15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You
3. The Karate Kid
What It Suggests
That in this remake of the beloved 1980s classic, there is a kid and he is taught karate, just as he was in the original by the charming, enigmatic Mr Miyagi.
The Truth
It's perhaps a harmless lie, but there is no karate in The Karate Kid. There's a kid and a Mr Miyagi, though he's called Mr Han here (perhaps to draw a distinction between Jackie Chan's new version).
The film instead focuses on Jaden Smith's kid learning Kung Fu, which is definitely not Karate and comes from an entirely different country. For a while, the idea of changing the title was apparently entertained by Sony, but producer Jerry Weintraub rejected the idea.
It was known as The Kung Fu Dream in China and Best Kid in Japan and South Korea, which is also a lie, to be honest.