Karate Kid - We’ve Changned Almost Everything

[american_arcane]

Originally published at Toob Talk. You can comment here or there.

First, go and watch this trailer for the new Karate Kid movie staring Jacki Chan and Wil Smith’s talented son Jaden.


If this weren’t being billed as The Karate Kid, I don’t think it would be that bad.

My problem is that, once again, we’ve taken everything except the most very basic

Comments

[leiacat]

I would be unsurprised if it turned out that it was written for an older kid, and then rewritten after casting Jaden

The Kung-Fu Tween?

[jastengel]

It has definite cable free on demand possibilities... though I could be persuaded to go to a $6 matinee if someone else really wanted to go... (after all she did go see Zombieland and Inglorious Bastards with me)

[fllnangel17]

When I first heard they were remaking it, I was a little leery. Then when I heard about all the tweaks, and saw the trailer, I have no interest whatsoever in seeing this.

[frontdoorangel]

In 1984 I was only 6 so even if the original had an older target audience I don't know if that really panned out. I certainly don't recall my teen age aunts and uncles really getting excited about Karate Kid the way my elementary and then middle school friends did.