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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/10/2011 : 00:40:51
Bish bosh bish! Fists of Furry. The Panda evolves... emotionally. Hey, it ain't great literature. It's pretty much more of the same - and then some. Which isn't to diss it. Not at all. Though 3D, as with so many flix these days, adds precious little.
The voice actors are real actors and they're good - especially Dustin Hoffman as Shifu, the peace-seeking missile of a Zen master, and Gary Oldman as the evil-est of peacocks.
The Dreamworks animation is smooth as silk - don't miss the "homage fishing from the crescent moon" at the front credits. Jennifer Yuh's direction is fine if not groundbreaking.
And the story, though somewhat predictable, should appeal across a wide age-range - it hasn't got the sweet, sweet heart-break of WALL-E, but then what does? The sub-story of how a big rufty-tufty panda gets a dad who's a goose is told with a subtlety that never descends into sticky pathos - and shows how animation styles needn't be rigid within the same film.
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You should not come out with the feeling you've wasted an hour and a half.
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