After watching the Karate Kid, featuring Jackie Chan and Aiden Smith, my first instinct was to compare it to the Eighties` version, the one with Mr. Miyagi, played by Pat Morita. After I concluded that neither movie could be classified as the better movie, I separated the two again, and took a step back to see each one individually.

The older version has become a classic. Who couldn`t fall in love with Mr. Miyagi`s carefree attitude, mild personality, and self-serving training techniques? Those aspects alone were able to make some of the holes in the plot-line acceptable, or at least tolerable. It made me want to become a karate instructor just so I can have complete strangers do all the chores I don`t want to do myself. Danny LaRusso felt like a real person, showing the complete range of emotions of your average 16 year old.

Full review:

http://thesop.org/story/movie/2010/06/30/dre-parker-the-new-karate-kid.php