Let’s call the standing — or flat on its back — ten count on the “Karate Kid” movies after “Karate Kid: Legends.”

Sentimental father figure martial arts revenge dramas frosted with the honor and code of the Asian fighting arts — honors and codes violated by villains but upheld by our heroes — these pictures ran out of ideas decades ago, not that a TV “Cobra Kai” revival was hampered by that.

“Legends” unites later “Karate Kid” sensei/teacher Jackie Chan with the “original” kid, Ralph Macchio, which will touch those who still appreciate the simplicity and underdog-vs-bullies ethos of 1984’s “The Karate Kid.”

Chan and co-star Ben Wang did the fight choreography, and director Jonathan Entwistle, cinematographer Justin Brown and editors Dana E. Glauberman and Colby Parker Jr. ensure that the martial arts moves are a spectacular blur of fists,” “one inch punch” blows and flying, spinning “dragon kicks.”

But the story is The Same as it Ever Was. There are thuggish bullies who misuse martial arts. And the assorted “kids” and their teacher have to set them straight about what the “art” and discipline are really about.

Ben Wang plays Li Fong, a Beijing boy with the most American accent in Mr. Han’s martial arts academy. His mother (Ming-Na Wen of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”) disapproves of the martial arts thing. She’s already “lost one son” to it, she complains to Han (Jackie Chan).

Luckily for Dr. Mom she’s landed a gig in New York. The kid will have to “promise” to give up training and fighting as they move there and he tries to fit in. The accent will be no problem, and no screenplay invention can explain away the boy’s California-fluency.

Li ducks into a pizza joint, gets the “go to Jersey” insult from the owner (Joshua Jackson, formerly of “Dawson’s Creek,” recently in TV’s “Fatal Attraction” series) over his Philistine’s “stuffed crust” request and an aggressively perky vibe from the owner’s daughter (Sadie Stanley), and finds his first New York friends.

Naturally, pizza cook Victor is in hock with a local dojo owner (Tim Rozon). Naturally, Victor used to be a boxer, so he needs “one more fight, maybe two” to get out of debt. Even though he’s pretty damned close to getting that AARP card in the mail, that’s what we’re meant to buy into.

And of course perky daughter Mia used to have a thing with that dojo’s most savage, unscrupulous sucker-punching fighter Conor (Aramis Knight).

Li will “turn you from a stone into a stream,” teaching Victor to “flow” in his fighting, countering the other boxer’s efforts with deflection and popping him with the occasional deadly “one inch punch.” And the 125 pound Li will have to come up with some new tricks if he himself has to fight over Mia.

Li may more than hold his own with groups of thugs who try to muscle the pizza shop owner, punching through the flashbacks where he remembers how his martial artist older brother died in front of him. But if he’s going to train this boxer and get REAL revenge by beating the punk Conor in The Five Boroughs MMA tourney, he’s going to need teachers.

Mr. Han flies in. Then he flies off to find Mister Miyagi’s best pupil, Daniel-san (Macchio). They teach Li a new trick or two in just a couple of days.

Director Entwistle (Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World” was his) keeps the cliches coming and the narrative — such as it is — moving. But there aren’t enough fights in the early going to sustain interest. And the later ones are pretty much pre-determined.

This “Kid” is somewhat better than the one Chan made with Will Smith’s kid several years back, but “Cobra Kai” fans may find the generic plot weighs down the punches too much to add anything new to the saga.

Rating: PG-13, violence, some of it bloody

Cast: Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, Ming-Na Wen, Sadie Stanley, Aramis Knight, Joshua Jackson, Tim Rozon and Ralph Macchio

Credits: Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, scripted by Rob Lieber, based on characeters created by Robert Mark Kamen.

Running time: 1:34