It didn’t occur to Ben Wang right away that in taking on “Karate Kid: Legends,” he’d be the franchise’s first Asian American “Kid.”

Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan join forces in the new "Karate Kid" movie cast but it's young Ben Wang who truly gives "Legends" some kick.

Taking an amusingly formulaic “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, Karate Kid: Legends echoes the plot of both the 1984 original and the 2010 Karate Kid films with its familiar underdog story of a kid whose single mother moves him to a new city where he’s bullied by a martial arts expert before entering a tournament to prove himself by facing that very same bully.