MOVIE TRAILERS

Ok, I think I'm missing something... Is this an official trailer because they're using music from the Hero soundtrack. Other than that, im glad Jackie Chan is playing a serious role other than the redundant american action/comedies.

It looks like Kung Fu Panda

"Is this an official trailer because they're using music from the Hero soundtrack." Studios recycle music for trailers all the time. The Requiem for a Dream music was used for the Sunshine trailer, and I've lost count of how many films in the 80's & 90's used the music from Aliens. Other than that: Jet Li + Jackie Chan = FUCKING KUNG FU EPIC!!!

That white guy looks like an idiot in a movie like this. It just doesn't look right.

i would be pist off if they made a italian mob movie and a black guy was the main character. they should have a asain main character for this movie.

Name the other kung fu movies where the white guy is the hero? Crouching Tiger, perhaps? Or, oooo...Enter the Dragon. That's one, right? And I mean real kung fu fighting movies, not just one that feature a bit of fighting. And this one looks like a semi-real one. I'm not saying it's time for one with a white guy hero, I agree that he looks very out of place, but come on. Be real. It's not like they're making them left and right.

man, I agree with you all. wth is this Hollywood bullshit with the white guy coming in to save the day? this is really offensive. first of all, it's an insult to kung fu fans having a non-kung fu practitioner be the main character. I'd be more open to seeing this movie if the white guy was a real martial artist, like that French guy Leito from Banlieue 13 (District 13B). In fact, he would've been perfect if they really did need to throw a white guy in ancient China, for whatever anachronistically ludicrous reason. That guy really kicks ass! If you haven't seen his moves, you need to rent this movie. secondly, from a larger historical perspective, this is more of the same cultural imperialist crap that's been happening for centuries. so Chinese people can't take care of their own problems? they have to wait for a white savior to come along? look up paternalism and "white man's burden" and how white Europeans/Americans justified slavery, colonialism, and subjugation of non-European peoples in the New World as a sort of noble enterprise and just duty. bringing enlightenment and reason to savages, and all that. Third, I have extremely low expectations for this movie, as anything (with a few exceptions) involving Asian stars directed by Hollywood gets mangled into a steaming pile of shit. you gotta operate in your milieu and do what you know. Jet Li has been making garbage since he got into Hollywood, selling out for a taste of that American dollar. Name 1 good movie he's done in America (ok.. I'll admit I liked Danny the Dog/Unleashed). Jackie Chan has long been Hollywood's clown, pairing up with wise-asss like Chris Tucker and Owen Wilson. other HK/Chinese cinema figures like John Woo and Chow Yun Fat both learned from their mistakes and went back to HK/China after a string of Hollywood failures and soul-less films. Chow then went back and did Crouching Tiger with Ang Lee, a Taiwanese-American, filming in China, speaking Chinese, and the thing was a big hit. Chinese actors acting well in Chinese?? Who knew? Fourth: THIS IS DIRECTED BY ROB MINKOFF! WTF?? Director of Stuart Little and Lion King. I don't like passing judgment before seeing a film, but ROB EFFING MINKOFF??? Are you serious? Back to the "stick with what you know" bit I said earlier. Sorry, this movie looks like this movie'll suck more than a $10 whore at a Bissell convention. You can bet the white guy gets the girl at the end, and the Asian guys get blue balls. (See Shanghai Knights, Balls of Fury ... oh, and virtually every damn movie with a white guy and hot Asian chick).

oh might i remind you. dragonball movie is coming up. played by a white guy named goku and ends up with a girl named chi chi whom they had to make asian. go figure

Sad, sad, sad... just like most of the posters here, am very disappointed with the whole set up. What an insult to "Journey to the West" ... note the irony ".. to the West". While Jackie Chan has sold his dignity and respect to the US ages ago (remembered him saying in Shanghai noon "... this is not China" or something like that when he was asked to perform some Chinese tradition), I'm surprised Jet Li, supposedly a "Chinese-philosopher" and Buddhist, followed suit. Furthermore, although Journey to the West is considered a fiction by some... many Chinese folks actually pray to the Monkey God. Imagine making a film about an Asian dude saving Jesus or some crap like that.. I would like to see the reaction from the public then... I mean come'n, at least show some frigging respect to the majority of your country men's traditions and beliefs. Oh well, money rules I suppose... Well done Jackie and Jet...

Seen the film. It was shite! White boy looks and acts gay. What a disapontment. All of us asians were disapointed big time!

ok it sounds great and all but all that stuff about the monkey king being trapped in the stone by the evil jade emperor is stupid because in the actual story monkey king was trapped there because he caused a lot of chaos in heaven so he was punished there.. so to have this movie is kind of messed up but if it was written differently it would have been better.. and not to mentioned that it has to be a white boy in there.. come on give us asians credit its our stuff so screw the white kid.

