Audience Reviews for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness: Season 1

• Jan 28, 2022

  Guess I remember more episodes from this show than I thought I did. With that being said, Legends of Awesomeness never impressed me that much, even when it first aired. I was hyped with the memory of the really good second movie still fresh in my mind but overall, it felt like "the show I had to sit through before SpongeBob and The Penguins of Madagascar". There are some decent episodes, the voice acting's good (I genuinely thought it was Jack Black voicing Po at first but nope, it's the guy from the video game tie-ins), a funny joke every once in a while and an okay theme song but its biggest problem was being so damn bland. The animation looks like clay, clearly suffering from emulating the movie's art style on a TV budget which doesn't have the cartoony direction that Madagascar had. The action sequences are much less impressive than what we've seen throughout the film trilogy, and even some clips from the Amazon show I have no interest in seeing. The 2012 CGI Ninja Turtles show debuting a year later just calls more attention to this. And the structure hurts the show quite a bit, since rather than trying to develop the characters, it's mostly just The Furious Five playing second fiddle to Po's antics. Come on, you explored their backstories in short films, you can explore their psyches here. The villains of the week are forgettable, which doesn't help either. Also, the third movie indirectly rendered the Nickelodeon cartoon non-canon, making any further investment in this series a moot point. I tried to like the continuation of the Kung Fu Panda's adventures but it ultimately felt like what we feared the movie was going to be when it was announced for the first time, despite the writers' best efforts to make something salvageable. Tough luck, Dragon Warrior.