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Not necessary, more animated animals pretending to be human
A Customer from Edinburgh,
24th November, 2008
For me these sort of films probably began (and peaked) with Ice Age, and Finding Nemo. I'm not at all sure this film is an improvement on either of those, just more of the same. Obviously I'm not the target audience, although I did like the other two just mentioned. But both of my kids were a bit non-plussed with this effort, and they saw it on the big screen a few months ago and now at home on Blu-ray. It's an odd one really because in this film the 'little guy' comes good through no real effort on his part, it just happens. A bit likeThe Karate Kid but without the whole middle of the film where he works hard, trains, and eventually overcomes the baddie. In this tosh, Panda just gets to become brilliant at Kung Fu because the film needs him to. And all the other Kung Fu disciples, who have presumeably devoted their lives to Kung Fu are unable to beat the baddie; only fat Panda can do that after a few days of training. Also, I had no idea until the final credits that the main parts were spoken by some big names? Why bother? The only people I think that will like this film will have no idea who they are. I mean, it's not like it adds anything to the film even if you did know them, and it's not like they need the money (Jack Black, A Jolie, cant remember any others, oh Lucy Lu maybe?). Give others a chance! I'm just not sure that the world needs any more films of animated animals pretending to be human. Possibly if you're five then none of this matters. In which case rent it for 'em, but don't watch it with 'em!
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