Due to its worldwide box office success, The Forbidden Kingdom is getting a sequel. This chop-suey of Chinese fable will reunite the two big Chinese martial arts stars, Jet Li and Jackie Chan, and will likely feature a romance between Jet Li and Li Bingbing‘s characters, according to the Beijing Times report. Wait, the romancing of the Monkey God and the Grey Haired Lady
aka Moonlight Witch? Now that’s a first. A better storyline would be to
have Jet Li play a mute guy. This is certainly fitting since he uttered
no more than 10 sentences in the first movie, and most were
incomprehensible. 

Speaking of Jet Li, didn’t he announce to the press that he would not do any more martial arts flicks after Fearless? Not only does he have this planned sequel, he also has The Mummy: Tomb of The Emperor Dragon coming out this summer. I guess it’s hard to walk away from the lucrative Hollywood deals.

Don’t get me wrong, the fight sequence in The Forbidden Kingdom
was definitely entertaining, but the plot was a different story. The
story was crap not to mention the corny fortune cookie-ish dialogue
(all the time I was waiting for one of the characters to say,
“Confucius says, man who goes to bed with itchy…”). But when you have
guys in the audience clap and cheer that this was one of the best
movies they had ever seen, you know a sequel is inevitable.