Karate Kid Remake Is Too Cynical to Catch a Fly with Chopsticks
Published June 10, 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 that he grew up in, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is going...