There's something about the look of Kung Fu Panda that is so novel and pleasing. Perhaps it's just that we haven't seen this vintage, Far East world in a computer-animated movie before.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2014

The animation work is dazzling; it's lovingly detailed without being overdone (particularly the opening sequence, which is hand-drawn and looks like prints struck from ancient woodblocks).

| Nov 22, 2013

As the credits roll, the film's many flaws come sharply into focus. But while it lasts, Kung-Fu Panda is something of a guilty treat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Manages to entertain and dazzle, and parents won't beat themselves up for sitting through it, although what it teaches could fit on a fortune cookie.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

This Panda delivers a cuddle more than a thump.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black.

| Sep 10, 2008

The aphorisms creak. The plot's an open book. But all of those clichés are part of the joke in this ebullient ursine coming-of-age tale about a humble panda destined for greatness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2008

It all whizzes along at an invigorating pace and there's plenty to please a young child but if you're looking for the kind of insights that made Ratatouille such a feast, you'll have to wait for Pixar's next.

| Jul 10, 2008

This is the finest DreamWorks Animation effort since the first Shrek

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2008

More original plotting could have bolstered this visually magnificent production.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2008

The action tends to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos.

| Jun 10, 2008

The fight choreography in Kung Fu Panda is the real draw. And, especially in IMAX, the film is never visually boring.

| Jun 9, 2008

Hardly a groundbreaker, but still impressive in a good many of its particulars.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2008

The film settles into a succession of ritual spoofs of the kung fu genre, and peddles the sort of cloying preachments about self-esteem and human potential -- panda potential -- that little kids hear all the time on 온라인카지노추천.

| Jun 6, 2008

Everything that happens in this dull tale of Po, a paunchy panda who becomes a zealous kung fu fighter, is telegraphed well in advance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2008

Neither as original as Ratatouille nor as funny as Shrek.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2008

A master [course] in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment.

| Jun 6, 2008

Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen the way they usually happen in animated stories.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2008

The animation is dazzling, so lovingly detailed you can make out individual hairs on the titular beastie, and full of bright Chinese images.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2008

This is an unashamedly old-fashioned children's movie, and a predictable message is part of the mission. But that's okay; what the movie lacks in surprises, it makes up for in whimsical fun

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2008