 David, what does Jackie Chan, John Cena, and an Indian child mathlete turned rapper have in common? Hello, China! I want to represent Hidden Strike on Jackie Chan today. We're going to eat a lot of Bing Jiling! Andrew, these two movies are kind of controversial right now in a way that maybe you would and would not predict. The first movie we're talking about is Hidden Strike. We'll play the trailer below, Andrew. It is a almost a Rush Hour style anti-terrorist comedic action film starring Jackie Chan and John Cena. Yeah, no, a pairing that is actually very funny, but also both people have their own controversies and that's also why it took five years to come out. It was supposed to be released in 2018. The second film is called The World's Best and it's about an Indian kid who's a spelling bee champion and then finds out that his father was actually a rapper and then he goes into becoming a rapper, I guess. Yeah, but it's kind of weird because his dad looks like a rapper from 1983, from Beat Street, and I believe it is a full-length version of Kevin G's character from Mean Girls. Right, and it's weird because the Hidden Strike one is geopolitical, so it's fueled by a lot of geopolitics right between John Cena and Jackie Chan. And then the one about the Indian kid is just like, I don't know, a lot of people are sick of these Disney movies where they're trying to be like extra diverse and like maybe too woke. Well, I think it fit into a slate of like 10 new Disney shows or movies that like a lot of, I guess, like a certain crowd on the internet that is more conservative really went against. So we're going to get into the comments section. Our own takeaways. Make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, Andrew, from silly to serious. Obviously, anything regarding entertainment fundamentally should be silly, right? But it seems like so many people have serious feelings about them. Somebody said Mad Max plus Fast & Furious plus Comedy plus Kung Fu, what is this Rush Hour instead of Rush Hour? Why are they making a knockoff but with a white guy and an Asian guy? Well, I actually, it's actually not the same storyline. Alright, because it takes place in a Mad Max type world like a post-apocalyptic world where people are like searching for oil. So it is definitely some of that. But overall, I would say the movie looks good in a cheesy way. Right, like some of the scenes in the trailers, if you look at it through a cheesy lens, they're good cheesy scenes, right? Yeah, I mean, if the graphics were better, what it wouldn't have been on par with some Fast & Furious type level stuff. Somebody said, I almost forgot about this commie apologist, John Cena. And somebody said, yeah, of course, they both love commies, the perfect duo. And somebody said, let me guess, the plot of the movie is John Cena and Jackie Chan teaming up to take over Taiwan. A lot of people are like, oh man, this looks like a bad parody movie. Jackie Chan looked a lot younger back in 2018. The CGI for this looks very outdated. It looks like they shot it all on a green screen. Somebody said this looks like one of those movies designed to debut in the US and sort of flop but just recoup in the China market. Yeah, it's interesting. It does kind of look more like a Chinese made movie. So I do think it's a co-production, maybe produced by XY Films, which might be a Chinese company. I don't know. No, I believe it is a co-production. Somebody said, so many, so much politics went into this. If you really understood about it, John Cena called Taiwan a country during this. This probably kicked it back another two years. COVID kicked it back three years for the total of five year delay. Does that discredit the movie? Does that make it bad? Just because it's like five years late? I mean, I just think the discussions are interesting, but I'd like to see it come out. And to be honest, at least I'm one of those people where I'm just more detached from it. I'm just going to watch it, just to see if it's good and just to see a white guy who's like from the country, who's a rapper, which is John Cena, pair with Jackie Chan. Immediately, it sounds like there could be some funny scenes. Dave, do you think there's a scene where they speak Chinese with each other? Honestly, I do think so. And do you think there's a scene, Andrew, where John Cena probably does the lightning strike? Oh, because you know how you in WWF, he kind of came up with that new like Shang-Chi inspired like, ah, Shang-Din, Shang-Duo. You know what I would love if they tied in some of John Cena's viral moments in it? Like at one point, he's like, yeah, I do love chili oil. You know, like if he's like, oh, yeah, I need some Lao Ga Ma to eat these army rations in this post-apocalyptic world. Moving on, Andrew, to World's Best. This is a really interesting plot for a movie. It's essentially like Kevin G's character from Mean Girls, but they turned it into like two hours, right? Yeah, and the biggest comment was like, hey, listen, I'm a fan of diversity, and that's the only way I've ever been allowed into anything, but this thing looks very, very cheesy. So a lot of people are like, I love the effort. I like how they're tying in new characters and kind of a new storyline, something that people haven't really seen before, you know? Right, because it's an Indian athlete whose father died. He doesn't know a lot about his father. I guess his mom's like hiding the secret from him that his dad was actually like a rapper. And then his dad comes back from the dead as a ghost to teach him how to be cool at school. Because as we know in America, Andrew, it's sort of an anti-nerd country, even though you need nerds to like run all the companies. Yeah, it's kind of funny that any Asian kid that becomes cool at school needs some type of mystical, mythical, like supernatural message or power. Right, whether it's your dead rapper, ghost dad come back or that you are a descendant of the Monkey King, obviously in Disney plus his ABC. Right, exactly. Somebody said, of course, Andrew, some more harsh comments, and we know about the culture wars that are going on in America right now. We need to boycott Disney with the same passion that we did to Bud Light. And then, of course, other people fired back and was like, you guys can't fight progress