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Karate Kid: Legends

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7.0/10 • 86

2025-05-081h 34m

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When masters unite a new legacy begins.

After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition – but his skills alone aren't enough. Li's kung fu teacher Mr. Han enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.

Directors
Jonathan Entwistle
Writters
Rob Lieber
Characters
Robert Mark Kamen
Editors
Rob Lieber, Dana E. Glauberman

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Jackie Chan

    Jackie Chan

    Mr. Han

  2. Ben Wang

    Ben Wang

    Li Fong

  3. Ralph Macchio

    Ralph Macchio

    Daniel LaRusso

  4. Joshua Jackson

    Joshua Jackson

    Victor Lipani

  5. Sadie Stanley

    Sadie Stanley

    Mia Lipani

  6. Ming-Na Wen

    Ming-Na Wen

    Li Fong's Mother

  7. Aramis Knight

    Aramis Knight

    Conor Day

  8. Wyatt Oleff

    Wyatt Oleff

    Alan

  9. Shaunette Renée Wilson

    Shaunette Renée Wilson

    Ms Morgan

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CinemaSerf

Jun 4, 2025

6/10

The marketing around this has been terrible, I thought, so I was not really expecting much - but it’s not so very bad after all. That’s almost entirely down to a cheeky and engaging effort from Ben Wang as the young “Li Fong” who has recently (and reluctantly) arrived in Los Angeles from Beijing with his doctor mother (Ming-Na Wen) after a family tragedy which we go into a little more, later. He befriends pizza family “Victor” (Joshua Jackson) and his teenage daughter “Mia” (Sadie Stanley) but quickly - and quite brutally - discovers that former prize-fighting dad is in hock to a loan shark and so wants to try to punch his way out of his problems. When he realises that the young lad has some skill with kung-fu, they decide to team up and that’s the start of their escapades that ultimately pitches the new arrival against local champion “Conor” (Aramis Knight). For that challenge, he is lucky to have the help of his visiting Chinese mentor “Shifu” (Jackie Chan) who manages to elicit the assistance of the original “Karate Kid” himself (Ralph Macchio) so he may practise the more cerebral “Miyagi” form of karate. Predictable? Well, yes and Macchio is about as wooden as one of his late, lamented, master’s bonsai trees but there’s a little gentle mischief from Chan and just about enough action to stop the melodrama from swamping the thing. You will probably never recall it half an hour after you’ve seen it, but it’s is probably second to the original (1984) and passes a couple of hours effortlessly.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$45,000,000.00
Revenue
$51,487,036.00
Keywords
new york citymartial artskung fumentorkaratebeijing, chinamartial arts tournamentmartial arts trainingmoving to another country