The Karate Kid | Going the Distance - Prague, Czech Republic

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It´s not that the material isn´t fresh anymore; it wasn´t fresh in ´84, or even in ´76, when Avildsen made the similarly-plotted Rocky. 2010´s Karate Kid just doesn´t offer up enough personality, it doesn´t strike any resonant pop culture chords. There´s nothing like Joe Esposito´s You´re the Best on the soundtrack (its replacement? Justin Bieber´s Never Say Never). No Cobra Kai. No “sweep the leg!” No “wax on, wax off,” though they do try something similar with a jacket. “Drop it. Hang it up. Put it on. Take it off.” I don´t think that´s gonna catch on.

Jaden Smith (son of Will and Jada Pinkett) stars as Dre Parker, a young grade-schooler who is transplanted from Detroit to Beijing along with his mother (Taraji P. Henson). He doesn´t speak a word of Chinese, but it´s OK, nearly everyone he encounters speaks perfect English. He makes a quick American friend upon his arrival (who is never seen again), chats up a pretty local girl (Wenwen Han) at the playground, and then gets the shit kicked out of him by the neighborhood bullies, led by Cheng (Zhenwei Wang in the William Zabka role), who don´t take kindly to his, uh, existence.

Han visits the bullies´ instructor to make peace, but instead finds John Kreese reincarnated as Master Li (Rongguang Yu), who demands a fight before they can leave – either with him or the boy. Han agrees to train Dre, and have him fight in an upcoming tournament. Li (as Kreese was in the original) is the real villain here, but he´s so arbitrarily over-the-top evil he comes across a joke; you wouldn´t believe someone like this could actually become a martial arts instructor, but then again, a similar situation is described in Jessica Yu´s documentary Protagonist.

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Justin Long stars as Garrett, a mildly unhappy music exec who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Drew Barrymore is Erin, a harried summer intern at a New York City newspaper. The two meet cute over an arcade game of Centipede at a local bar, hit it off and spend the night together. Neither is looking for anything long-term – he´s just out of a relationship, she goes back to Stanford in six weeks – but they fall in love anyway, and are eventually forced into a long-distance relationship.