Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006) on Netflix
TV-PG20061h 31mActionAdventureFamilyFantasyRomanceSci-Fi
Wendy Wu wants the homecoming crown. A young monk named Shen arrives to tell her she is the reincarnation of a warrior, the only one who can stop an ancient evil.
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Wendy Wu is a popular Chinese-American teenager in Fair Springs, California, whose mind is fixed on one prize: the homecoming crown. Shen, a young Buddhist monk, arrives with a claim that she is the reincarnation of a great female warrior and the only person who can stop an evil spirit, Yan-Lo, from destroying the world. He begs her to wear an amulet that will protect her until he can train her in martial arts. Wendy's grandmother believes him, since her mother was the Yin Warrior before her and beat Yan-Lo in China ninety years earlier, but the rest of the family has lost touch with its Chinese heritage. Wendy would rather shop with her friends Tory and Lisa than fight evil, and Yan-Lo sets out to destroy her before her training is complete.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006)
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- Brenda Song trained more than two weeks at 16 hours a day and did most of her own stunts in the film, guided by Koichi Sakamoto, executive producer of the Power Rangers franchise.
- Brenda Song was inspired to endure the stunt training by the way her mother dealt with breast cancer in 2005.
- Much of Wendy Wu was shot in Auckland, New Zealand, to accommodate action unit director Koichi Sakamoto, who choreographed Power Rangers there, and Long Bay College drama students were used as extras in the school scenes.
- Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior is the only Disney Channel Original Movie ever aired on ABC Family, where it ran on June 20, 2006, as part of the Jetix block.
- The evil spirit Yan Lo takes his name from Yamarāja, the lord of death in Buddhist and Hindu philosophy; "Yan Lo" is a shortened Chinese transliteration of that name.
- Brenda Song commuted during film breaks to shoot the second season of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody while making Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior.
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