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So the commercials all promote Jackie Chan and Jet Li. What they neglect to do is mention, I dunno, the **main character** of the film, a young Boston kid named Jason Tripitikas (played by Michael Anganaro).
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So the movie’s basically a kid film. You have a reluctant hero who gets sent to a fantasy version of China, and along the way he learns martial arts and Eastern philosophy.
What did I like about it? The fight scenes are, for the most part, fantastic. They start off a little weak, get better over time, and then get absolutely fantastic when you have both Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the film. The fight scenes are weakest when there’s too much CGI in them — but most of them are purely physical, and quite good.
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The Chinese fantasy aspects are authentic, if not accurate (much in the same way the HBO series Rome is not a completely accurate recounting of events, but an authentic recreation of the tone of ancient Rome). They throw in things like The Monkey King and his golden staff, soldier monks, drunken immortals and even The Bride With White Hair. And the Chinese philosophy, for those familiar with it, is spot on.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li are fantastic not only as fighters, but comedically as well. (There’s a scene involving rain that had absolutely everyone in the theater laughing hard.) Anganaro puts in a surprising turn physically — he looks like he got a lot of martial training. Yifei Liu is heartbreakingly lovely.
It’s probably a little scary for young kids — there is some intense violence in the beginning, for instance. And there are sappy moments, as you would expect for a kid’s film. But it means well. I have to say that I had a bit of trouble making out the English of some of the Chinese actors sometimes, tho — and I’m Chinese-American! I worry others might have even worse problems.
Still, overall, I liked it.
Pop……..POP…. POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOP!
Ok take that popcorn out of the microwave, grab your cola, and set the lights down low and get ready for some kung-fu action.
At first glance, the movie seems to be full oh wired choreographed fight scenes which I pretty much loathe. But the movie took the scenes and made them `ok’. It was like it was telling us “Yes, we know you know it’s wires, but you and we are ok with it”. And I was. It starts with The Monkey King kicking some butt up on top of a fake looking mountain top, and then *poof* we find out that it was all but a dream. Jason Tripitikas wakes up and heads to his favorite pawn shop down in Chinatown to pick up some more kung-fu movies. As Jason is heading out of Chinatown, he gets stopped by some local thugs/bullies. They make fun of him about his kung-fu movies and then show him some of their own fighting style. After the beat down they tell him to take them to the pawn shop so they can rob the place. The old man, knowing a few moves himself, takes it to them, but only cheated out of the grace of fighting like a man, by a single bullet. Jason runs from the thugs with a staff that the old man hands him. As Jason tries to get away, he falls and lands…
…in a different world in a different time. He comes across a man named Lu Yan (Chan) who tells him about his staff. That it once belonged to powerful man named The Monkey King. The Monkey King was tricked into a non fair fight and before the King was imprisoned he sent his staff away so that someone could come rescue him with it. They assume it’s Jason, but is it? As they travel to where the Monkey King is imprisoned they come across Golden Sparrow. A girl seeking revenge for her family’s death. They also come across The Silent Monk (Li), who is also on a mission to free the Monkey King. With their journeys intertwined, we can only hope for some sweet Kung-Fu action. And boy do we get it.
Jackie Chan vs. Jet Li was truly fun to watch. We all know it could’ve been MUCH better if they were probably 10 or 15 years younger than they are, but come on, it was still a great fight scene. Praying Mantis, Snake, Tiger, Crane, all types of Kung-Fu was used. It was definitely something to witness.
The Monkey King vs. The Jade Emperor, even though CGI enhanced and wire enhanced, was pretty awesome. It made the fact that they were godlike characters more believable. The CG used for this was spectacular and looked close to being real.
And there were many more scenes where Lu Yan, The Silent Monk, the Golden Sparrow are fighting all types of people. You won’t be bored with a lack of Kung-Fu.
I also liked how there was a white haired woman bounty hunter after them. When she fought her hair became part of arsenal along with a whip she carried. Now I’ve seen some Kung-Fu flicks with people using their long hair before and the way it seems fake, always made it great. In this movie, when she starts to whip her hair around, it’s CG looking (but once again this does not hurt it), until it hits the person. For instance on one scene it’s got Lu Yan grabbing her hair and looks totally fake, but at the same time amazing. It felt like a throwback to some of the older movies. Man I loved it.
Some people are complaining that this was too kiddy. Well, I can see where they are coming from because there isn’t a deep story here. It did feel like it was more geared towards a `not really having to think about it’ crowd. And you know what. GOOD. I don’t always have to think about stuff when I’m watching a good action flick. I actually had a blast watching this because I think if it took itself to seriously, most of the fight scenes would have been `eye rolling’ instead of fantastic.
In the end I would say grab this movie up as soon as you can and sit the kids down with a large Papa Johns pizza and have a fun time.
P.S. The way the story was set up, with the kid going from reality into an almost storybook tale, to come back into reality with things he learned… it sort of makes me think of The Never Ending Story but with Kung-Fu instead of a gigantic flying dog.
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