本片根据好莱坞1984年的同名电影翻拍而成。12岁的德瑞·帕克（贾登·史密斯 Jaden Smith 饰）随母亲（塔拉吉·P·汉森 Taraji P. Henson 饰）由底特律搬家至中国北京，认识了同校拉小提琴的中国女孩美莹（韩雯雯 饰）。德瑞与美莹的交往引起了学校以程（王振威 饰）为首的小团体的不满，在一次打斗中，处于劣势的德瑞被公寓管理员老韩（成龙 饰）所救，却得罪了程的武术老师李师傅（于荣光 饰）。老韩与李师傅约定，由徒弟们在比武大会上一较高下。从此，德瑞师承老韩开始学习中国功夫，从拳脚练习到个性修炼，一点点领会武术及人生的真谛，同时也与老韩建立了深厚的友谊。但只有短期训练的德瑞究竟能否在残酷的比武大赛上战胜程，取得最终胜利呢？After his mother (Henson) accepts a job in China, teenager dre park (smith) is forced to move to the new country. He meets some friends, but loses all of them except for mei ying (Han), his new girlfriend, after getting attacked by a bully (wang). After almost being killed, he is rescued by therapist mr. Han (chan), who does much more than therapy. When dre has to fight his bully, Cheng, Han teaches him Kung fu, and now dre has to take bad matters into his own hands