Horst_In_Translation Review of Chop Kick Panda

Chop Kick Panda (2011 Video)

Another take on Kung Fu Panda, not bad, not good

[4/10 · 2 December 2016]

"Chop Kick Panda" is a 36-minute animated movie from 2011, so it has its 5th anniversary this year. The director is the fairly experienced Darrell Van Citters and the writer is the not so experienced Robert Zappia. I am not familiar with any of the voice actors I must admit, but I guess most of you aren't either. It is a Canadian/American co-production, so the language is English and it is not one of these Brazilian Portuguese-languages rip-offs. But you can still call it a bit of a rip-off, not just because of the title, but also because of the characters and story a bit I guess. All in all, I would not say this was a watch as bad as the IMDb rating suggests as there are occasionally even funny moments and the plot was not entirely unoriginal either in my opinion. But also the story could have been a bit better. I am still glad they did not force-push it to the exact length of the KFP movies, which means for about another hour as then I may not have been this generous with my rating. It's not a disastrous watch. but there is also nothing that stands out from it. Thumbs-down from me overall and I don't recommend seeing this (relatively long) short film.