forever. All you old racist boomers are passing on. Well, I guess a lot of people, I mean, in the internet comments at least, which I do not think the likes or comments on a YouTube trailer are fully reflective of who will watch it because I think a lot of the people commenting are not even Disney plus subscribers, right? So I do think that, so in a way it doesn't matter, but it does give you kind of an idea of how some people feel. And I think a lot of people are just mad because they're like, it seems like Disney's trying to force diversity with this one, where they kind of made like a cheesy movie. And I don't really know who it's for. Is it for kids or for adults? Is it for Indian-Americans? I mean, I would say this, I really like the premise of it. But after watching the trailer, I was like, yo, this is 100X cheesier than Hamilton. The guy who made Hamilton produced it. I already thought Hamilton was cheesy. A lot of people were like, dude, Disney needs to realize there's a difference between being progressive and being cringe. What do you think about that? I mean, like, is Disney, I think Disney's right for pushing diversity and more progressiveness, but the art form and the execution of the art does still matter too, right? For sure. And I guess just because it is cringe to us, it doesn't mean that it's gonna do bad. But also if it's very, very cringe right now, I do think that's a sign that there's a chance it could do really bad. Yeah. I mean, Chan Can Dunk, unfortunately, I believe it had 14,000 downvotes versus 2,000 upvotes. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think this one's nearly gonna be as poorly received as Chan Can Dunk's trailer. But what do you think right now? Do you think it's because the love for these projects does not transcend the anti, the hate? Well, I think what Disney is doing is that they are making a lot of new content. They have to because eventually you're gonna run out of your legacy content, right? All your Marvel stuff, the comic stuff, all the old Disney remakes. Like in this content game where Disney's trying to crank stuff out almost like a YouTube channel or Netflix. Right, because this is the nature of the new premium streaming services, right? Right. Not everything is gonna be good. You don't build up releases where somebody watches one movie a month, right? And then they build it up and they're like, alright, that's the one movie I'm gonna watch in theaters this month. That's the one movie I'm taking my kids to. It's like now people have to watch like eight to 10 movies a month. But what if they brought back remakes, and I'm just asking here, obviously, you know, I could see both sides of it more like, I guess, white driven shows and put more diverse characters mixed in there, such as clouds, star girls. I don't even know what they are. These are just what the internet comments. I'm assuming from white people we're bringing up. Can you satisfy both groups without pissing off, you know, some select portion of white people while increasing diversity? Like in a more smoother fusion way? For sure. I think there can be white male protagonist still. Like why not? Make his best friend in Asia. You can add diversity around them. I don't, you know, like we always say, us being Asian growing up in America, I'm used to seeing white people at the front of movies. So it doesn't, I love seeing ourselves, but it doesn't bother me to see a good movie where a white person is a hero. That doesn't bother me if it's good. By the way guys, obviously I'm not advocating that we dial the clock back to 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago where like everything is just white dominated and minorities are just like these bit roles. I'm just saying it'd be nice if we could have the progress without everybody fighting each other. Yeah, and it just sounds like because you just have to make so much content, the content's not always good, but it's like diverse, so which is good, but then the content's bad, which is not good. So now it's this, yeah. Why do you think this is kind of an aside Andrew that white people like that era of like run DMC so much from like 1988 or like 1984? Like there's no way this guy who's 12 years old in 2023 has a dad that was like from the beach street like wild style days. Yeah. Like your dad would be like 65 years old. That would be as old as like Africa Bombada. It's funny because in the trailer they show Dougie Fresh and Dougie Fresh is like the oldest school but very famous beat boxer but like I would assume anybody below the age of 35 does not know him. Right. It was kind of like a yo, it's Kevin G, 14 and 3 years 17. Check it. And it's like whoa, that type of hip hop was done in like 1987. Because you got Dougie Fresh, which is confusing because I'm like wait, so is this movie for old people, the parents and the kids, I guess. Like they want the 45 year old parents with the 10 year old kid to watch it. But as me, as a 30 some year old, I'm lost in the middle. I honestly think that it's the only era of hip hop that like white people think was safe because it was more like dancing and like b-boying on like cardboard. Because technically the Indian rapper dad should be dressed like dip set if he was like a rapper from like 05. I thought it could have been really funny if the dad did have an Indian accent and was a rapper in India and then almost got signed to the major record label in America but something happened and then he died so he never got to make his American career debut. Oh to break open the market because it wasn't diverse, right? Yeah. So you could have still had an Indian rapper dad with an accent, with an Indian accent and that would have like to be honest, made it more interesting. Yeah. Honestly, I thought for sure he was going to be Punjabi and maybe there was going to be a guest cameo from Nav. Oh, or Punjabi MC. Ooh. Alright guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think about these two movies. Is this just over police size? Is this just the internet at play? Or is Disney really making some eff-ups right now? Yeah, I think that they have the right intention but the execution to honestly is lacking. Alright everybody, please hit that like button check out other episodes of the Hop Hop Boys. Until next time, we out. Peace.