by Mike Krumboltz Reasonable audiences could assume that a movie called " The Karate Kid " would be about a kid who, well, does karate. But, in the case of the newly released feature starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan , that assumption is only half right. The truth is that Mr. Smith's character (aka "the kid") does not practice karate, but the art of kung fu. This inconvenient truth was picked up on in various reviews and blogs . Misleading? Maybe.