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| KUNG FU PANDA (2008) - PG
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by LEW IRWIN
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 Kung Fu Panda is not getting karate-chopped by critics, who are mostly marshaling their linguistic arts to express their indifference toward the movie. "Kung Fu Panda is not one of the great recent animated films," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago-Sun Times. "But it's elegantly drawn, the action sequences are packed with energy, and it's short enough that older viewers will be forgiving." It's another animated feature whose message to kids is "Believe!" Comments Manohla Dargis in the New York Times: "The screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger is ho-hum without being insulting, a grab bag of gentle jokes, sage lectures, helpful lessons and kicky fights." "To make something special, you just have to believe it's special," the title character's father tells him. But Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal remarks, "To make a movie special it's not enough to have brilliant animation. You have to believe in telling good stories." Not necessarily, suggests Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. "This is an unashamedly old-fashioned children's movie, and a predictable message is part of the mission," she writes. "But that's okay; what the movie lacks in surprises, it makes up for in whimsical fun." |
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