Time well spent.... In the movie by DreamWorks The Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black is the voice of Po, a clown-eyed, sheepishly neurotic panda of no visible athletic ability. Black gives Po a slightly abashed suburban-couch-potato sweetness.
The story starts off with Po, who works in his father's (Mr.Ping played by the very funny James Hong) noodle shop but he dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master one day. The day the great Dragon Warrior is to be named Po as usual is running late and he didnt make it in time to attend the ceremony in the Jade Palace, So he devises a crazy contraption where he ties a huge firework display to a wooden chair and lits the wick . He flies though the air landing hard in the middle of the area where the Furious Five - Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Crane (David Cross), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Mantis (Seth Rogen) - are showing off their Kung Fu skills. Po interrupts the ceremony where Oogway (Randell Duk Kim) who is the wisest in all in the land a giant tortoise is speaking and he decreed Po to be the great Dragon Warrior. That's when Kung Fu Panda ignites.
As Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) starts to train Po he notices the total lack of skill and he finds it quite funny - he's such a flabby sack of wrong moves that even his screwups have a bass-ackwards logic that is nearly balletic. But then being the great Master that he is Shifu figures out how to teach this hopeless case the art of kung fu. He uses a bowl of dumplings, which Po is so eager to eat that he'll scramble anywhere, at any speed, to get at them. Kung Fu Panda is light and goofy, yet the fight scenes, which are the heart of the film, are mad fun. Just about all animated movies teach you to Believe in Yourself (the rat who finds the courage to cook! The ogre who learns to love!), but the image of a face-stuffing panda-turned-yowling Bruce Lee dervish is as unlikely, and touching. TWO BIG THUMBS UP. A-
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