#Kung fu yoga soundtrack movie#
A crowd of people suddenly shows up and everyone throws a giant, impromptu-yet-completely-choreographed dance number – including the villain, who I guess learned his lesson?įor a movie about an action-oriented archaeologist, Kung Fu Yoga resists the urge to rip off Indiana Jones for a while, before succumbing to it near the very end, blatantly stealing the “a scepter reveals something secret when light passes through a jewel” scene from Raiders and the “step on the correct symbol on the ground or a trap will open” from Last Crusade.
The mountain temple fight doesn’t even have a proper conclusion. The good guys have the advantage during the entire fight, but the next time we see them, they’re all tied up. In the ice cave, the obvious villain sends his henchmen to capture the heroes. It also doesn’t help that many of the fights feel inconsequential. The fight in the ice cave, the Indian marketplace and the mountain temple are kind of fun, but there’s also an extended fight with a pack of CGI hyenas which seemingly goes for all eternity and a car chase featuring CGI stunts so stupid that even Dominic Toretto would scoff at them. The only thing that’s even mildly entertaining about Kung Fu Yoga are the fight sequences, but even those are hit-and-miss. The jokes are as vapid and stale as the characters and the plot might as well be irrelevant. There’s also some patronizing preaching about how greed is bad and knowledge is good and we should treasure our history and bla-bla-blah. What do most people associate with China? Kung fu! What do most people associate with India? Yoga! A movie where the two cultures meet – Kung Fu Yoga! Haha, kill me now. In that respect, the title is actually fairly representative of the movie itself. Kung Fu Yoga’s attempt at a cultural exchange is superficial at best and mostly consists of Jack or Ashmita spouting random trivia about either Chinese martial arts or yoga, with maybe a bit of questionable history sprinkled in for good measure. It’s not like movie goes out all out with a romance between them, it just really felt the need to objectify Patani a few times, complete with swooning music. There are several scenes of a 60+ year old Jackie Chan creepily lusting over Disha Patani, who is in her early twenties. The lion, named Jackie (because of course he is) is there because the movie needed something to put on the cover and also so that viewers can witness the cinematic masterpiece of comedic CGI lion vomit. Kung Fu Yoga runs the gambit there – there are fake CGI elephants, horses, wolves, snakes, hyenas and of course, the fake CGI lion that Jack inexplicably finds in a car he steals in Dubai. It also sets up the movie’s running theme of fake CGI animals. The opening sequence manages the incredible feat of being really uninteresting having someone jump from elephant to elephant while on horseback. The movie opens with a five minute flashback to ancient times that’s either entirely bad CGI or uses so much of it that it might as well have been. There’s something about a diamond that gets stolen, an ancient army in an underground ice cave and a hidden mountain temple.
Jackie Chan stars as one of China’s greatest archaeologists, professor Jack Chan (yes, really, they were that lazy) who teams up with Indian professor Ashmita (Disha Patani) in the hopes of finding some treasure. There are a couple of decent fight scenes in it, but they’re simply not worth your time.
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Kung Fu Yoga is a relentlessly boring movie full of fake CGI animals, crap dialogue and a half-hearted attempt at a cultural exchange between China and India. By Stanyo Zhelev Disha Patani, film, film review, Jackie Chan, Kung Fu Yoga, Stanley Tong
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