no more than OK - slow, flat writing, nice visuals

Rating: 6/10 (19 June 2011)

I thought it was OK, but no more than that. The writing wasn't very much inspired. There were no amazing jokes, no good story twists and no exciting action sequences. The plot (Poh embarks on a mission to both discover who are his real parents and defeat the inventor of gunpowder, which would make Kung Fu obsolete) unfolded exactly as we expected, but it unpredictably felt very slow at traits. The characters, although funny, are flat in a way that Pixar characters never are. Tigress is perhaps the most disappointing with some 10 lines in total (With so little, she is not even a supporting character: just a dramatic trick for making the story advance.) Poh's traditional laziness seems a bit of an old joke here. The visuals are however beautiful, and the idea of showing Poh's faded memories in 2D is quite cool.