Wow... Amazing... I knew there was bigotry in America still, but I have never figured it would be this blatant- although you certainly try to be subtle about it- "A FUCKEN WHITE GUY ( NO OFFENCE )" -Brian post number 11 ... and before you come out with how you are all justified and SO obviously not racist, you are judging this movie to be complete shit for the sole reason that a white guy is the main character, never mind the plot or writing or even the action in the movie- it has to suck because instead of having a complete Asian cast, they slipped in the white guy. God forbid the movie be about a white person who respects Asian cinematography who then learns more about Chinese culture and their way of honor (although if you guys are any example I seriously doubt there is much honor left in the world). You judge entirely based on how this movie looks and a minimal knowledge of what it is about and your main complaint is the ethnicity of the actors so I ask you, how are you not racists and bigots. this is the first and probably the only movie Jackie and Jet will do together and even though I have never gone out of my way to see a movie because Jackie Chan was in it, I can't say that I hate any of his movies... why, because I don't hold them to some ridiculously high standard of being completely devoid of American influence. May I remind you that Jackie Chan is American. Of course his films have American influence... I am sure he will always pride his Asian roots, but America isn’t the crap shoot all of you people make it out to be, its major problem happens to be people like you who constantly demean it and its values by casting such unfair judgments, of course America is bad, because it isn’t anything like the country my ancestors fled from. Sure it had its spotty moments in which it was depraved and inhuman, but no more or less than the history of other countries. But getting back to the movie- it has Jet f'n Li in it... even if you hate Jackie Chan; you know it will be an epic movie with Jet Li in a Chinese environment with a sense of Chinese culture. Chan is just icing on the cake, and what a delicious cake it will be from what I have seen so far. So enough of this "not being racist"- Jin post number 25 (who had written how he thought the movie would be awesome until he saw the white guy) and give the movie a fair chance. Stop Whining!

They should have filmed this in China and in Chinese like they did with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's just that much more insulting when a movie delegates the two most famous asian martial arts actors in the world as supporting actors to a no-name white kid. He (apparently according to the synopsis/trailer) saves the world and gets the girl. Typical. It's a transparent attempt to reach a target audience of young white males and the not so subtle racist undertone is that an asian male lead wouldn't do as well in the box office even though it would make a hell of a lot more sense. China isn't some fantasy land like in Narnia or Lord of the Rings. Film makers are treating it as such. This isn't an exploration of Chinese culture. It's an exploitation of its elements to make a cliche film that caters to fantasy viewers. Few cultural elements are accurate and who the hell is going to honestly remember anything beyond the awesome action sequences and the hot chick? The same elements are present in Star Trek when Captain Kirk gets some blue alien chick or in LoTR where Aragorn gets this elven princess or in any number of films where the main white male character gets the foreign girl. Harold & Kumar is absolutely the only movie where asian male leads aren't typecast as villains or martial artists. I dare anyone to find another example. Here's a thought. How about using an asian hero and a white kid as comic relief? Too out-of-the box? Or would it offend too many white movie goers sensibilities? Is Hollywood racist or is Hollywood just right and the majority of their audiences are racist?

This film is very very nice.

First off, a target audience is key in any marketing strategy. So who were they targeting Americans or idiots? Obviously one in the same. That's the reason that a fairly unknown white kid was cast as the lead, to tap into that market. As for the white kid being the hero, after I watched the movie I believed that all the main characters in this movie were the heroes. Yes they could have cast an asian in the role of the main character and I would have been happier with the movie, but would it have made as much money in the box office? Rememeber we're marketing to American idiots here. And Jackie Chan being comedy relief strikes people as paculiar? I find that hard to swallow when Jackie is legitamately a funny guy. Even his movies filmed in China before he ever came to America were full of Jackie doing hilarious things. Should this be some sort of reflection on all Chinese people? I think that is in itself a very stereotypical (which leads to racism) way of thinking. Jackie is funny period and expecting him to be something else goes against one of his greatest charactor attributes. As for making a white guy the comic relief does anyone here who has seen Shanghai Noon or Shanghai Knights really think that wasn't Owen Wilsons role? Even though Shanhai Knights was fairly crappy the former was a good movie. It may be even funnier if they cast Owen Wilson as the monkey king hahahaha, bet that comment will piss ya guys off.

White guy aside, this movie just wasn't very good. I mean really, first time Jackie Chan and Jet Li have appeared in a film together and this is the product? We (the fans) deserve more. We deserve a real film, not some PG family crap with a punk ass american white kid as the main protagonist. Really..someone earlier made the comment that all of us are racist for saying that but who is really racist here? This film did $100 mil worldwide, which isn't bad by any means, but we're talking about a film with the two biggest martial arts film stars of all time (jackie chan alone being arguably the biggest ACTION star of all time) and that's all the film made? There is supposedly another J & J Project in the works and i am seriously praying that they do it for real this time

I watched this move, and I loved it! It's really funny, sure, the white guy might  not really fit in the setting and surrounding, but the movie is still fairly good! I highly recommend this for you to watch! Give it a try!