Han takes Dre under his wing and teaches him the martial arts in some most unusual ways. He enlists the help of the maintenance man, Mr. Naturally this doesn’t last forever and he subsequently gets the beat down from a group of local bullies. But what really catches Dre’s eye is Meiying (Wenwen Han), a Chinese girl who’s intrigued by Dre’s ways. Dre immediately meets another American by the name of Harry (Luke Carberry) and the two hit it off. So Dre takes a last look at his place, eyes up the notches on the door symbolizing the milestones in his short life and off they go to the Far East.
Henson) has just gotten a new job at a motor company in Beijing (they moved from Detroit – I’m trying to figure out the connection there). The story begins as we meet Dre (Jaden Smith). Yes, really – Jackie Chan! Hmmm, could this work? The locale is no longer Southern California, instead it’s Beijing, China. In their places are Jaden Smith (son of Will and Jada) and Jackie Chan. Let’s turn the clock forward a quarter of a century and, as Hollywood tends to do, we’ve now got a remake of “The Karate Kid” but gone are Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. Yes, the movie was that inspirational and is still looked back upon with much fondness by me. As fate would have it, we ended up seeing “The Karate Kid” and, having taken a few taekwondo classes at the YMCA the summer prior, I left the movie thinking that I could conquer the world and remember doing flying kicks in the parking lot (my little brother was doing them as well).
Bear with me, I’m going somewhere with this. My family was living in Scarsdale, New York a place which none of us actually liked so we used any and all excuses to escape to the movies or the bowling alley. The year was 1984 and I was 11 years old. Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? Plot: What’s it about?
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