Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Rating: 80%
My review for Kung Fu Panda...that's it.

Plot: Po is a panda who dreams of being a powerful kung fu master despite working in his goose father's noodle restaurant. One day, kung fu Master Oogway has a vision that the evil kung fu warrior Tai Lung will return and that the time is soon to discover who shall become the Dragon Warrior and defeat Tai Lung. So Oogway's old student, Master Shifu, hold a tournament for his students, The Furious Five, to discover who will become the Dragon Warrior. Po tries to get inside the tournament to watch the Furious Five, but in the process, the accidentally ends up in the area and Oogway chooses him as the Dragon Warrior. So despite Po's inability to learn kung fu, Shifu has to train him to become the Dragon Warrior and defeat Tai Lung.

This movie was very cute and extremely well made visually. The main problem with this film is that the structure of the story, has a fair share of cliches. The whole process of what happens to Po and some very specific parts of the dialogue that was used for some of that process was very familiar from other films and even if it isn't, it feels very easy to predict. And another things that some people have an issue with this film is that some people feel that some of the stars that do the voice acting for the supporting characters are underused like Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan. But luckily, the film pulls off some very well delivered comedy that helps make some of the predictable parts more bearable and the film altogether more fun to watch. But the animation is probably the most impressive part of the movie. I think that there's always a moment when I'm watching this film when I try to think how much of a challenge this film must've been for the animators, particularly when it comes to all of the kung fu movements for the characters. Because while some of the kung fu stuff is relatively similar to some things we're very well familiar with from other kung fu or kung fu related movies like The Matrix trilogy, Kill Bill, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this film takes advantage of the freedom they can use with being an animated film instead of live action and give us bigger and better action that you can very easily enjoy.

And that's my review for Kung Fu Panda. It has some sense of cheesiness and predictability with the structure of the story of Po and the set of cliches they give us with some of the dialogue, but it makes up for it with well delivered comedy and excellent animation that gives us very enjoyable action making Kung Fu Panda an altogether fun film to enjoy.