Fifteen #35

Told ya' that I'm going to watch The Karate Kid and i watched, it was cool and awesome xD

Should watch it :)

Ignore the coming soon.

The plot bears many similarities to the original Karate Kid film, with some notable differences. Twelve year old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is the most popular kid in Detroit, Michigan until he and his single mother Sherry (Taraji P. Henson) move to Beijing. This is a result of her being transferred by the car making company she works for. In their new home in Beijing, Parker falls for a young school student named Mei Ying that he sees in the park. As Dre flirts with Ying, an infamous bully named Cheng comes to pick on Parker's strange dance moves. As Dre tries to fight back, he is hurt even more in the process, with a restrained Ying forced to watch. At home, Sherry is oblivious that anything has happened. The next day, on Parker's first day of school, Sherry realizes that Dre has makeup covering a black eye, but Dre is able to dismiss it by saying he ran into a pole. During school, Parker is "accidentally" bumped into by Cheng, who he realized earlier goes to the same school. Afterwards, he discovers Mei Ying's talented skills with the violin, but sees that her teacher thinks that she rushes and thinks that practicing during lunch is not enough, so she must make time during the weekend. Both Parker and Mei Ying find it difficult to form a solid friendship with each other because of their cultural differences and because Cheng seems to disapprove of them even making eye contact, and bullies Parker whenever he sees this.

With the bullies constantly throwing him to the ground, and with no one else to turn to, the outlook for Parker's new life looks bleak until he meets Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), his building's maintenance man, who makes a deal with the bullies' kung-fu merciless master that if they let Dre train they can fight Dre in the upcoming martial arts tournament. A quirky mentor and a kung-fu master in secret, Mr. Han teaches Parker kung-fu through unconventional, yet effective techniques. He makes Parker do the same tasks continuously for long periods. Put on a jacket, take it off, hang it, take it down, drop it on the floor, and pick it up. He does this continually as Mr. Han fixes a car in his living room. After Parker shows anger towards this continuous training, Mr. Han explains how each move, added with strong firmness, can be used as a defense technique. He then expands to tell Parker how everything we do is kung-fu. They travel to the place where Han was born, and climb the stairs up a very large mountain until they reach the area where Mr. Han learned kung-fu from his father. On the way, he tells Parker that the water that he is so thirsty for is at the top in the Dragon Well. As they walk through the temple-like area, Parker shows interest in a lady following gently to the movement of a cobra. Han explains that the lady is not following the cobra, but the cobra is following the lady. Parker thinks that Han will teach him this "mind control" but is told that it takes a lifetime to master. As they reach the room of the Dragon Well, Han teaches, with the reflection of the water, that if you stir the waters, your reflection will be gone. But if the waters are still, your reflection will follow you. They do a little training of the reflection with long poles of bamboo with rope loops at the end. This part can be seen in the trailer for this movie.

When they get back, they start more serious training. They go to the Great Wall of China to train endurance and speed. Parker is given a day off training because "too much of anything is not good". Parker spends the day telling Mei Ying the same thing and takes her away from going to practice to cut class and have fun. Later, he rushes to go see Mei Ying's audition that she has been practicing for but is told that he is banned from her life by her father. Parker decides to go to Mr. Han's place even though there's no practice, and sees that Mr. Han has destroyed the car he has been fixing with a baseball bat. Mr. Han tells him that the day is the same day as the day he drove 2 people to their death in a car crash but only he survived. Parker uses the bamboo sticks to drag Han out of the broken car to train and keep his mind off of the past. Sherry comes in and sees the training and smiles as the movie quickly skips to the Martial Arts Tournament. Parker starts off badly because he runs away off of the mat, making him lose a point, but regains courage and makes his way to the semifinals. He is put up against a person who goes to Cheng's kung-fu school. The master tells the boy to break Parker's leg, which he does reluctantly, getting disqualified for an illegal repetitive attack to the knee. As the Master of Ceremonies is about to announce Cheng the winner by default, Parker walks out of the infirmary, healed by an ancient healing technique Han used. Cheng ruthlessly knocks Parker down when the fight starts, giving him one point, but Parker counters with 2 wins made by moves he practiced with Mr. Han previously. Cheng's master tells him to try and break Parker's leg, which is successfully done legally. With 2 wins, 2 losses, and one match left, Parker slowly gets up and balances on his good leg leg, and reaches his arms out like he remembers the cobra lady did. He stares at Cheng and turns his head. Cheng follows, wondering what Parker is planning. As Cheng begins to run, Parker immediately jumps, flips, and brings his foot down on Cheng's head to win the last point. The last scene freezes with Parker walking away with Han's hand on his shoulder.

Ratings: 11/10

The running time of this movie is 2 hours 20mins.

We watched the credits, erm maybe listened.

♫ Never Say Never ♫

Burger King for lunch.

Baskin Robbins for dessert.

Subway for dinner.

Very tired today, im going to sleep.

Well, nothing else to say.

Go visit Jeremy's blog http://dememoriiaa.blogspot.com/, if you wanna know more :)





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