Took the family to see Kung Fu Panda last night. We got a gift card to Chunky's Cinema Pub, which is a local chain of eat-in cinemas in the Northeast. You have dinner and a movie at a reasonable price, and the food's actually pretty edible...
I really liked Kung Fu Panda, which surprised me somewhat. Jack Black, the voice talent behind the title character, is an actor I would really like to hate, but can't. He's made a career out of playing the affable loser, the fish-out-of-water who succeeds not despite himself (like Adam Sandler's man-child characters) but because of himself. He plays characters I normally wouldn't like, except he has this annoying habit of making me like them anyways...
The movie was very well done - I have to give major props to Dreamworks for this one. There was no overt or even covert moralizing (a la the anti-suburbia feel to Over the Hedge), just a fun story about good giving evil an old-fashioned butt-whooping. The characters are, for a 90 minute kid's movie, well-developed, likeable, and appealing; the action is rapid-fire and engaging (my 5 year old daughter stayed awake the whole movie!); overall it's a solid hour and a half of fun.
Go see it. Encourage more like it. Hollywood should be nudged into making more like this.
(Side note: one of the trailers is for Madagascar II, which looks to be a hoot...)
That is all.
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My whole family loved it, as well. I use the movie as a backdrop when telling my kids to perform a chore, as well, & it makes them laugh;
"Hey, clean your room. Or else I'll flex my pinkie"!
still gotta see Kung Fu Panda... Jack Black is classic for sure; he'll be forever famous for his work in School of Rock
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