I originally took my youngest daughter to see this movie at the cinemas which is really just an excuse for me to see an animated film. I am a huge fan of animated movies but Pixar usually controls the best of position in the computer generated animated feature film category. The problem is, Pixar movies are exceptional but can sometimes forget they are mainly for kids and so are a bit heavy with the storylines. Dreamworks remembers to simply have fun and getting comedian Jack Black to play the titular Po, was a master stroke. He IS Po, full of awkward determination to achieve his seemingly unachievable goal.
But Jack isn't the only star to voice a character. Dreamworks has gathered am impressive cast of actors to voice the furious five and other main characters including: the brilliant Dustin Hoffman plays the exasperated Master Shufu who must mold Po's clay into iron; the wonderful Angelie Jolie as the usurped Tigress, contender for the top position until Po falls from the sky; also Jackie Chan is Monkey, Seth Rogen is Mantis and Lucy Lui is Viper. The bad guy, Tai Lung, is the nasty Ian McShane (no swearing in this movie thanks!) and his jailer is the late Michael Clarke Duncan with a voice as deep as the jail that Tai Lung is imprisoned within.
A wonderful story married with some of the most beautiful animation for a kids film ever produced.
I recently re-watched this movie on DVD and it hasn't lost any of it's brilliance. However, the Bonus Features were a little hard to sit through with a class on the Kung Fu moves of our heroes to learn (!?) as well as a crappy dance to learn as well. One of the best features was on the incredibly varied languages that the film had to be dubbed into for it's international releases but that there is no word that translates for 'Skadoosh' - very funny.
Dare I say it? Thsi movie is AWESOME! I highly recommend - 9/10.
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