KenFlo not impressed by new “Karate Kid”

Have you seen the trailer for the new “Karate Kid” remake starring spawn of Will Smith’s sack, Jaden Smith, and martial arts god Jackie Chan? If not, enjoy as much as one humanly can while they are being force fed excrement. Check out the trailer and Florian’s comments after the jump!

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Did you make it through the whole trailer without laughing your ass off? I know I didn’t! This just looks wrong in every way. What age group is this targeting exactly? Fans of nostalgia are not going to want to see a movie about a middle school aged kid (if not younger) wandering around in China and learning Kung Fu, NOT karate, from Jackie Chan. I will give credit to the end of the trailer though, I did chuckle there quite a bit.

Luckily, I was not the only person to be disgusted by this atrocity to the senses. Kenny Florian, host of Inside MMA and UFC fighter, also managed to sit through the video and did not like what he saw. At around 2 PM EST today, KenFlo put on his critic pants and began with this comment –

“So in the new “Karate Kid” the kid moves to China, learns Kung Fu & is taught by Jackie Chan. Shouldn’t it be called Kung Fu kid?!”

Which has since been rapidly followed up with the following excellent quotes:

It’s like when my mom used to clean my Bjj gi’s for me & tell me my karate clothes are ready. Know ur martial arts people. Karate = japan.

& another thing. High school drama (karate kid) is more interesting than kindergarten drama. New karate kid looks 6 yrs old.

And damnit, I wish Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) was still alive. He would not stand for this insulting remake.

Another thing Hollywood, go ahead & try to out do the Halloween scene where cobrakai dresses up as skeletons & beats up Daniel-San. I dare u!

You can read his comments at http://twitter.com/Kenny_Florian, which carry onto his facebook as well. I completely agree and support every statement that Florian has made regarding this movie, and it really makes me wonder what drugs are they doing in Hollywood and why are they not testing producers over there and bugging Sean Sherk and Nick Diaz to name a few.

Florian also posed this deep thinking question which I ask you, fellow fight nerds – “Ok serious question. Who wins in the cage? Ralph Macchio or Jaden Smith.” So who takes it, the original Karate Kid, or the prepubescent son of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

PS I apologize on behalf of this post – it is a slow news week and KenFlo is the man so this needs to be posted for posterity!