So Dre arrives in Beijing, friendless and alienated, and enrolls in some sort of international school. He hates his life. But then he meets a cute girl, a violin prodigy named Meiying (angel-faced Wenwen Han), whose disapproving father will soon complicate their budding relationship. Then, unfortunately, he meets a less-charming group of local hooligans led by an older kid named Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), who immediately start pushing him around. Dre tries to retaliate with some meager karate moves he learned off television back in the States, but the hooligans just sneer. Karate is a trifling Japanese discipline; the native Chinese martial art is kung fu (or, more precisely, I suppose, wushu). As we see, the movie's title is entirely vestigial.
Still, the movie flows. And the classical simplicity of the story leads us along smoothly to the high-flying tournament confrontation that concludes the picture. (Although the famous "crane kick" of the 1984 film, which belatedly crops up at this juncture, comes out of nowhere and for no particular reason.) Chan himself, who's now 56 years old, doesn't whip out any of the astonishing acrobatics for which he's become famous over the last 40-odd years; but any slack in that department is skillfully taken up by Jaden Smith, who underwent what must have been intense training to develop whiplash martial skills of his own. As an actor, with his thoughtful composure and subtle humor, he strongly resembles his father, Will Smith, who co-produced the movie with his son's mom, Jada Pinkett Smith. Happily, what they have wrought is not an exercise in rich-and-famous nepotism -- it's a showcase for a worthy heir. The kung-fu kid delivers.
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