Kung-Fu Panda

"Kung-Fu Panda(2008)" is another comical cartoon animation creation of Dreamworks Entertainment. I chose this movie because, despite it being a cartoon it can preach the tastes of the older audiences too. I found it fairly entertaining. Not the best cartoon animated film that came out, but still, yea, it was quite something.



In a film which Jack Black starts, it's destined for awesomeness (well not really, I hate this guy but he's kind of funny). Po(Jack Black), a clumsy fat panda has the dream to become the world's greatest Kung-Fu fighter along with the furious five: Mantis(Seth Rogen), Tigress(Angelina Jolie), Crane(David Cross), Snake(Lucy Liu) and Monkey(Jackie Chan), the nation's Kung-Fu Heroes. Master Oogway (Randall Dug Kim), the head of the Buddhist Kung-Fu monastery prophesies the return of the evil snow leopard warrior Tai Lung(Ian McShane) who was trained by Master Shifu(Dustin Hoffman) to become the greatest warrior to exist, but his own love and blindness for his apprentice he is unable to stop him from destroying their home, Valley of Peace and attaining the ultimate Dragon Scroll which would lead him to ultimate knowledge. In order to prevent the forthcoming destruction of the Valley of Peace Master Oogway organizes a festival to search for the warrior to counter Tai Lung. The thing is, despite everyone's disbelief, Master Oogway chooses Po to be the one. Po's dull ramen-serving life is about to change despite his discouraging appearance, he will discover his true power lies on nothing else than his own weakness.(His appearance)



Tai Lung, a pissed off kitty.

Another fairy-tale with a lesson of life in it(supposedly) which combines for the first time in the history actual fighting choreography, which was something refreshing in this kind of movies and offered plenty of action.
The bad thing about it, it was very predictable. Veeery predictable. I mean, come on, you know that in the end he's going to rise up no matter what... In every cartoon. But, hey you can't expect a kid's cartoon to be realistic, you gotta give those kids some optimistic(Yet unrealistic) messages. It wasn't as funny as Shrek, but it definitely had its moments.




Directed by Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Produced by Melissa Cobb
Written by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross,Ian McShane,Jackie Chan
Music by: Hans Zimmer,John Powell
Cinematography: Yong Duk Jhun
Distributed by: DreamWorks Animation, Paramount Pictures