The forbidden kingdom - 2008

I like this film, it's funny :-) funny as all Jackie Chan's films are funny, plus this also has Jet Li in it, which makes everything better :-)
The story: young Jason is a kid bullied by young criminals who almost dies the night one of them shoots the old owner of his favourite kung-fu-dvds shop, but instead the staff the old man (Charlie Chan) gave him transports Jason (Michael Angarano) to another world where he starts a mission to take the weapon back to Monkey King (Jet Li) :-) who has been betrayed by the evil Jade Captain (or Jade Warlord - Collin Chou) and turned into stone, since he can't be killed.
Jason is helped in his mission by drunk Yan (Jackie Chan), by Golden Sparrow (Yifei Liu), a young orphan girl seeking vengeance against the captain that destroyed her life killing her family, and the silent monk (Jet Li), apparently a monk whose mission is to find the staff guardian and yes, free the Monkey King.
After having completed his mission Jason goes back to where he was, with that shooter-bully beating him, but this time he has learned to defend himself and beats him, right before being reassured by the ambulance guys that the old man will make it :-)
Only annoying things: that the stupid american kid thinks he knows so much about kung-fu because he has seen all Bruce Lee's movies and has played Virtual Fighter *rollingeyes* and the same stupidity when he finds himself among chinese people who obviously speak chinese and he starts speaking slooowly saying Ipausedon'tpauseunderstand... *sigh* what he didn't understand is that it was him not knowing the right language, not them, and again him when after only two days of training he's all tired and bored and complaining..
Funny things: Jason when they both teach him :lol: even Sparrow laughs :-)
the fight between Chan and Li before realizing they're on the same side :-D
Other things I like: the fact that there is the Monkey King with his staff made me think of all the Son Goku stories, and seeing him with his staff most of all reminded me of the manga Saijuki's Goku :-D
everyone's look, so cool; the place, the scenery, so beautiful; the drunken style :lol: Chan was great here :-D ; the girls, so pretty and so cool; those white hair and everything she did with it, again very cool; Jet Li's laugh scene, because I like to see him laugh; the fact that the old owner doesn't die :-) ; the fact that the Captain is killed with Sparrow's jade weapon before she dies. I was sorry for her, but it was foretold, it was not a surprise. The monk had warned her not to seek vengeance, but only justice.