{"id":1445,"date":"2008-06-10T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:25:08","slug":"kung-fu-panda-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/06\/10\/kung-fu-panda-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kung Fu Panda&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nDreamworks brings us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0441773\/\">new animated film<\/a> which is both funny and a worthy addition to the canon of great Kung Fu movies.<\/p>\n<p>The story is set in ancient China, where Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), a large tortoise who invented Kung Fu, has a vision that tells him that Tai Lung (Ian McShane), an evil snow leopard, will soon escape from prison and lay waste to the valley. He decides to find a worthy student to whom to give the Dragon Scroll, which will grant invincibility.<\/p>\n<p>Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) is sure that the honor will go to one of his five top students: Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper or Crane (played respectively by Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, and David Cross.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPo (Jack Black) is a fat, lazy panda. His father, a duck who owns a noodle shop, expects him to go into the family business. &#8220;Broth is in our blood!&#8221; But poor Po is a Kung Fo <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews\/#otaku\">otaku<\/a> who dreams of martial glory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRABBIT 1: It&#8217;s the Dragon Warrior! He&#8217;s awesome!<br \/>\nRABBIT 2: And also strangely attractive!<br \/>\nRABBIT 1: How can we ever repay you?<br \/>\nDRAGON WARRIOR: There is no charge for awesomeness&#8230;or attractiveness!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The movie takes full advantage of the strengths of 3-D animation (dramatic action sequences and special effects) while avoiding its weaknesses (no human characters.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamworks brings us a new animated film which is both funny and a worthy addition to the canon of great Kung Fu movies. The story is set in ancient China,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/06\/10\/kung-fu-panda-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-radio","tag-kung-fu-panda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}