Kung Fu Panda

I broke a personal rule today: I went to a PG movie, and a cartoon no less.

I’ve always scorned the digital cartoons. Fuck Nemo. Fuck Cars.

Those are things that my female coworkers see. Bring on the horror movies. Give me a foreign film.

Well, I missed my art house film and ended up seeing Kung Fu Panda.

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

And, in a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease, I was impressed.

This is the official description of the movie:
Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five — Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey — under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it’s up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart – and his girth – into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

SO in normal-speak, This is the movie in five steps:

• Unlikely hero is chosen to save his friends.
• Big bad guy comes.
• Unlikely hero, after some self doubt, learns to believe himself.
• Big bad guy and unlikely hero fight.
• Credits.

 
Kung Fu panda succeeds where Iron Man failed miserably – both movies have extremely basic (some would say generic) plots, but Kung Fu panda is so visually stunning that it keeps the audience in the present. There’s simply too much to look at to mull over where the movie is going.

The action sequences are well done and the landscapes are beautiful.

I’ll even go so far to say that Kung Fu panda is the most impressively produced cartoon since Ghost in the Shell II.

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