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For months I have heard about the pos­si­ble remake of The Karate Kid, and I said to myself, “the plot is sim­ple and to the point, so the odds of get­ting it wrong are slim”. Sadly, I was mis­taken with that assess­ment. The basic premise goes as fol­lows: Sin­gle mom and son move to new home — son has trou­ble fit­ting in — son takes a lik­ing to pop­u­lar girl — boyfriend/bully makes life hard for the son — son meets jan­i­tor who is mar­tials art mas­ter — son learns to fight and beat bully/boyfriend in tour­na­ment or con­test of some sort.  How easy does that sound? It has been used in count­less movies and is usu­ally okay.

I’ll leave you with this: Karate = Japan­ese mar­tial art.  Jackie Chan = Chinese.  The boy =  learn­ing Kung Fu. Oh yeah, and it’s called The Karate Kid. You be the judge:

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