13 Responses to “Pick Up Your Jacket is Weak Sauce Compared to Wax On, Wax Off”

1. greg Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 am

   1 yeah, definitely lazy with the naming beyond that, the movie itself looks quite entertaining.

2. Josh Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:48 am

   2 I’m not seeing a high likelihood of the “put him in a bodybag” line making it - and that’s perhaps the most sad in this travesty.

3. Amaniwolf Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   3 Seriously….this is Kung Fu, chinese….not Karate…Japanese. I love Jackie Chan, and it looks interesting, but people were just lazy ass with this.

4. SBlue Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   4 Ah… Corporate America… They don’t know the difference between China, Japan, or Mexico. Whatever makes them money is what they’ll go with. Hollywood, sadly, seems to be where all of these morons breed, though. I can understand this mistake being made twenty, thirty years ago. Not so much, now.

5. torsoboy Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   5 I also see the whole “all martial arts are ‘karate’” mentality in the naming. Hey it’s some chop socky karate chop stuff! No one else will know what it is unless we call it “Karate.” I wonder how MMA fighters deal with that.

6. CharmCityShinobi Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm

   6 I did like the ending where they broke the expectations of catching the fly with the chopsticks. Other than that, I’m kind of “eh” on the whole thing.

7. Paul Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   7 I like gruff Jackie Chan.

8. FmF Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm

   8 Isn’t crane a Chinese style?So yea probably all ways should have bin the kung fu kid.I need to ask some one who know karate if any thing in the old movies were karate now.Karate is a hard style.So it not the prettiest style to watch.Best karate ever look is in mock fights and katas performances and we know if it isn’t shiny no one going to watch it.The closes we ever get to a karate movie is probably some XMA movie were a guy used a karate stance.The fly thing was kind of funny though.

9. Millie Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 pm

   9 My brother took me to see the original when it came out. For years, all I remembered was how pretty Elizabeth Shue was and her soccer skills. And that Ralph Macchio looked like even more of a douche than the skeleton crowd. Plus I learned to do push-ups on my knuckles (dad never approved). I agree with you that there is a fundamental flaw to this. If you’re going to produce anything, make the heck sure it’s solving some problem. And if you’re replacing something that works, make sure you give the customer 100% of the original value — don’t be dropping what made the damn thing work in the first place (Elizabeth f’ing Shue, cryptic-zen Pat Morita, “STRIKE FIRST. STRIKE HARD. NO MERCY!” Kreese). It’s own franchise? It would be less painful for us, sure. But the studio recognizes this for what it is — Jackie Chan’s Pacifier/Forbidden Kingdom. It has weak kung fu, an all minority cast (you know how well that sells), and a rehashed shonen fight story that made a 7 year old ill the first time round. And Jaden isn’t up to Macchio standards in the acting department either. All they have is the name. Definitely skip.

10. david Posted: Dec 24th, 2009 at 1:43 am

    10 movie itself seems like a nice drunken fun night, or a movie for people with kids; rename it king fu kid and I will agree to this thing being spawned. also if there is no “sweep the leg” there is no way I will be seating in theaters for it, expect an illegal download from me at the very least.

11. Lurklen Posted: Dec 25th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    11 My kid brothers will like it, and it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal to call it the Kung-Fu kid.

12. GT Charlie Posted: Dec 26th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    12 Couldn’t agree more! Call it what it is, The Kung Fu Kid. It would pay appropriate homage, gathering interest from the old school crowd, and it would sell better too, since kung fu is way cooler than karate these days. The kids are too young for this storyline, too. I hate watching little kids pretend they are grown. And for some reason, I think it’s weak that it refers to Jedi in the trailer — it’s like the movie is too aware of itself. Thanks for pointing this out, since I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise. For me, there will remain only one karate kid.

13. Samuraiartguy Posted: Dec 27th, 2009 at 1:08 am

    13 Jaden and Jackie seem to have some really good chemistry. Why not build on that and create a new franchise? This thing should be called The Kung Fu Kid. Seriously. I HATE the Studios. It’s like that BULLLSHIT cliche that Americans cant tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese. It the same thinking that led to the almost 100% anglo casting of the Avatar, The Last Airbender film, with the attitude “so what’s the big deal?” Even my WIFE noted that the audience that CHEERED when Pat Morita’s character was introduced as mr. MIYAGI, can probably differentiate Kung Fu from Karate. Having studied Karate, Jujutsu, and T’ai Chi, and currently Shaolin Kempo Karate. I still get annoyed when Tae Kwon Do Schools put “Karate” on their storefronts.