KUNG FU PANDA IS BACK!
Time for some more dumplings folks
For those who came in late or have no idea what’s going on, Kung Fu Panda 3 is the third
installment of the series which no one seems to stop loving. With the help of its previous
successors, Kung Fu Panda 3 continues to strive in bringing in the joy and humour to the big
screen with the audience laughing their guts out. With Jack Black voice-acting as Po, and Hans
Zimmer composing the music, and DreamWorks animations producing the film, who doesn’t want
to see a movie of a chunky panda kicking bad guys butt like a samurai warrior?
The story of the movie starts off with Po living a peaceful life until one dramatic moment, after
almost his entire life till now or just his entire life, he finally meets his long-lost father. Once
reuniting with each other, Po and the rest of the martial artist gang come to realize that there is a
malicious and mighty warrior at their midst known as Kai (J.K Simmons). With his father, Po
must transition from student to teacher to train a village of clumsy, lazy, and cuddly pandas in
order to take down the ferocious beast and restore peace back to its rightful place. Of course, a
task like that is not as easy as stealing candy from a baby.
Just like the previous two films, the story of this film doesn’t really steal the audience’s complete
attention which is something that every movie wants to achieve; but, that doesn’t take away the
fact of just how outstanding this brilliant piece of animations is. It’s not just the humour that
thrived in making this a solid film, but it’s the visuals; especially the visuals. The stunning looks of
this film are remarkably breath-taking and that’s something we don’t get to experience in every
animated film out there. The vivid colours screams volumes, the splendid character and location
designs, all of this resuscitates the movie to life. It’s rendered in such beautiful colours that you’ll
try not to blink an eye to miss a single piece of detail.
Moving on, this ground-breaking film offers plenty of entertainment for the children to enjoy and
just enough of it to keep the parents fully awake while watching it as well. However, for a film
whose tagline is, ‘Be the best you can,’ it doesn’t really offer anything fresh and new to the table
if thought about carefully. It offers everything we have come to expect from a Kung Fu Panda
movie which we have already seen before without crushing any new ground with a huge impact
at the end. Once the first film was seen by the world, it gave everyone that sense of wonder to
what’s going to happen to this character or is there going to be a theatrical plot twist to the story.