This trailer comes from Sahamongkolfilm, the people who brought us Chocolate, Ong Bak, and Raging Phoenix, so you know it’s going to be awesome. It’s called Power Kids, and it’s about a group of young muy thai experts who have to defend a hospital from terrorists in order to save their friend getting a heart transplant.  I want to marry that synopsis.  It also features poorly translated subtitles, my favorite.  Here are some of them:

Tony Jaa become an action star as a grown man. Jija Yanin become well known in her teens.  Now the world of martial arts…  Will engrave their names… At a very young age.   It’s time… for every heart… to unite… to fight the explosive battles with no regard for size.

So… which one of you ladies wants to fight an explosive battle with no regard for size?  (*points to crotch*) (*prematurely ejaculates*) (*cries*)
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This is the trailer for the Thai film Raging Phoenix, starring Jeeja Yanin.  You may remember Jeeja Yanin from Chocolate, in which she played the SPECIAL NEEDS GIRL, WITH A NEED, TO KICK ASS.  Raging Phoenix is a Thai romantic comedy that combines love, kickboxing, breakdancing and robot legs.  The trailer’s in Thai without subtitles, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on, and I have a hard time telling which character is which*, so I don’t know exactly how closely intertwined are the romance and the breakdance kickboxing.  But maybe it’s like the Thai What’s Love Got to Do With It.  “Girl, can’t choo see I love you?  Why you always gotta make me breakdance fight cho ass?  You know ah only wear dese robot legs cuz you hurt me.”

*Because of, um, …the editing. Yes, the fast editing, that’s why I can’t tell them apart…

[Pictures via KungFuCinema, thanks to FilmDrunkard SA for the tip]

Chocolate comes from Ong Bak director Prachya Pinkaew, and though it doesn’t have Tony Jaa, it does have two of the best title card sequences I’ve ever seen:

From the bloodline of the yakuza… and the womb of a dangerous beauty

Which reminds me of a joke:  What’s the difference between a Cadillac El Dorado and the womb of a dangerous beauty?  …Nevermind.  Anyway, I thought they’d never top that one, but then they busted out:

A special-needs girl… with a need… to kick some ass!

Best. Tagline. Ever.  It doesn’t appear to have a date set for a theatrical release in the U.S., but it looks like you can already buy the DVD. It’s called Chocolate, or alternately Fury.  Coincidentally, Chocolate Fury was my nickname in high school.

[via IGN]