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Movie: Kung Fu Panda

June 19, 2008 on 4:48 pm | In Movies | No Comments

Awesome cartoon.

I am BLINDED by its awesome-ness.

Usually, I find Dreamworks cartoons to be 2nd tier.

Yarr, their animation is top notch. But in originality, story-telling, and just plain enjoyability, they’ve got more misses than hits.

Antz. Never found Woody Allen funny. Lame story. And coming so close after Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. This was disastrous. But as far as bug movies go, way better than Bee Movie.

Prince of Egypt? Forgettable. The whole Shrek franchise? Never liked them. Further hated it for taking the Oscar away from Monsters Inc. And I don’t agree with fluffing Mike Myers’ deluded sense of importance and relevance in our generation’s pop culture.

Shark Tale. Horrible. Don’t understand why they are kissing the grounds that Pixar had stepped on. It’s like all the lame-ass gambling movies following God Of Gamblers. I don’t see how taking a theme someone else just did, and then fitting your sucky story into the theme, can be profitable.

Madagascar. The world can do better sweeping David Schwimmer under a carpet and pretend he never was. Other than the KGB penguins, this didn’t have a lot to offer.

But with Over The Hedge, Dreamworks turned a corner. This must be where they put the self-indulgent producers against a wall and shot them. And allowed good writers to write a good story, unhindered by the putrid input from producers who want to change something just so they can take some credit from the movie’s success later in case it’s a hit. It’s how they measure their manhood. Well, everyone indulges their manhood one way or another, but when producers do it, billions go down the toilet, and the collective intelligence of millions of viewers are given a smack in the face.

Over The Hedge? Truly great and inspired!! Flushed Away? Great fun too.

Kung Fu Panda? Awesome-ness. It bears repeating.

Was a little reserved earlier on cos of Dreamworks, and Mr. Nacho Libre… But I was happily proven wrong. Already seen it three times.

A little disappointing that the characters of the Furious Five were not fully explored. But the movie is all about the panda. Taking damage.

The eternal gag of fat people getting hurt, or getting smacked around. It’s funny. It’s inexplicable. It’s cruel. But it’s true. Moe getting punched = funny. Jackie Chan getting punched, not so funny.

Other than the 101 scenes of Panda getting hurt. The kung fu ‘action’ was also pretty impressive. It’s fantastical, but it’s visually entertaining. Much like The Transporter. Over the top unreal is fun to see.

The story isn’t deep. But just plain fun.