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Oblique, friendly, aggressive: In "The Forbidden Kingdom", the martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li first time in a movie together. With surprisingly unspectacular, but heart-warming results.

 

Fans have long waited for, that the two stars most famous export of the Asian martial arts cinema is once done. Well, it finally happened, because even movie heroes are not younger. Jet Li is the end of the month 46 years old, Jackie Chan has recently become even 55 - because it is no longer quite so easy as before, twice during a flight Saltos a dozen opponents in the most elegant way niederzustrecken.

From the two are retired but still far away, and you can see them also in Rob Minkoff playful Kung-Fu film "Forbidden Kingdom" to. Their superbly choreographed martial arts deposits are made redundant and lovingly as ever - though perhaps less spectacular than in the past.

Irrespective of this: A rather ambitious first project as the "Forbidden Kingdom" would have wanted the two, because the film is at times being so silly, that already some 16-year-old too old for him should feel. Center of the story is the Boston teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), in his favorite Chinese pawnshop a mysterious Kampfstab discovered that the age-old shop owner, but only wants to move out when he was a little later by Jason archenemy Lupo shot.

As it turns out, Jason is to cover the Kampfstab its original owner, a certain monkey king, back - which is why he recently after scuffle with Lupo suddenly with rod in a distant Asian world teleported from other times, where the evil of Jadekriegsherren been petrified monkey king a few centuries, waiting for its liberation. To help him be the happy warrior Weinfan and Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), a young warrior with a pretty name Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) and a quiet, but helpful Monk (Jet Li), the inexperienced Jason just in the Arts of Kung-Fu introduce.

For a variety of Chinese legends has Author John Fusco's screenplay declaredly gebastelt, which is also nothing in a weird resemblance to "The Wizard of Oz" changes and no excuse for the bombastic nonsense is that the characters sometimes have to give. For some funny moments provides professional clown Jackie Chan, but not later than the scene in which Jet Li in his face pinkelt (!), Goes well but the most laughter.

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Otherwise offers "Forbidden Kingdom" friendly, pleasant brutalitätsfreie entertainment for the younger generation and for the child in one or the other man. Genre fans will be at this meeting of two giants anyway quite lost their hearts are warm. Perhaps there is even a next time then, but make sure in an appropriately gigantic environment.