The Reel Rejects - THE KARATE KID (2010) IS CRAZY GOOD! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:01:01 We're going to talk about Karate Kid, our review. Before we get into it, check out RejectNation Shop.com. Hey! We got these shirts. We got shirts. We got shirts with the tickets.

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Starting point is 00:01:22 quite handily as well. This is quite a nice surprise. Did not know. Justice Smith did the Will Smith thing and sang at the end one of his movies. That makes me like him even more because he has an icon living. It is an icon living.

Starting point is 00:01:36 He's doing that dirty dishes or whatever. The title Karate Kid has been used at the consent of DC Comics.com. Interesting. Boy, go digging the archives. I didn't know Karate Kid was now owned by DC. I must talk to our resident historian. DC has one

Starting point is 00:01:51 of those and they have like full pages of comic. They have this whole like it's awesome. Archive. I'll have to talk. They just like a big brain hooked up to a, you know, like Braniac. Tentical machine. I got to ask him about why Karate Kid is licensed and, uh, yeah. Absolutely. Damn. So this, um, had insanely high stakes, uh, being a 30 or 20 plus year later sequel.

Starting point is 00:02:14 Uh, I think it was mid 80s when we got the original Karate Kid, which then spawned hell of sequels. Uh, and which has recently spawned a long running show on Netflix called Cobra Kai. And now is getting a combination of these two branches, one tree. What intrigues me is, obviously, um, the Cobra Kai cast is not involved minus Ralph Machio. So it feels like it's a karate kid movie, movie coming together in the era of the Cobra Kai movies. That's really interesting how that tone is going to feel. Um, and I'm wondering if it's going to be Mr.

Starting point is 00:02:47 Han and, you know, Ralph Macho's character, which escapes me. Danny LaRuso. Like Mr. Hahn and Daniel Rousseau, are we ignoring the events of Danny LaRousseau and cobra guy like i am very fascinated to know because i haven't even seen the glimpse at that movie yeah i i've seen a teaser or something like yeah i haven't even seen that so i don't know how any of this is going to fit together and that's been the big question mark for me about yeah this crossover is like how much karate you know is this is going to be like one of those sequels where it's like it's only the sequel to the first karate kid and the first 2010 karate

Starting point is 00:03:20 the only 2010 karate kid but he's swank appear yeah will she deny cobra kai and yet decide to show up for this movie. Will Jaden Smith be in it? I mean, it would be cool. This was like so much, I mean, I don't want to say more impressive than I expected, but this was so much more than I expected. Like, I got really emotional.

Starting point is 00:03:41 I was really invested in the stakes. I love a movie that like, you know, everything could possibly go wrong and then uplifts you that three-act structure that movies have that when they do well, you forget that they have them. And this one just kept being like, ah, the uplift is going to be so great.

Starting point is 00:03:57 and then it was um the acting was spectacular jaden smith dude like what a what a powerhouse kid actor man like that was so great and it was interesting to see like at the end i literally don't know if his sister popped up for those things because it's crazy how much he looks like his mom and i think willow looks like his dad uh like her dad and then like but when jaden was young he had so many of his dad's manner isn't looks so much like his mom and it's just so interesting to have a kid actor that comes from two stars that is, uh, young. Like, I feel like you grow into your face, but like, I'm so much more used to Will Smith and Jaden Smith's face that I was like watching this kid like, man, he's got the charm,

Starting point is 00:04:35 the charisma, the movie star element, but he's a kid kid. Like he's not even like a teenager. He's a child. Yeah. And, and the fact that he was able to have that much gravitas and carry himself around one of the greatest actors of all time, Jackie Chan, um, the fact that he was able to move in a way that like, I cannot over credit his movement. if you're moving around Jackie Chan

Starting point is 00:04:54 I imagine it feels like being in like I don't know Clay like Jackie Chan moves so fluidly and beautifully it'd be so intimidating to just like be around him much less do martial arts around him so yeah like how intimidating that would be

