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After the launching of remake of The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith, everyone been talking about it. Nice as claim by people around me. Actually I wasn’t keen on this movie but my friend was keen to watch it. So I decided to join in the crowd.

Before the movie, I was expecting another kid trying to learn Karate and beats his opponent.

I was expecting the martial art that will be used in this movie is Karate.

I was expecting something like this in the movie. The Karate attire. The ‘bird’ post.

But after the movie going into half way, I sense something wrong. Then I told my friend, am I watching the correct movie??

How come no Karate one???

I understand the opponent is using Chinese Kung Fu but isn’t Jaden suppose to learn Karate?

How come he learns Chinese Kung Fu instead. Some more at the climax of the movie, he even wears Kung Fu attire ala Yip Man.

I run a quick search and I discover that only few country use The Karate Kid as the title. Maybe is some way to promote their movie?

Also Known As (AKA)
Karate Kid Finland / Germany / Portugal (imdb display title)
Best Kid Japan (English title)
Gongfu meng China (Mandarin title)
Kung Fu Kid USA (working title)
New Karate Kid Indonesia (literal English title) (English title)
The Kung Fu Kid International (bootleg title) (English title)
Untitled Karate Kid Remake USA (working title)

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I don’t know. But I believe if they promote this movie as Kung Fu Kid, I doubt the cinema will be full in every time slot.

Good job for the promoting strategy. We should learn from them because none of my friends complain to me about this.

Oh ya, by the way, even though I admit the movie is nice, I give it a

3/10 rating.

My recommendation.

DVD is good enough.

J