The Forbidden Kingdom

Right, so I caught the 3rd major Chinese epic last Friday. It was actually a meetup for Junior's birthday but me and Pock decided to let him have some lovey-dovey time with Pei and meetup for a show with the two of them later at night instead.

Five of us (Ju, Pei, Pock, Kelly and me) celebrated and cut a (really) small cake for Ju at Carl's Jr. We forgot Ju didn't eat fruits and bought him a strawberry cake! Ah well 11+ years of friendship says he has to forgive our momentary lapse of judgement. After that, 5 of us (Pock got ps-ed by Emily/Ein/whoever so we had one seat to put our bags!) went to catch the show..

The Forbidden Kingdom

Don't you just absolutely hate it when movies have to be catered to the American audience? This movie is supposed to be a historical tie-up with two kung-fu legends with the setting based in Ancient China and guess what, some lame ang mo has to show up and everybody has to end up speaking English. Talk about ridiculous atrocities. Hey, if we can cater to your American shows featuring endless hordes of ang mos speaking English, you guys should at least have the decency to cater to us as well and speak freakin' Chinese when in China!

Anyway, on to the movie itself, it starts Jet Li and Jackie Chan and the movie is basically about an ang mo kid finding himself as the chosen one to bring Sun Wukong's little stick back to him in order for him to beat up a (bad) heavenly warlord. Ang mo kid starts off not knowing kungfu and gets his ass whipped by other ang mo bullies, zips off to Ancient China, returns stick, beats the crap out of warlord and finally goes back to his own time and proceeds to beat crap out of other ang mo bullies.

Well despite my grievances about the ang mo being in the movie, it's actually a pretty decent show with lots of humour thrown in for good measure. Plot's pretty cliched and the beginning and ending does not do justice to the strong middle part of the story.

Overall, I give this movie 7/10 stars only for being able to watch the two kungfu masters in the same show.