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Must Watch: New, Better Forbidden Kingdom Trailer
FirstShowing.net — ... You can also watch The Forbidden Kingdom trailer in High Definition at Yahoo The Forbidden Kingdom is directed by Rob Minkoff, of Disney's The Lion King, Stuart Little, and The Haunted Mansion, and was written by John Fusco (Young Guns, Hidalgo). Wait, what, a Disney director doing a kung fu epic?! The fight choreography in the film was done by Yuen Wo Ping, who choreographed the complete Matrix trilogy and both Kill Bill movies. The Forbidden ...

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IFC: Indie Eye — ... Trailer du jour: For "The Forbidden Kingdom," here. Director Rob Minkoff, of "The Lion King" and "Stuart Little," seems to have made an outrageous, unblushing asiaphile mash-up, with Jet Li playing a taciturn white-clad fightin' monk, Jackie Chan as a drunken kung-fu master, Li Bing Bing playing a variation on The Bride with White Hair, Liu Yifei as the Zhang Ziyi stand-in and "Snow Angels"' Michael Angarano as the inevitable white kid who learns martial arts, saves all of ancient China and makes the film palatable ...

Forbidden Kingdom trailer and character posters
Movie Marketing Madness — ... But this trailer, while it still shows an emphasis on action special effects and still counts on the audience not wanting to sucker punch Jackie Chan, is pretty good. There’s some sort of quest that a variety of characters, including an un-serious slacker played by a Chan and an uber-discliplined monk played by Jet Li, must embark on but that’s just an excuse for the action sequences and jokes. ...