Ten years ago, I would've been excited as hell at the prospect of a Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie. Alas, in the intervening decade these two stars have lost their luster — Jet's kept some of his dignity, but Jackie's become mostly a children's entertainer, and both have made some pretty subpar American vehicles. So I was kind of hoping that the Forbidden Kingdom trailer might rekindle some of that old glee, but alas, it didn't happen. For one thing, Chan and Li are the top-liners, but it looks like they're mostly in it to train a young kid, and an American no less, in the ways of kung fu. Laaaaaaaaaaame! Come on, we want to see these guys fight each other. Yeah, I know that Chan is way past his prime, and even in Chan's heyday Jet would've mopped the floor with him, but it would've been fun all the same, especially since Jackie's always funniest when he's clearly overmatched. Perhaps the trailer is misleading, but I really don't have much hope for the potential awesomeness of this. After all, how awesome could a martial-arts epic be when it's directed by the same guy who made The Haunted Mansion?