pretty good for kids and dads

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2008)

What a relief! A movie that dad can watch with his kid. Thank you thank you thank you. I had 5 hours of bob the builder, and so this was a pleasant relief. The jokes were funny and cute, the dilemmas were touching and sad, and ending was only a little bit corny. The violence was overboard and cartoonish (sort of like bugs bunny back in the day--sure, someone is going to be shot by a shotgun, but no lasting effects if you're the good guy). So, it's okay for the kids, i felt.
The only reason I didn't rate this higher? Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu....not that they actually took anything away from this movie, but they sure didn't add anything, either. This movie could have been made with Jack Black as Po, Dustin Hoffman as Shifu, and whoever the next 5 extras in Hollywood as the fierce five. So...while it didn't really take anything away from the movie by having them in there, since it didn't add anything, I figure it was to stoke some stars egos to cast them in a dreamworks movie. For that reason, not a perfect score....