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I can't say enough about this movie! I loved it! I had the pleasure of getting sneak peak passes to see Kung Fu Panda in Toronto before the movie was released it theatres. The sneak peak was in Imax theatres which made experiencing this movie on the big screen even better!
Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman were fabulous in this movie along with the other actors playing the Furious 5 (Angelina Joie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogan & David Cross).
I have to admit that I expected them to have the song Kung Fu Fighting playing somewhere in the background, which they did not, but other than that, the movie completely lived up to its hype!
Since then I have received this DVD for Christmas and I can't wait to watch it over and over again!
We rented this movie over the weekend and it's run pretty much nonstop since we cracked open the case! Very funny and sweet, with a moral to the story (of course) and great little details that take a few viewings to catch them all.
Jack Black is fabulous in this movie, a real standout in a pretty big cast (also stars Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu and Jackie Chan). The writers and technical team did such a good job infusing Po with Black's personality - one of the best portrayals Dreamworks has done in a while, in my opinion.
As with just about every family movie since Toy Story and beyond, the complex characters and subplots are a little out of reach for most kiddies. I personally don't really like this trend of writing for the adults in the audience because it has brought overly mature themes to a genre that is supposed to cater to the whole family, including the tots. (Shrek 2 comes to mind, but don't get me started ;)
I definitely recommend it, but don't expect Junior to get as much knee-slapping out of it as your cousin Mike.
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