I remember when The Hobbit films started to stink. It was when one iteration deep into the series featured just a bunch of fights and rescues, usually involving castles on steep hills or weirdos resident in dark underground caves.
King Fu Panda 4 checked all those boxes with still more imported scenes from other films. Perhaps I'm sore they missed Mary Poppins in the copy fest.
What a dud. It lost any anchor it once had in the whimsy and wisdom department, and instead went with predictable, silly 2024 jargon put into the mouths of critters supposed to be somewhere in old China. This Panda is too modern in its dialogue ("modern" here not being a good thing) and too detached from the heart and soul of the early Panda. It's as Chinese as the current regime governing that poor country, which is to say not Chinese at all.
No literacy left in mainstream Hollywood. Capable writers have apparently left the room.
King Fu Panda 4 checked all those boxes with still more imported scenes from other films. Perhaps I'm sore they missed Mary Poppins in the copy fest.
What a dud. It lost any anchor it once had in the whimsy and wisdom department, and instead went with predictable, silly 2024 jargon put into the mouths of critters supposed to be somewhere in old China. This Panda is too modern in its dialogue ("modern" here not being a good thing) and too detached from the heart and soul of the early Panda. It's as Chinese as the current regime governing that poor country, which is to say not Chinese at all.
No literacy left in mainstream Hollywood. Capable writers have apparently left the room.