Kung Fu Panda (2008)
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.
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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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
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Jack Black
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Dustin Hoffman
Master Shifu -
Angelina Jolie
Tigress -
Ian McShane
Tai Lung -
Seth Rogen
Mantis -
Lucy Liu
Viper -
David Cross
Crane -
Randall Duk Kim
Oogway -
James Hong
Mr. Ping -
Dan Fogler
Zeng -
Michael Clarke Duncan
Commander Vachir -
Jackie Chan
Monkey
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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.
Top CriticHands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black.
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.
The action tends to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos.
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.
Everything that happens in this dull tale of Po, a paunchy panda who becomes a zealous kung fu fighter, is telegraphed well in advance.
An energetic and surprisingly colorful family adventure tale that trumps formula through sheer force of personality.
Kung Fu Panda is a colourful, extremely enjoyable if workmanlike animated romp.
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.
A vast improvement over such previous DreamWorks dreck as Shark Tale and the Shrek flicks
Kung Fu Panda puts most other recent action movies to shame with its astonishingly beautiful, fluid, fast, clean use of movement and space.
Parental Content Review
A witty, visually interesting and sweet comedy that works in pretty much all departments.
...relies on the sounds of its voice cast and the brilliance of its CGI animation to help it succeed.
It is as if the spirit of recent Zhang Yimou spectaculars have informed this warm and very likable Hollywood fare.
This Panda delivers a cuddle more than a thump.
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.
Formulaic, but entertaining and often dazzling.
One fine movie.
A fun movie that manages to entertain pretty much the whole way through.
Despite the traditional animation platitudes, the film is entertaining and well voiced.
Enjoyable, superbly animated and frequently funny adventure with great voice work, strong characters and some excellent fight scenes.
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.
Audience Reviews for Kung Fu Panda
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- Po: Skadoosh
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- Po: No, master! Don't die!
- Master Shifu: *closes eyes*
- Po: NO!
- Master Shifu: I'm not dying you idiot! I'm relaxing!
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- Po: Oooooh... My tenders!
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- Mr. Ping: Once I had a dream that I ran away to make tofu.
- Po: Then why didn't you!
- Mr. Ping: Because it was a stupid dream.
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- Po: Wow, all of you look bigger than the action figure! Accept for you Mantis.
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- Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
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