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Kung Fu Panda 4

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Jack Black

Awkwafina

Viola Davis

Dustin Hoffman

Bryan Cranston

James Hong

Ian McShane

Ke Huy Quan

Ronny Chieng

Lori Tan Chinn

Seth Rogen

Jimmy Donaldson

James Murray

James Sie

Cedric Yarbrough

Vic Chao

Audrey Brooke

Lincoln Nakamura

Cece Valentina

April Hong

Suzanne Buirgy

Logan Kim

Reyn Doi

Mick Wingert

Peggy Etra

Gedde Watanabe

Karen Maruyama

Tom McGrath

Phil LaMarr

Mike Mitchell

Colleen Smith

Sarah Sarang Oh

Paul Pape

James Taku Leung

Steve Alterman

Christopher Knights

Harry Shum Jr.

Hans Zimmer

Justin Weg

Natalia Cronembold

Paul Duncan

Steve Mazzaro

Christi Soper Hilt

Glenn Berger

Jonathan Aibel

Mary M. Quinn

Patrick Giusiano

Betsy Nofsinger

Steven Schweickart

Sean Sexton

Ludovic Bouancheau

Peter Maynez

Julian Slater

Felicia Chen

Sabina Vafina

Steven R.V. Johnson

Janel Drewis

Brooke Shay Bradford

Darren Lemke

Laurent Caneiro

Hans Dastrup

Antony Gray

Zachary Glynn

Ethan Van der Ryn

Greg P. Russell

Kelly Vawter

David Lisbe

Carlos F. Puertolas

C. Jin Im

Seth St. Pierre

Steven Hornby

Daniel Edwards

Joshua Gunther

Erik Aadahl

Mark A. Hester

Alex Flesig

Calvin Tsang

Julien Bocabeille

Chelsea Blecha

Wayne Tsay

Alex Timchenko

Euni Cho

Carl Hooper

Hewrin Yoou

Ryan Vicik

Kitty Fung

Philippe Le Brun

Natalia Corsie

Nideep Varghese

Guillermo Careaga

Matt Shepherd

Nacho Cantalejo

Mark Roennigke

Max Bruce

Jorge García

Boris Maras

Aly Killian

Bill Díaz

Tyler Phillips

Pete Paquette

Maarten Lemmens

Manar Al Tawam

Guillaume Jallon

Jonathan Ciscon

Young-Ji Cha

Geoff Wheeler

Richard A. Fournier

Ryan Hobbiebrunken

David Polk

Robyne Powell

David Couchariere

Tom Davis

John Wong

Cory Rogers

André Lacroix

Jeff Williams

Garrett O'Neal

Anthony Hodgson

Ryan Rubin

Ariel Chisholm

John J. Lee

Andrew Wheeler

Vahe Yefremian

Prasanjib Nag

Ryan Page

Chadd Ferron

Bob Wilson

Bruno Hamzagic

John Han

Michelle Cowart

Ares Deveaux

Chris Sawin

_Kung Fu Panda 4_ isn’t the best _Kung Fu Panda_ film, or even the best of the series’ three sequels. However, as a fourth film in a franchise, it’s a ton of fun.

And though it’s action isn’t quite as entertaining as its predecessors and it’s unfortunate to see Awkwafina playing yet another thief (_Jumanji: The Next Level_ says hello), for the most part, _Kung Fu Panda 4_ happily skadooshes its way to animated greatness.

**Full review:** https://bit.ly/KuFuPa4

CinemaSerf

This is probably my favourite of the franchised animated action-comedies, but I think we are now clearly running out of conceptual steam. With "Po" being told by "Master Shifu" that it is now time for him to move onwards and upwards - much to his chagrin - he must recruit a new dragon warrior so he can retreat to more cerebral pastimes. Luckily, though, the "Chameleon" has designs on obtaining all the powers from those now consigned to the nether realm and using the powers of Kung Fu to take over the world. "Po" has to be put his promotion on hold and along with his new-found, and useful, foxy friend "Zhen" try to thwart these heinous ambitions. Though there's plenty of action and self-deprecating dialogue the storyline really is too much of a recycled affair. Even the panda has been drawn into the multi-verse and to be frank, I'm a bit bored with that theme now - especially as it's never really accompanied by much in the way of jeopardy. Yes, this is an entirely predicable story that, in this case, misses out on the characterisations of his pals from the "Furious Five". It's watchable and the story well paced; there's some fun to be had in the wobbly, mountain-top, tavern but I think I've already forgotten most of it.

