:Non-Asian goes to China as a fish out of water, gets bullied, but is trained by a mysterious fighting master. In a few months, the non-Asian wins against all odds against fighters that have trained longer than him and wins the affection of an Asian chick............Boo hoo!!!
Also the kids were too young. In the real Karate Kid, teenage boys beat the crap out of each other, and it was believable and bearable because teenage boys really do beat the crap out of each other like it's a hobby. Watching a handful of 70 lb. pre-teens wailing on each other is just disturbing. And, of course, they aren't allowed to bleed,since it's a PG movie, so the fights were nothing but choreographed stunts set to loud music.
I really like Jackie Chan and, I believe, he did a good job in the movie, but his overall participation did most certainly not compensate for the almost non-stop appearance of Jaden Smith who can not act.
No doubt puckering up to Will Smith's and Jada Pinkett-Smith's collective asses, the movie-makers spent way too much time trying to make sure Jaden looked cool. From his tightly-styled corn rows to his soulful mugging for the camera, Jaden did pretty much everything in this movie except for act.I don't care if he's Will Smith's son, it's not like acting is genetic. He was just trying too hard to be funny, and too hard to be serious. It didn't seem natural, like he was in the moment.
No self-respecting casting agent would have casted him if he auditioned the old-fashioned way. He's too young, too scrawny, and too inexperienced to carry such a role.What would happen if Jaden Smith was not the son of Will Smith and if he would audition for a small role in a movie as a mentally handicap toilet cleaner?I bet a gazillion dollars,he would not get that role.
It would have made more sense to cast Jaden Smith to play Chucky in a remake of Child's Play. That would result in a remake that could at least improve one thing, it would scare the hell out of you and since Child's Play is a horror movie, it would be fitting. Then again, Jaden Smith isn't scary, he is sad.
The geography was all over the place. Once the mom and the kid are in China, you have no idea where you are in relation to anywhere else. One minute, Mr. Han seems to live in the apartment building. Another time, Jaden runs a few blocks to find him. There are no specific sets to lock onto. No Mr. Miyagi garden to walk around in and enjoy. And the school experience is a random collection of buildings, times, and days.
Neither does the whole jacket-on, jacket-off training trick. In the real Karate Kid, the wax-on, wax off, paint-the-fence, side-to-side, sand-the-floor stuff is brilliant because it's excellent physical training disguised as manual labor. Having Dre throw his jacket on the ground over and over for hours and then days on , is both pointless as an action and transparent as a training gimmick.
There's a love-story shoe-horned into the plot. It doesn't work for as many reasons as the movie itself doesn't work. The girl is too good for Dre. He hasn't done anything to earn her attention. And they're both too young. There's no sexual tension,so who cares? I'll spoil the movie by telling you they kiss. eww.....gross. It felt like child molestation.
The real Karate Kid was a feast, laden with humor, drama, action, and soul. This piece of crap is an overpriced entrée with all the right ingredients but it's been put together by a lobotomized monkey.
hahaha...funny .....tru dat abt Jaden....
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