"Kung Fu Panda" Mini-Review


The Professor gives it an A+.

Two A+ Kung Fu movies in a row? Yes, if anything "Kung Fu Panda" is better than "Forbidden Kingdom." I read the L.A. Times reviewer who panned "Panda" and wonder if we even saw the same movie!

How did she miss the subtlety of the Po's (the panda) weaknesses becoming his strengths? How did she miss the respect that the Furious Five grudgingly began to pay to him as the movie progressed? How did she miss the fact that his irrational and ingenious persistence "accidentally" put him in the position to be chosen as the unlikely Dragon Warrior?

The dialogue even spelled it out, and still the Times reviewer missed it: "I'm not a big, fat panda. I'm THE Big, Fat Panda!"

The Big, Fat Panda indeed. Kudos to Dreamworks, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, and Jackie Chan. Well done.


Posted: Sun - June 15, 2008 at 11:40 PM   | | | | |


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