The New Kid

Every year it seems that some studio decides to remake a classic film. Sometimes it can be a great success like with Ocean’s 11, which starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt who were just too cool. Honestly, every guy wants to be Danny Ocean or Rusty Ryan. Another successful remake was Pride and Prejudice, which was kind of gay but it did get nominated for a few Academy Awards.

But most other times you get trash movies like Bad News Bears, a waste of time, The Day the Earth Stood Still, another movie with Keanu Reeves making the same exact facial expressions as always, Rollerball, just sad, or Prom Night, which was just another shitty horror movie. The shit list is far longer that the list of successful films. But while we are on the subject of Keanu Reeves I would like to point out that I find it fascinating this guy finds work. I mean the guy has been nominated for six Razzies and an Oscar doesn’t seem to be in his future. Any movie with him as the lead actor is sure to be a bust.

So Mr. Reeves may or may not have caused the failure of every film he’s been in and is possibly the worst actor in Hollywood but lets talk about Jackie Chan instead. He had those Rush Hour movies that were decent, but nothing great, and he was the voice of the monkey in Kung Fu Panda and I guess that’s pretty cool.

But is pretty cool good enough to replace Mr. Miyagi!?

Yes, it’s true. There is going to be a new Karate Kid and Jackie Chan will be playing Mr. Han, the reincarnation of Mr. Miyagi and Ralph Macchio’s replacement will be Will Smith’s scrawny little kid, Jaden Smith. I just hope Columbia Pictures doesn’t completely ruin something we all love.

Everyone knows The Karate Kid. Wax on Wax off. Come on!

The movie is going to take place in China but otherwise it is the same plot. So the question is how can this movie be better?

Lines that reference pop culture? Sweet camera angles? Better acting? Is there going to be a line better than wax on wax off? Well they’ve tried to make a new lasting line anyway, with “jacket on, jacket off.”

The movie doesn’t look all that bad but I worry that Ralph Macchio is still too close to our hearts. The new version better be more than good or I have a feeling a lot of people will be unhappy.

Here is a link to the movie trailer. You can decide for yourself what you think of “jacket on, jacket off.”

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-karate-kid-2010/trailer