Just a fun film to watch

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2008)

Kung Fu Panda - ****
Director: Mark Osborne & John Stevenson. Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Ian McShane. Certificate: PG. Duration: 92 minutes. Best Bit: The Escape and Po's training. Worst Bit: had a few corny bits.
If you liked Over the Hedge or The Incredibles you might love this
Yet again an animation with animals appears on our screens, which is OK as this one features a panda. Pandas are awesome.
Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, voiced by Jack Black, who is a fat panda who works in a noodle shop restaurant thing, with his uuurrhhh dad? which is duck. Anyway Po has a dream to be an awesome kung fu master, to fight along the Furious Five and to be taught by the greatest kung fu master in the world - Master Shifu voiced by Dustin Hoffman, who is a RED PANDA which will stop you guessing for the whole film. Although there's a slight problem which is the fact the Po has no Kung Fu fight skills and he's fat. Continuing on, the peaceful village Po lives in is in danger, as there is talk that Tai Long, voiced by Ian Macshane, might escape from Prison, guarded by Michael Clarke Duncan. So after some accidents, some training, then some friendship and then some blah blah blah blah You can kind of guess that story line.
But you can't sometimes guess why they would do some stuff they do, I mean what is it with that finger hold?
First of all the animation, obviously DreamWorks where going for more cartoony look for this film, in which they succeeded. I have to except the character designs where ferpect.
I don't understand why DreamWorks have gone through loads of trouble getting an all star cast when only two of the most noticeable stars talk. They had Angeline Jolie, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu (both of which only said about 10 words each). Most of the less known actors got much more dialogue than the big 'uns, like Dan Fogler and Ian McShane that does exceptional as Tai Long and he's English. So basically Jack black, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane to brilliant and the rest are OK.
To be honest this film didn't have as much gags as I thought it would have, but the gags there where are very very funny. Most of the gags are about the panda's belly, which is totally fine as he's a panda. Some the best scenes are the prison escape, the bridge fight, Po's training and Po's big fight seen.
So overall I'm gonna say this is a great film that will make pretty much anyone laugh, with great voice acting and very good animation. I liked it and so should you. SKADOOSH!