The movie just sort of barrels through itself in a very odd and structurally bewildering way, and the best actors in it seem like the weakest links of the cast, so it's hard for me to even evaluate how it is as a movie. But Kato is really super excellent, tropes are subverted in surprising ways, and I laughed.

My feelings about TGH are largely based on my feelings about Bruce Lee as Kato in the TV series (who according to wiki was so popular in Hong Kong that it was marketed as The Kato Show there). Also I hear Jay Chou is Taiwanese, which makes the remake of extra interest to me. Wiki makes the remake sound okay, so perhaps I will watch it, Seth Rogen notwithstanding!

YES. It is so unfortunate. >:(

Yeah; in fact, to backtrack on myself a little, Willow is actually a better example than Faith of the female hero/antihero who gets this treatment on BtVS. (Though there is so so much sketchiness about treatments of sex&consent in the Buffyverse, period.)