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Inspector Hammer! 
They took an honest and original scene and purposefully twisted it all around until now it means nothing and serves no other purpose except to get a laugh.
To me that is this film in a nutshell.
They showcased that at least three times in the trailer:
First, when Daniel got to the apartments in Reseda, he found out they weren't going to live in the ocean paradise suggested by the apartment complex's name. Here, the kid knows he's going to China and they still have him comment about Beverly Hills. It was a natural thing in the original, but here it's just a conscious callback.
Second, the training in Karate Kid was a nice little surprise for the audience and Daniel. Neither we nor he knew he was getting his lessons through his labor. Here, instead of being smart enough to know we now know, they went for it anyway with an extremely contrived "jacket on" lesson. A few years after the Karate Kid, there was a similar movie where Billy Blanks was a janitor training a kid to stand up for himself, and he had the kid swabbing out some toilets. The kid was disgusted and annoyed, but then he said, "Oh, I get it. This is like wax on, wax off! This is my karate lesson!" Blanks says, "No, it's called cleaning the toilet so I can finish my other work to make time for your lesson!" Those filmmakers were aware enough to put a new spin on it.
Third, the fly thing. It doesn't even make sense. Why does he need to pull the fly off of the flyswatter, other than to trick us into thinking he was doing the Miyagi thing?
Other than that, the main problem is that the kid is far too young and the setting is far too alien. Daniel was about to graduate high school, and had a high schooler's problems. I don't care about what some eight-year-old is having to go through.