Starting point is 00:05:11 the clunkiest most inefficient machine yeah like when you're around like a dancer and you're like I move dumb but like it's Jackie Chan so maybe some of the benefit was that he's not old enough to be self-conscious about how great Jackie Chan is living um the kid was great the the the girl uh may ying um the actors that played may ying was incredible um so much gravitas so much present so much charm and and the ability to convey so much with

Starting point is 00:05:34 with both languages loved that we didn't have subtitles so we had to interpret the subtext from the acting not from the language and i wasn't reading the whole time um loved it what you think yeah just ranted for a long time no absolutely i appreciate the enthusiasm like this was very striking and obviously you know the karate kid is beloved and so people will naturally have strong opinions about any attempt to retread that territory or in this case recontextualize it but i thought this was smart in that it took all the things karate kid is doing and transcribed them to this environment to this circumstance it's you know kid fish out of water coming to live in a new place uh you know running up against bullies and things like that needing to both find his own personal direction as well as a direction and they'll help him you know triumph over this adversity and whatnot and I really enjoyed the kind of flip on that because you know in the karate kid the original one they're just moving to a different part of the country you know they're moving to the valley from New Jersey or whatever whereas here you know way bigger culture shock obviously

Starting point is 00:06:41 and yeah I really like the way that this did all of it really let everything breathe and grow the way an older movie like the karate kid would and it has a certain amount of that permittability with the bully kids and stuff like that. It's not full on 80s movie like we touched on

Starting point is 00:07:01 where it's like they're completely unhinged and they're doing like high you know I mean obviously you run into some kind of territory you could regard as illegal but you know it's not like to the extreme the way an 80s movie feels like they often can be But still, it's enough to where you're like, damn, man.

Starting point is 00:07:19 I really want someone to teach his kids a lesson. Yeah, and the way they capture all the stuff, like when they're beating up on him in the early scenes and throughout the movie, like they really do make that like it's harsh because it's kids, but it also just feels harsh anyway. It's just like the way they capture the impact of the hits. Sound design. And yeah, the sound design and the just outnumbering and the victimization of this poor kid who you can draw any number of conclusions about. You know, maybe it's just because he's from America or maybe it's any number of things. But yeah, you're an outsider.

Starting point is 00:07:52 We're not welcoming you. And you're trying to move in on this girl. We're going to make your life as difficult as we can. And, yeah, I really liked the gradual growth bringing in Mr. Hahn and the sort of slow gestation of their relationship to each other, him finally kind of seeing the potential in why he would want to maybe train this kid, what he might have to offer this kid. And also, you find out later.

Starting point is 00:08:15 in a really touching scene that I thought managed not to be too heavy-handed you can see in hindsight like oh I get it he's probably this kid is probably showing him and I open his heart back up to being a fatherly presence

Starting point is 00:08:31 of some kind and to pass on what his father gave to him which is what you would want to do with your own son and without ever having to be super melodramatic about it or even to directly acknowledge it and they don't even even at the end make it so that like, oh, you just

Starting point is 00:08:47 essentially your dad. Well, all three of us, we're going to live together. Right. You know, like, it's not cheesy really at all. And yet, all these lovely little notes are there. And, like, when he's weeping in the car and Jayden comes in with the big practice bamboo. That might be my favorite moment. Like, that was so, like, I was moved by

Starting point is 00:09:03 the scene, but like, I actually started to get teary-eyed when he came in with the like, everything is kung fu. We train let's train through this. And the shadow theater element of that, tying it all in. Yeah. Like, man. So many great flourishes, and again, like, a movie like this could easily be, like, fine. You could just, like, put serviceable.

Starting point is 00:09:23 A requisite amount of effort into this, but, like, whoever this guy is who directed this. Yeah, I need to look up what Harry, uh, yeah, Hallan, whatever his name is, uh, like, such a, you know, nicely tied together, punchy, evocative visual style that seemed to really drink in the environments and also really accentuate the heat of a moment of battle or combat or whatever it might be. Like, this just had so much TLC in it, you know? Got some bad news. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:09:55 Harold Zwart, is number one film and the only film of his I've seen is now Karate Kid. Okay. He also made... Oh, good. Mortal Instruments. The City of Bones?

