Everybody loves the kung fu panda
ANUJ KUMAR
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The movie brings alive the magic of dance , humour and fighting. And a lovable panda called Po.
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Po manages to strike an emotional chord with the audience. It appeals to the dreamer in us.
Storming hearts : Totally lovable.
Who thought martial arts could be such fun until a bungling overweight Panda doing kung fu came on.
“Kung Fu Panda” has been welcomed all over the world and India is no exception.
Directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, popular names like Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan have lent their voices for this animation.
Jackie, who himself introduced an element of comedy into martial arts, has done a terrific job.
The film is not just humour, and though full of kicks, punches, somersaults and smash downs, Po manages to strike an emotional chord with the audience. It appeals to the dreamer in us.
Twin goals
Po is a panda who is a kung fu fanatic with secret dreams of becoming a great master in the discipline. However, his weight and clumsiness seem to make his goal unattainable.
His father, Mr. Ping hopes that Po will one day take over his restaurant business, and waits for the right opportunity.
Transforming Po, voiced by lovable Jack Black, into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. The film doesn’t stray from its twin goals of action and humour. It imparts the message about pursuing goals, tickles us with Po’s belly dancing and quickly gets back to the fights. But by the end you know that heroism requires no special ingredient. The animation is stunning. Backgrounds and sets are tributes to Chinese landscape, art and architecture. The fighting style of each animal, whether a tiger or a monkey, is deftly rendered. The right eye-roll of the characters is a must and the co-directors have made sure it doesn’t jar with the punches in the script.
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