This movie sure looks like it's gonna blows, HARD!

I guess being Will Smith's son, is reason enough to screw a movie and not cast a proper actor in the proper "age range", all of this kid's job he has being extremelly annoying, now we will see him as the lead for this movie? When he was acting in "The Day the Earth Stood Still", pretty much everybody was hoping to see him killed (in the movie of course), as annoying as it was his performance.

Lil Smith was the most annoying charcter in The Day The Earth Stood Still. I wanted to kill him the first time he opened his mouth. Must be nice having his daddy be famous and getting him jobs.

Okay, other than the old guy teaches kid how to fight by doing housework, there really is little connection to the original film. So, we don't really need to ruin my childhood by calling it The Karate Kid. Please, Sony, for me, call it something else. I mean, Kickboxer is about an old Asian guy teaching karate to an inexperienced person. Why can't we call it Young Kickboxer.

I agree with all of you, but that's the problem with todays films. We have been seeing a slew of movie remakes because film writers are like " hey. Instead of coming up with my own ideas I'm gonna find a popular movie from the past or totally desecrate the first movie by making an unnecessary sequel." It's down right stupid and pisses people off. If your gonna remake a movie do it to a movie that sucks to begin with like Battlefield Earth. That was probably one of the biggest pieces of crap I have ever seen. Remake that and tell John Travolta to try and redeem himself for all of scientology. Also, if your going to make a sequel do it to a movie whos ending left viewers completely confused because it didn't answer questions that needed to be answered. QUIT RUINING GREAT FILMS. ESPECIALLY WHOEVER WROTE ANY OF THE SANDLOT SEQUELS.

I understand where you all are coming from, after reviewing plot line and everything all I can gather is that Will Smith is trying to ruin one of the greatest movies of al time just by keeping the name Karate Kid instead of changing it to something like Kung-Fu Kid or whatever, as well as casting his son as the lead, now from what i've heard the script is solid and with proper casting and title change it could be good, but i must say with the direction its going this will be one of the biggest disasters since Star Wars Episode 1

No more remakes! Why can't the film be about years later, Daniel all grown up, says farewell to his Sensei Mr. Miyagi at the cemetary after his death. Daniel decides to open a dojo to teach others karate. He then runs into a particular teenager in the street with an attitude due to being picked on by gangsters. Talks the teenager into training, for self-defense and confidence. And so on. Some remakes usually don't work out.