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Yong Duk JhunCast:
Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, Michael Clarke Duncan (more)VOD (4)
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Prepare for awesomeness with DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda. Jack Black is perfect as the voice of Po, a noodle-slurping dreamer who must embrace his true self - fuzzy flaws and all - in order to become the Dragon Warrior. With groundbreaking animation, an all-star cast and high-kicking humour, the Academy Award-nominated Kung Fu Panda is delightful entertainment for the whole family! (Dreamworks Animation UK)
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They may not be as good as Pixar, but you can’t say that the guys at DreamWorks aren’t trying. Kung Fu Panda is a great martial arts movie, a tribute to older Chinese movies (a great scene with the last dumpling, by the way ;-), and also a great cartoon about a big, fat, panda with the snappiest of lines. And I was overjoyed whenever Mr. Turtle (Master Oogway) made an appearance. He had greater charisma than anybody I know.
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But yeah, after the disappointment of Ratatouille, I was quite pleased with Kung Fu Panda. In the beginning it seems like a perfectly overblown genre homage, with the best jokes coming out of that ("No, this scroll cannot see eyes other than yours... give it here", or blowing out candles), only later it's replaced by humor like "panda is unable to walk up the long stairs for the seventh time" and constant infantile jokes when the main character falls somewhere or does some other inanity. Fortunately there is a lot of good action (except the last wtf fight) and the dumpling fight in particular was good, so as an animated one-shot I enjoyed it.
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An animated film that surprised and entertained me beyond my expectations. Although it is just one among many similar films of this kind, Kung Fu Panda still has something to offer. The story is quite simple with not particularly fast-paced animation, but with great choreography of fight scenes. In short, an American animated film that made me laugh despite its shortcomings.
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This is just a film that clicked with me. While I initially wondered why I liked it back then, upon revisiting it, I realized my enjoyment was justified. It's a lovely animated tribute to kung fu films, made excellent by its 3D execution, allowing the creators to play and explore creatively. The animals as kung fu heroes come to life brilliantly, and the story is pleasantly B-movie-esque, clichéd, and unoriginal.
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You too can do what a toucan can. And when I see a panda, I jump with joy and start laughing, kinda. A panda with a gut like a hippo and the power of kung-fu. While I was expecting a regular DreamWorks ado. In other words, one pop-culture reference haphazardly after another, a worn-out edit sequence to the tune of a pop hit and loads of parodical joking around that we’ve seen (at least) a hundred times before. For all the Chinese saints, imagine this: somebody had the amazing idea of not doing a parody on kung-fu movies, but instead a completely classic, while lightweight and kid-friendly, kung-fu picture with everything that this brings. The good and the bad things. Although this Panda odyssey isn’t one of the peak of kung-fu genre, it is the best animated representative of the genre that I know (on the other hand, I don’t know too many of them). And who would have guessed that a family animated movie would treat me to the best and most ingenious action sequences this year. I just hope that Master Shifu and his followers don’t spoil it with a part two, which probably won’t take long to appear. I almost want to add the word “unfortunately".
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