Starting point is 00:10:06 City of Bones. You're a mundane. I don't remember that, sure. Paint Panther 2. All right, Cluzzo. Agent. Cody Banks. Cody Banks.

Starting point is 00:10:16 A movie called The 12th Man. Okay. A movie called One Night at McCools, which I've heard of. Okay. I've heard of that too. And a movie called Hamilton starring Peter Stormair and Mark Hamill. What? What?

Starting point is 00:10:32 Harry? What audition tape? Is it okay if I call you Harry? Harry, what happened? What did you? How did this? Because like after this, you go and do Mortal Inference is only three years. later what happened this has such fire in the year before was black pink panther two was 2009 the year before

Starting point is 00:10:50 this he made pig panther two i don't want to diminish like agent cody banks was 2003 what led to this how did this get like did did will smith work with him and he's like trust me he's more than agent cody banks how did this happen i want to know because i mean like there is again like what feels like and maybe it's just by the strength of the setting but like there's something about this movie again part of the conundrum of the title karate kid is that karate is a i believe a japanese art form they're obviously there in china he's learning kung fu um so you know karate kid has you know america then you go to karate kid too and you go to japan uh and so like this had a quality to me that reminded me of hong kong and and chinese movies you know martial arts flicks and stuff of

Starting point is 00:11:40 the past which is just one of those things that you would assume like a very well read and who knows maybe our boy's work is like a big you know Kung Fu Hong Kong cinema guy but like it I am perplexed to learn the rest of the filmog because nothing that

Starting point is 00:11:57 lines up with this any either direction prior or after like I thought he might have worked with Jackie Chan I thought he might have worked with Will Smith I thought like maybe he directed some classic martial arts films no no Agent Cody Banks and no disrespect to Agent Cody Banks heads out there but boy

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Starting point is 00:16:24 should we react to rain of fire on the channel you let us know love to watch rate of fire with everyone but yeah I I adored this I feel like when movies are really bad I don't have a lot to say when movies are really good, it's harder to contextualize because it's just an emotion. I just love this. I had a problem with the abyss

Starting point is 00:16:43 where I was like, cinema! This is similar where it's just like this is why you go to the movies. I feel like a Tom Cruise interstitial or like Nicole Kidman. I'm just like, this is what movies are about.

Starting point is 00:16:53 Like it just is great. It felt kind of classic in its own way. You know, the only thing that's kind of dated about it at all really is the music. It's the music and not even all of the music. I'm not even all the music, but there are a couple songs that was like, 2010 is full. But it, like, feels like it has like this film look to it, which I imagine they might have shot on on film.

Starting point is 00:17:12 And like, you know, 2010 is a probability anyway. And like, yeah, like the travel log that this movie, like there's the one moment with the snake where I think we were both like, are we, have we found it? Have we found the ceiling of, yeah, believability? But even that got tied well together. And, you know, again, you get such a portrait for what the family life is like without ever having to do. any of the melodramatic, like, film school type stuff with it. Yeah, I'm like, this really felt like a just a lived-in, you know, charismatic movie. And it still embodied, like, I love the jacket on, jacket off thing.

Starting point is 00:17:47 Like, the way that they, again, the way they transcribed all the karate kids stuff. Like, this is almost a masterclass in how to approach something like this. And I wonder what the, maybe there was a sort of triumvirate of direction in terms of, like, you saw those set photos. I mean, clearly Will and Jada are on set a lot. Clearly, Jackie Chan must have some kind of input as to how this movie is being made. But it did feel like this sort of like communal effort, I guess. And I had a point with that.

