Painfully average, with few good moments.

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2009)

It is a common thing these days that animated movies are not made just for kids, but also for adult audience as well. I have no reason to think that kids won't love this movie. Po is interesting character, somewhat funny, but unless you are 12 years old, this film just won't do the thing. Before I watched "Kung Fu Panda" I have read a lot of reviews full of superlatives, excitement and good words for this movie and to be honest, I have expected much, much more. The story is, just as I expected to be, nothing more than million times seen thing like "there is a hero in each one of us, even the most average guys". And to make things worse, writers didn't even try to add anything new. After 15 minutes of this movie, you can pretty much guess the rest of plot, without any errors. But the story is not the only flaw of this movie. It's not even funny. And it is supposed to be, it's animated movie after all. I have read some reviews saying the beginning is little boring, but later on, you will roll on the floor laughing and crying. Honestly, not only I haven't roll on the floor like promised, I have a feeling that I have spent an hour and thirty minutes waiting to see something spectacularly funny, but it never happened. There were few funny moments, but that's it! There was no magic, like in "Wall-E" or "Shrek", no laugh, no nothing, it looked painfully average to me, especially after big expectations I had. I think this movie is pretty much overrated.
By my opinion, 6/10