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Just saw Kung-fu Panda which was not wholly disappointing. There was a serious detachment in Jack Black's voice over work, the other big names(Hoffman, Jolie, Cross, Liu(not that Liu)) did really well. The cinematography had a lot of little in jokes and throw backs to classic kung-fu flicks like fast zooms and an over abundance of slo-mo which wasn't as annoying as one might think.
The message of the film was good and not as cheesy as I had expected and still fell into martial arts doctrine (whatever that is); at least more than I had hoped. I mean, it is a kids movie.
I was a little disappointed with the actual kung-fu; when you could see it, it was mostly wushu. I found the lack of Shaolin styles to be puzzling. Here's a movie that talks like the critters created kung-fu, which would be a pretty obvious plot device, and yet none of the animals exhibited their own style (you snake doing snake style, crane doing crane style and so on) it was just normal everyday wushu. I'm not complaining, just pointing out my perplexion.
I thought the naming of the master Shifu was a nice little tidbit for kiddies to discover. (As in the Chinese word for master is Sifu or Shifu) What I don't know is what animal Shifu was. I'm betting on Red Panda, but he looked like a fennec fox. I dunno, he was cute.)
Probably one of my favorite parts was the turtle master Oogway. And really as much for the animation and look of him than anything else. The animation in the movie was phenominal, top notch awesome. Just a beautiful, scenic movie all around.
I don't really know what else to say about it. It didn't suck, it was fun, but it didn't have a lot else going for it.
The message of the film was good and not as cheesy as I had expected and still fell into martial arts doctrine (whatever that is); at least more than I had hoped. I mean, it is a kids movie.
I was a little disappointed with the actual kung-fu; when you could see it, it was mostly wushu. I found the lack of Shaolin styles to be puzzling. Here's a movie that talks like the critters created kung-fu, which would be a pretty obvious plot device, and yet none of the animals exhibited their own style (you snake doing snake style, crane doing crane style and so on) it was just normal everyday wushu. I'm not complaining, just pointing out my perplexion.
I thought the naming of the master Shifu was a nice little tidbit for kiddies to discover. (As in the Chinese word for master is Sifu or Shifu) What I don't know is what animal Shifu was. I'm betting on Red Panda, but he looked like a fennec fox. I dunno, he was cute.)
Probably one of my favorite parts was the turtle master Oogway. And really as much for the animation and look of him than anything else. The animation in the movie was phenominal, top notch awesome. Just a beautiful, scenic movie all around.
I don't really know what else to say about it. It didn't suck, it was fun, but it didn't have a lot else going for it.