Exclusive Character Poster And Hysterical New TAI CHI ZERO Trailer Demand Your Attention!

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor

Explosions! Pretty ladies! Kissing! And, of course, kung fu! WellGo USA and Variance Films have released a hysterical new trailer for Stephen Fung's Tai Chi Zero in the leadup to its appearance at Fantastic Fest. Oh, and that poster featuring Shu Qi as The Mother? That's new, too.

TAI CHI ZERO tells the story of Yang Luchan, a young genius who, tired of being picked on, travels to Chen Village to learn the art of Tai Chi. Luchan finds out the hard way that it is forbidden for a villager to teach an outsider when the villagers, from strong men to old women to little children, repeatedly challenge him to a series of fights, all of which he loses quite badly. But when a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines shows up, the villagers realize that in order to save their home, they must trust this strange outsider with the knowledge of Tai Chi.

Take a look at the new trailer below!

Around the Internet:

Luis Canau

This trailer gave me an headache. Maybe it's "faithful" to the film... I mean, maybe the film is annoying and unfunny for trying too much to be funny. It sounded like a bad American trailer for an Asian film, but at least they didn't hid the fact they actually speak 'foreign'. I had to look for a Chinese version, but I'm not sure if it gets much better. Maybe without subtitles... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Kurt

This movie (and this rather obnoxious trailer) remind me why Stephen Chow is good at what he does, and why all the folks involved here need to go back to the drawing board. When I watch a kung-fu (comedy or not) I don't really want VH1 pop-up video version. EWWWWW.

Todd Brown

Fixed!

Todd Brown

Sorry about the trailer embed ... Machinima is proving grumpy as far as giving a proper embed code. Worked fine when it was the featured video on their channel but now won't let me update ...

Mike

Jesus, the narrator in that trailer was terrible.

Well Go Girl

The trailer is here: http://youtu.be/6_9KK3U1LhY

all chinese people

So where's the new damn trailer?

scorpions from germany

wheres the trailer?

Ivan

So where's the mentioned above new Tai Chi Zero trailer? Or this is just PR of another MOH stuff?

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