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Kung Fu Panda (2008)

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87

Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 146 | Rotten: 21

Kung Fu Panda has a familiar message, but the pleasing mix of humor, swift martial arts action, and colorful animation makes for winning Summer entertainment.

76

Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 9

Kung Fu Panda has a familiar message, but the pleasing mix of humor, swift martial arts action, and colorful animation makes for winning Summer entertainment.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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A clumsy panda bear becomes an unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous enemy spreads chaos throughout the countryside in this animated martial arts adventure featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jackie Chan. On the surface, Po (voice of Black) may look like just another portly panda bear, but beneath his fur he bears the mark of the chosen one. By day, Po works faithfully in his family's noodle shop, but by night he dreams of becoming a true master of the

Nov 9, 2008

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All Critics (167) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (146) | Rotten (21) | DVD (26)

Manages to entertain and dazzle, and parents won't beat themselves up for sitting through it, although what it teaches could fit on a fortune cookie.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black.

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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The aphorisms creak. The plot's an open book. But all of those clichés are part of the joke in this ebullient ursine coming-of-age tale about a humble panda destined for greatness.

July 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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The action tends to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos.

June 10, 2008 Full Review Source: CNN.com
CNN.com
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The film settles into a succession of ritual spoofs of the kung fu genre, and peddles the sort of cloying preachments about self-esteem and human potential -- panda potential -- that little kids hear all the time on TV.

June 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comments (9)
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Everything that happens in this dull tale of Po, a paunchy panda who becomes a zealous kung fu fighter, is telegraphed well in advance.

June 6, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comments (11)
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An energetic and surprisingly colorful family adventure tale that trumps formula through sheer force of personality.

May 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

Kung Fu Panda is a colourful, extremely enjoyable if workmanlike animated romp.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy
Digital Spy

The thin script (light on length and surprise, heavy on tike-pleasing jokes and action) gives the ancillary anthropomorphized animals so little to say, you'll hardly recognize Angelina Jolie's Tigress or even Jackie Chan's Monkey.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix
Boston Phoenix

A vast improvement over such previous DreamWorks dreck as Shark Tale and the Shrek flicks

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

Kung Fu Panda puts most other recent action movies to shame with its astonishingly beautiful, fluid, fast, clean use of movement and space.

November 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

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November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen It!
Screen It!

A witty, visually interesting and sweet comedy that works in pretty much all departments.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

...relies on the sounds of its voice cast and the brilliance of its CGI animation to help it succeed.

November 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

It is as if the spirit of recent Zhang Yimou spectaculars have informed this warm and very likable Hollywood fare.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen International
Screen International

This Panda delivers a cuddle more than a thump.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

It's still a bit patchy in terms of its pace, and it's awfully violent for a PG movie, but it also features the best fight sequences the animated world, or any other world, has ever seen.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com
Bullz-Eye.com

Formulaic, but entertaining and often dazzling.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Boston Herald
Boston Herald

One fine movie.

October 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com
Hollywood.com

A fun movie that manages to entertain pretty much the whole way through.

September 5, 2008 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Despite the traditional animation platitudes, the film is entertaining and well voiced.

August 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Cinema Sight

Enjoyable, superbly animated and frequently funny adventure with great voice work, strong characters and some excellent fight scenes.

July 18, 2008 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

Just like many martial arts movie epics of old, Kung Fu Panda is filmed in widescreen CinemaScope: a perfect, vast canvas for an epic set in old China.

July 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Teletext
Teletext

Audience Reviews for Kung Fu Panda

A fun movie that me and my daughter both enjoyed. Skadoosh!!
June 6, 2008
jmanard52

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Funny and quite stylish, but entirely insubstantial, which is ok.
March 26, 2013
Louis Rogers

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    1. Po: Skadoosh
    – Submitted by Carlo R (7 days ago)
    1. Po: No, master! Don't die!
    2. Master Shifu: *closes eyes*
    3. Po: NO!
    4. Master Shifu: I'm not dying you idiot! I'm relaxing!
    – Submitted by Mike R (5 months ago)
    1. Po: Oooooh... My tenders!
    – Submitted by Omar K (5 months ago)
    1. Mr. Ping: Once I had a dream that I ran away to make tofu.
    2. Po: Then why didn't you!
    3. Mr. Ping: Because it was a stupid dream.
    – Submitted by Matthew R (6 months ago)
    1. Po: Wow, all of you look bigger than the action figure! Accept for you Mantis.
    – Submitted by Matthew R (6 months ago)
    1. Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
    – Submitted by Adam H (6 months ago)

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