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By Stephen Farber

What do you get when you mix The Wizard of Oz, The Karate Kid, Rush Hour and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? You get a hodgepodge titled The Forbidden Kingdom, which will please its core audience but won't enthrall anyone over the age of 16. (Even that might be stretching the point.)

Young males adore martial arts movies with plenty of well-choreographed mayhem... Read the full review and more at hollywoodreporter.com.

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