Starting point is 00:18:16 Yeah, like the way it, clearly you know that the wax on wax off is happening. And he's even waxing the car at one point. But like all the beats are there. So cheek because then that car becomes such a traumatic scene. Yeah. And like almost never is the movie going like, it's a karate. Right. Even the kick, like the sweep the leg became a sweeping move,

Starting point is 00:18:35 and instead of the kick, it's an over the head, like, and that's also like an escalation, right? Like the movie needs escalation. Oh, man, it was good. And if you didn't know, you wouldn't know. And it would be fine. Everything would still work. You would just assume that the jacket thing is just,

Starting point is 00:18:49 that's just what they came up with. And you would just assume that there is, this was the move. Like you, if you didn't know to go, oh, they subverted this week, the leg thing. It doesn't hurt the movie. Yeah. So, like, it's, I like that this. wasn't hammy about it and it was yeah like perfectly tempered to be a translation of this for the now

Starting point is 00:19:08 I uh I am so curious about the new and now um same actually this is this is boozy because like it's weird I'm still sort of trepidatious about like more trepidious because of how good this was like now that I've seen now that I love the original and now that I've seen this one now them coming together I'm like it's either going to be my favorite movie or I'm to be like never should they're great because they're they're so they're unto themselves yeah they're related but they're unto themselves and like Cobra Kai succeeded in capturing all of the flavors

Starting point is 00:19:36 of the Ralph Machio encapsulated series. Yeah. And some of those tones are quite broad, broader than this. And so now I actually am sort of like, what the hell is Ralph Machio going to do with Jackie Chan to justify them both being together

Starting point is 00:19:52 and like what's going to... Also, Ralph Macho's refusal to age throws off the whole chronology. That man is not in his 60s. That is a, that as a beautiful 40-year-old man. But hey, Jackie Chan also. He's only now starting to look. He's finally like, oh, I've watched you my whole life.

Starting point is 00:20:07 He's starting to now look the age he's supposed to be in this movie. Yes, for 15 years ago. It's like, all right, Jackie Chan, ease up. I appreciate your moisturizing routine, teach me. I wonder if Jaden will show up because James seems like he's not doing much acting. No, he's not like a spiritual journey. This is like between Pursuit of Happiness and this. Yeah, what a career.

Starting point is 00:20:28 And I'm good. And I don't hate after Earth. After Earth gets a lot of crap and I feel like a lot of the crap attributed to After Earth is to other things I think especially those accents they chose they forced upon them but but like as of this and as of

Starting point is 00:20:42 pursuit of happiness and this I'm like wow what a what a natural actor yeah and what a beautiful the tears the joy the the perseverance the pain like all of it man it's great in this era and this was when the show was really popular I would have loved time travel casting it's one of my favorite things time

Starting point is 00:21:00 travel casting. Obviously, the ultimate time travel casting is Jackie Chan and that's him as Goku. Obviously, but and Jetley is Fujita. Okay. But I mean, time travel wise, early 2000s Jackie Chan, early 2000s Jet Lee, Goku and Fujita, good goddamn. Let's go. I'm watching the one

Starting point is 00:21:16 around this time. Oh, man, exactly. That's exactly. And that's the closest straggables that we've ever gotten. Yeah. The one is the closest. New metal musical all. But time travel casting is the last thing I'm going to say, oh, the dream. Last thing I'm going to say for a wrap out of this video. At the time, who would jaden smith been perfect for static shock oh my god static shock how cool would it have been

Starting point is 00:21:38 to have static like two or three years after this so he's like 15 14 15 which it wouldn't have been peak static shock popularity so i'd have to like slide that time travel a bit but static shock dude i'm still waiting for them to do some something with static shock but yeah uh thank you very much for watching this journey thank you for uh joining us at the end for a little uh time travel casting please leave a comment below if you're excited for the new karate kid two branches one tree i am very i love that tagline it's a great taglines in years to the point where i feel like i have to put it like it's like alien versus predator like whoever wins we lose i will i will never say just a vp i'll say aliens versus predator whoever wins we lose her web really do be connecting

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