Not Pixar, but great nevertheless

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2008)

Even Pixar will be happy that other companies can produce good animated entertaining movies. Kung Fu Panda owes of course much to it's voice talent. Jack Black has to be mentioned first, and even without having seen any extras or behind the scenes videos, I'm pretty sure he did some improvised/ad-libbing!
But apart from that, the story works well too. It's full of in-jokes, one of which I only got after I watched the movie, when a friend of mine told me that "shifu" means Master in Chinese ... Dustin Hoffmans character is called "Master Shifu" ... see what they did there! Great entertainment for kids and adults then! :o)