Kung fu hustle: “Karate Kid” remake is too cynical

Published June 9, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

Like its predecessor, 2010's Harald Zwart–directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother (Taraji P. Henson) are introduced in the Detroit apartment he grew up in, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is g...

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