I felt it ended a bit abruptly, it's a tad silly, and I get a feeling the writers don't like China. That being said, it's kinda fun actually. Jaden is a little bit obnoxious to begin with but I felt as the film progressed, so did his acting talent. Jackie Chan pulls a pretty great performance out of the bag and wasn't simply there to get a token fight scene, which was a nice surprise. It's full of tropes and cliches but it's still fairly well done for what it is. Pleasant and entertaining.

has it's flaws, but I was entertained

Seeing this movie made me miss the original one.

At 2.5 hours, the Karate Kid has drawn out pacing and boring as hell subplots including a significant portion of the movie devoted to the soulless puppy love between the kid and a girl who does little more than giggle. The film also poses a somewhat creepy and Disneyfied version of a China devoid of pollution, squalor or repressive government. This remake of the 1980s original is bigger and more exotic, but inferior in pretty much all the ways that matter.

The movie is basically a showcase of Jaden's athleticism and personality. A few too many moments where he tries to be smooth and funny, but overall the story is moving and the kung-fu scenes (training especially) are excellently filmed.

Chan is good. Now the rest. The script writers wrote a script for Will Smith, then chucked it to his kid. The main characters are a couple of years too young. It should be called The Montage Kid. It looks good, like I say Chan does well, and it does have its moments but it's not a patch on The Karate Kid (84)

More a promotion of Jaden Smith than actually a serious reboot, but it's okay. The problem is this is not surprising as the 1984 feature at all, of course. Everybody knows how this is gonna end.

Surprisingly good!! Having grown up with the original, I wasn't too sure if I'd like it... but Will Smith's son is good as the karate kid with attitude, although the whole girl storyline is a bit unbelievable with a 14-year-old (also with the whole buffing up storyline!!). Jackie Chan was awesome!

Should've titled as 'the kung-fu kid', lol

Not that hot.

This is slightly better than the original...I think. Jaden is a good child actor.

Jackie Chan does KUNG FU! I love a movie that lies to you in the title. Neither Chan or Smith actually bombs, but none of them excel either. Not a bad movie, but should probably never have been made.

It would have been so easy to hate this but a). Jackie Chan is in it, b). the Smith kid ain't bad and has learnt the moves fully and c). it has the right level of Rocky-esque cheer on the underdog business at the end. Seriously, I got the full Eye of the Tiger going and the finisher? WEorthy of Mortal Kombat. (As a sidebar, Jaden pulls several expressions that are uncannily like his dad. Legacy in the making?)

well, I don't yet know how the old movie could be better

Obnoxious turn by Henson and a rather indulgent running time notwithstanding, your final judgment on the film will depend largely on your susceptibility to Smith's charisma. Anyone can acquire fighting skills but I thought he pulled off the part as a whole just fine as well. The film's real surprise (and, for those of us who've seen the original, there are few) is that Jackie Chan might just have a future ahead of him as a character actor: his English has improved and the man can act! Passable.

Contrary to popular belief, this movie is not ALL about Jaden. Jaden's love interest has quite possibly the largest head in the history of cinema. Jaden's rival is quite possibly the most evil-looking kid on the Eurasian supercontinent. Jaden's braids have quite possibly more twists than do exist in every Hitchcock movie ever made. Not that you'd be watching this for the dialogue, but flipping the subtitles on might quite possibly be the smartest thing you do before pressing play.

About on par with the original. Some of the updates are good, taking away some of the 80s cheese, but a lot of it is replaced by 2010 cheese so in a few years they'll both be equally silly, but in different ways. It's fine and watchable, though I can't believe it's over two hours long.

I haven't even seen this, but I still can't believe what a terrible idea a Karate Kid remake is. DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

eng; [The Karate Kid]; ein kleiner junge kommt nach china, findet eine freundin und legt sich mit den einheimischen karatekämpfern an, doch ein hausmeister hilft ihm kung-fu zu erlernen.;

I'll have to watch the original straight trough. I didn't have as big as a problem with The Karate Kid like most people did. Rather or not it's Kung Fu or Karate, the movie is average if not good.

I would have liked it more if it wasn't a remake of a better movie

Not a bad effort when everything suggested that this was a bad idea (like the fact that they do Kung Fu and not Karate.) At the end of the day "wax on, wax off" is still in the pop culture lexicon and this version will drift out of consciousness. Jaden Smith impressed, but this movie is seriously lacking in a 'You're the Best Around' montage. I also found it slightly disturbing to watch kids who looked this young beat up on each other.

Was this a brilliant film? No. Was it a good remake? Yeah, I think it was. A good remake will take the original concept of a film and add something new, something different, just something so it’s not just a complete rehash of a perfectly good movie that already exists. Some of the writing was a bit sloppy but yeah, it wasn’t a bad film. Oh, and as awesome as Jackie Chan is, he has nothing on Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi.

The Smiths aim for bigger box-office numbers by offering a secondhand fantasy that replaces academic hard work with the superficial amusement of martial arts self-defense.

I walked into 'The Karate Kid' with some pretty low expectations. Yet, this movie manages to be worse than I ever could have expected. Sixty minutes of content is stretched into two-and-a-half painful hours with extremely long establishing shots, awkward meet-cute and kissing scenes between pre-teens and Dre dancing or bitching that China isn't Detroit. There's so much that just doesn't feel right. That's all before the ending entirely ignores physics and cements this flick's status as terrible.

I liked this. Entertaining and the kid pulls it off.

BUT IT'S KUNG FU NOT KARATE!!!!!! seriously people, get over it.

Fuck it, I'm a hardcore fan of the original Karate Kid, so although I may resent this movie's existence, I still kinda liked it (despite the nightmare menagerie of crying infants and babbling toddlers I saw it with).