Synopsis
12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother move to China where Dre makes an enemy of the class bully, Cheng (Zhenwei Wang) who teaches him a lesson using his Kung Fu skills. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a master of Kung Fu and challenges Cheng to a match of Kung Fu.
Did you know?
The American title for this film was kept as "The Karate Kid", to maintain the connection to the earlier films it is loosely based on, even though this movie takes place in China and the martial arts used are forms of Kung Fu.
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As Dre and his mother enter Beijing, Dre looks up at the modern CCTV tower in Beijing and agrees with his mother that "not all things in China are old"...
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Dre goes to the Imperial Palace or the Forbidden City in Beijing, China as part of his school trip....
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Dre and Meiying at their school trip, talking at a place that is overlooking the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China...
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Dre-Meiying date in front of the National Olympic Stadium also called the Bird's Nest in Beijing, China...
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Dre and Meiying go on a date and run around in front of the Beijing National Aquatics Center also called the Water Cube in Beijing, China...
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Dre and Han visit Cheng's Kung Fu school, where they land up throwing a challenge to Cheng's Kung Fu master than Dre would participate in the Kung Fu tournament. While walking back through the Beijing Shaolin Wushu School in China, Han tells Dre "I will teach you real Kung Fu"...
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Han takes Dre to the Wudang Mountains in China to make him acquainted with the history and practice of Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture. ...
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The snake being hypnotised by the Wushu expert, while balancing on the Dragon-head incense burner rock that jutts out from the cliff of the Tianyi Zhenging Palace, totally absorbs Dre. He uses this move as his trump card to defeat Cheng in the tournament....
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While going to the Wudang Mountains, Dre asks Han what they would learn that day. Han tells him that they would learn about "Chi" - internal energy which is the essence of all life. He meant Wushu - the traditional martial arts form practised by the Shaolin monks in the Wudang Mountains. I...
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Dre and Han set out to practise Kung Fu at the pointed peaks of the Huang Shan Mountains in China...
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Dre and Han practising Kung Fu at the Great Wall of China....
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