The Story To Kung Fu Panda

The story to ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is nothing really new, but it is told so well as

to actually pack an emotional punch. And it never comes off as laughable, which in

lesser hands could easily have happened. Speaking of laughs, there are many to be

had here as well. ‘Kung Fu Panda’ works on just about every level a family movie

can.


The cast features Jack Black as Po the Panda. The furious five, the most

feared group of warriors in all of China, consists of Tigress (Angelina Jolie),

Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Roger), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Crane (David

Cross).

Their master is Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), a fur ball creature who is a legendary

teacher of Kung Fu. Escaped from prison and on hi way to claim the Dragon Scroll,

which will make him the all powerful Dragon Warrior, is the good gone bad Tai Lung

(Ian McShane). But first, he’ll have to muscle his way around 400 pounds of panda

to get to it.


‘Kung Fu Panda’ is a damn good time at the movies. This was the movie that

Dreamworks Animation so desperately needed after the disappointing ‘Shrek The

Third’. With gorgeous animation, spectacular action, a great cast and dramatic

weight of an Akira Kurosawa film, Kung Fu Panda is one of the favourite movie of

the year.