Jackie Chan and Jet Li have fulfilled their long-awaited on screen collaboration and “The Forbidden Kingdom” is pretty satisfying both of their fans, which could be seen from the result of the U.S domestic box office alone that has banked $52 million. With the rating that set on PG-13, their film also proved as a very family friendly movie compared to its lot of action-intense martial arts scenes. As everyone known, with only Jet Li and Jackie Chan have been paired for the first ever on one screen had made this film as a must see for everyone, but the director Rob Minkoff not just simply throw both of them together in this full martial arts film. He and the screenwriter John Fusco, also the fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping from Crouching Tiger/Matrix trilogy, had crafted a magical moments in this film by using both of these Kung Fu Kings legendary reputations to telling a very entertaining, crowd-pleasing, action-fantasy fairy tale. Now, the film that a remade-up version to Chinese most legendaries folklore “Journey to the West” is accessible for your home cinema collection. “The Forbidden Kingdom” will release in two-disc special edition + digital copy DVD
on September 9, 2008.
In the film, an immortal known as the Monkey King (Jet Li), is turned to stone by the malicious Jade Warlord (Collin Chou). Without his magic staff by itself, the Monkey King is destined to remain forever as the prisoner. A prophecy states that every 500 years someone is sent on a quest to return the prized pole and the story taking us back to our time where we were introduce to Jason (Michael Angarano), a friendless high school boy who really admired kung fu movies. He finds comfort hanging out in a Chinatown store browsing for forgotten martial arts films and chatting with its elderly, the shop owner (Jackie Chan). At the back of the old store, Jason finds an antique bowstaff which, when trouble starts, magically propels him back through time to an ancient, forgotten China where characters of myth and legend walk the Earth. Lost and out of his element, Jason meets two ancient fighting masters, a drunken Kung Fu master named Lu Yan (Jackie again) and a pious monk named Lan Cai He (Li again). Both of them, also with the help of the taciturn Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) who has a personal vendetta of her own, will take the white boy under their wing and guide him down a path which will not only returning the magic staff to its true owner and defeats the evil warlord, but also send him home. Needless to say, the Jade Warlord doesn't want Jason to deliver the staff, so he sends out his soldiers and three highly skilled fighters led by the wicked witch Ni Chang (Li Bingbing) to intercept it and make life miserable for everyone in the vicinity.
•Format: 2-Disc Keep Case, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Special Edition, Widescreen Anamorphic, NTSC, Audio Track 2: Commentary by Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
•Language: English
•Subtitles: English, Spanish
•Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
•Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
•Number of discs: 1
•Rating: PG-13
•Studio: Lions Gate
•DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008 (Save your Copy!)
•Run Time: 104 minutes
on September 9, 2008.In the film, an immortal known as the Monkey King (Jet Li), is turned to stone by the malicious Jade Warlord (Collin Chou). Without his magic staff by itself, the Monkey King is destined to remain forever as the prisoner. A prophecy states that every 500 years someone is sent on a quest to return the prized pole and the story taking us back to our time where we were introduce to Jason (Michael Angarano), a friendless high school boy who really admired kung fu movies. He finds comfort hanging out in a Chinatown store browsing for forgotten martial arts films and chatting with its elderly, the shop owner (Jackie Chan). At the back of the old store, Jason finds an antique bowstaff which, when trouble starts, magically propels him back through time to an ancient, forgotten China where characters of myth and legend walk the Earth. Lost and out of his element, Jason meets two ancient fighting masters, a drunken Kung Fu master named Lu Yan (Jackie again) and a pious monk named Lan Cai He (Li again). Both of them, also with the help of the taciturn Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) who has a personal vendetta of her own, will take the white boy under their wing and guide him down a path which will not only returning the magic staff to its true owner and defeats the evil warlord, but also send him home. Needless to say, the Jade Warlord doesn't want Jason to deliver the staff, so he sends out his soldiers and three highly skilled fighters led by the wicked witch Ni Chang (Li Bingbing) to intercept it and make life miserable for everyone in the vicinity.
•Format: 2-Disc Keep Case, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Special Edition, Widescreen Anamorphic, NTSC, Audio Track 2: Commentary by Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
•Language: English
•Subtitles: English, Spanish
•Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
•Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
•Number of discs: 1
•Rating: PG-13
•Studio: Lions Gate
•DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008 (Save your Copy!)
•Run Time: 104 minutes
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