Movie Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
My guys took me out to see a movie in April. Our first one all year: The Forbidden Kingdom.
It is PG-13. I recall hearing a couple of swear words in the whole movie and featured drinking. (Drunken Monkey style.)
It is The Karate Kid meets The Wizard of Oz, meets The Neverending Story, meets Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Which you would think was an odd mix, but it worked and fun to watch It has very nice martial arts eye candy. A “Kick Flick” to say the least. The fight scenes were a nice mix of martial arts with fun magic wire work thrown in.
Jackie Chan, who just turned 54 on the 7th of April, still does amazing scenes that are funny and Jet Li, who just turned 45 on the 26th of April, is still super fast.
It’s a your basic boy with bullies on an adventure/learning martial arts growing into manhood type of story. It was a funny, cute, pretty clean story and we really enjoyed it. I love the training sessions because it is so cliche (cause it’s a lot of what we do), but they add some funny comedy to it too.
It was a fun sit back, relax and enjoy the story for 113 minutes.