"Kung Fu Panda" is a kids fun house of animals-do-martial-arts animation, voiced by some top stars, available in IMAX, and that won't bore the adults. While I have some qualms about making an overweight panda a hero, he does have to do some real work to train for his calling. Animation is expressive and masterful, and the Kung Fu contenders - tigress, monkey, mantis, viper, and crane - are imaginatively drawn characters. Compositions draw heavily from martial arts movies with the kind of zooms and angles that only CGI can provide. Besides the fun, there's an earnest lesson or two, and a fan-boy dreamer who gets his chance at the big time story that many little dreamers will identify with.
Rated PG. 92 minutes. Mark Osborne - Director, John Stevenson - Director, Jonathan Aibel - Writer (screenplay), Glenn Berger - Writer (screenplay), Ethan Reiff - Writer (story), Cyrus Voris - Writer (story), Melissa Cobb - Producer, Yong Duk Jhun - Cinematographer, John Powell - Composer, Hans Zimmer - Composer, Raymond Zibach - Production Designer, Clare Knight¹ - Editor. Distributed by DreamWorks Animation.
Principal actors (voices): Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim.
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