**Written by kindergartners using AI**

Even after more than 10 years, I still miss the first Kung Fu Panda movie as it was genuinely a masterpiece. The story, action, dialogues, character building, the tension between Tai Lung and Shifu, everything was fabulous. Well, I can go on and on about the first Kung Fu Panda, but this is about this unbearable trash Kung Fu Panda 4.

This movie is so bad that calling it boring would be a compliment. Out of nowhere, this Zhen character manifests. All the formula film scenes replicated, unnecessary fights, moving around without any purpose, cracking jokes (painfully unfunny) out of nowhere, and so on. I wanted to leave the movie after 20 minutes but then I thought maybe something good would happen. However, I was wrong till the end. 

Pathetic direction, dialogue delivery and unfunny jokes started feeling irritating. No chemistry between Po and Zhen, and somehow they both are ready to die for each other. The Zhen character was uninteresting and annoying.

Just like contemporary movies where people get everything without any sacrifice or struggle, they managed to "Mary Sue" Zhen by making her the next dragon warrior.

I am glad that this movie ended this way. At least now I know I won’t be watching any more trash from this franchise.

If you loved the first Kung Fu panda, please stay away from this. Please save and cherish your good memories. You have been warned.

*I wanted to give it 1.5, but the sliding scale couldn’t select it, so I gave it 2/10.

Chandler Danier

I'm into movies that simulate the 'watching a video game' experience. Classic Shang Tsung end boss. Shadow of the Colossus gameplay. Maybe a diss to Dune? It's predictable and full of dumb shit but I found myself enjoying it. Jables does good. I found abrasion to be front-loaded and maybe he mellows out but... a muted, yet powerful performance. I did smoke weed during the first few minutes.

I love Awkwafina.

Out of nowhere, this fox character manifests! Out of nowhere, this panda character manifests! Out of nowhere, these villain characters manifest! We have got some top notch reviewers on this website, Souljaboytellem!

Dialog writers need to remove certain words from their joke book, like "method", as in method acting. When I hear method acting, I think Jared Leto. Associating Jared Leto's "method acting" with your movie probably isn't a good thing. Method acting and Jared Leto occupied real estate rent free for the entirety of this movie. It didn't help that they couldn't stop themselves from thinking "it's so nice, we'll say it twice".

The story is predictable, made worse by the spoon feeding. To add insult to injury, the back and forth between Po and Zhen up until the "big stink" is good enough to maybe throw you off if you haven't seen it a dozen times already or if they hadn't spelled it out.

Po's dads are fine. He has a biological widowed father and an adopted father. We know these characters. Their subplot is kinda unnecessary but the "two dad's" thing isn't rocket science.

<em>'Kung Fu Panda 4'</em> is much like its predecessors for me, I'm cool with them but they don't hit any deeper than being just solid movies. I had to watch a recap of the previous entries, naturally, and didn't remember much, aside from the cast and main characters.

I reckon I'll be saying the exact same thing in X amount of months about this one, that doesn't necessarily mean a film is bad though - because this release isn't. The voices we hear are perfectly satisfactory, from Jack Black to Awkwafina, Viola Davis (the best, away from lead) and the rest.

The music here is good. There is one piece of the score, which is heard a couple of times and during the end credits, that must be a homage of sorts to television show <em>'Dexter'</em> - weird connection granted, but it sounds practically exactly the same to me.

On the note of the sound, I enjoyed Tenacious D's rock cover of "...Baby One More Time". I listened to it an embarrassing amount when it first released alongside this movie, the video was admittedly part of the reason why - I'm always a fan of seeing film casts in music videos.

There's a decent story told, alongside nice animation. It'll no doubt be forgettable to me personally, but I can still acknowledge it as something that I deem passable.

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