Kids! Have You Ever Seen A Panda Do Kung Fu? No, This Is "wicked."

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2008)

This animated movie from Dreamworks has to be one of the best animation movies that I have ever seen.
A sweet but lazy and a clumsy panda, named PO has dreams of fighting five legendary fighters - a tigress, a Viper, a Crane, a Monkey and a Mantis. But there's a problem and that is that these fighters are all trained in Kung Fu but the Panda isn't and he is working in his father's noodle restaurant, serving noodles to customers. But one day, it is announced that that there will be a selection process of choosing a "Dragon Warrior" and as everyone in the town go to watch this, PO accidentally (nothing happens accidentally) enters this competition and at the same time, there's breaking news that the evil Tai Lang, a Snow Leopard, has escaped from a nearby jail.
Directed by Mark Osbourne and John Stevenson, the voice overs are by Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu and is written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger.
The martial arts movement for this animation was actually put on after the sequences were performed by real artists. But what has really made this into a good and watchable movie is that the story takes place in ancient China and the character of PO is such that it just makes one laugh but deep down one is aware that he is also a sensitive character.
Although the movie is for children, I must warn that there is violence but it is mild and, in some cases, very funny. Targeted at children, this movie is not just for them but for the whole family.