Film Summary DCCC (Kung Fu Panda)

 

Oh hellos biggest Jack Black movie that's ever been. 
I can't believe it's taken me almost 15 years to actually watch this darn thing. 

I suspect the reason I never gave it a chance when it came out was becuz I was in my; ''I'm not going to watch these child-centric animated movies anymore'' phase. 
You know being a real loser (teenager) 

I almost wish I had watched this. 
I think I would have liked it a hell of a lot more back then that I did now. 
Well no, I would have been a sarcastic little ass back then. 
But I think I would have warmed up to the movie as the years went on. 

As it is now it's a perfectly competent animated film. But it doesn't really stick out as anything all that special. 
The Jack black humour is amusing but kind of gets in the way of the overall Vibe of the movie. 

The story is okay but really simple and I feel like every character is secondary. 
The Jack Black panda is just there gradually learning to become an actual Warrior from the incompetent booby he formerly was. 
And I'll give the film credit for actually keeping him fairly lacklustre up until around the very end. 
I also liked that he didn't give up in the beginning. He actually had determination form the beginning as opposed to being a completely indifferent person who somehow becomes endowed with Kung Fu powers. 
The body is weak, but the mind is strong.

What in God's name was I on about originally? 

Oh right. The story. 

Simple though I guess that works out best for this kind of movie. 

The lackluster nobody becoming the true warrior he's meant to be and learning that the real secret is that there's no secret. 
All that is stuff's fine but then you have all these secondary characters like the five main Kung Fu students who is trained their whole life to become true Masters and they just feel secondary. 
Like you could have honestly remove them from the main plot and it really wouldn't have affected anything. 
Besides having some comedic moments and a couple dramatic moments fabric throughout the film. 

You do get them fighting the evil kung fu lion cat and that whole seems pretty well put together but you could have removed it from the movie and it wouldn't have changed the story at all. 
Jack Black still fights the evil dark arts Kitty at the end and eventually learns to win by simply becoming a bit of a rolling punching bag. 
Think Homer in that episode where he becomes the boxer but he can actually throw a couple punches.

Overall it's a decent animated flick but nothing truly more. 
I do like that the Jack Black panda's father; whose very clearly not his biological father. Never admits to him that he's adopted and that the conversation isn't even worth having. 
Instead we get a story about sacred noodles. 

Also I like the colour palette of the movie. 
Lots of bright vibrant old Chinese style Reds and greens mixed in with subtle undertones and pink Lily three pedals.

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