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THE KARATE KID remake trailer makes a case for being called THE WUSHU KID

Hey folks, Harry here with possibly the most ill named remake of all time. Now - I know it isn't new to bring up that THE KARATE KID remake is annoyingly unneeded - but having looked at the trailer over at ComingSoon.net - It just underlines how woefully awful the title is. In the original - Pat from Happy Days was teaching Daniel - KARATE... thus... KARATE KID. Here - we have a kid moving to Beijing from the U.S. - who is getting picked on, ends up learning what sure as hell looks like Wushu from Jackie Chan. That said - it doesn't look bad, I am actually really digging Jackie Chan in the trailer - I love the seriousness in which he's dealing with Will Smith's kid... but the title is just grating. Why not call it, THE KUNG FU KID? That is not KARATE - and the words and their actions are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT - and culturally pretty damn far apart. Other than the title being assbackwards... what do you folks think of the trailer?

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