What's "Karate" Got to Do With It?

The last week has been a mix of my wife and I abruptly moving with nothing packed and being sick, so I apologize for my extended absence. The thing that got the blog engine going again is the below-embedded trailer for The Kung Fu Kid. I call it that because the movie about the Chinese art of Kung Fu, not the Japanese art of Karate.

Even though the movie appears to be a very similar remake of Academy Award-nominee The Karate Kid (for Pat Morita), there's not a lick of Karate in the trailer. Unless all of a sudden, the Big Competition is Karate-based and they throw out all the Kung Fu, the title is flat-out wrong and insulting. It's like making a movie about Japanese Emperor Tokugawa and calling it The Greatest King of China. That said, I still like the way the movie looks from this trailer and plan to watch it, but this really, really bothers me.