Kung Fu Panda 4I wrote a whole review for this, probably my longest one so far, and it literally just deleted itself so I have to start over. I'm going to make one section for negatives and one for positives. Overall though, this movie was not good.
The pacing was so hard to keep up with, as there were numerous times different scenes were never revisited and were skipped in a very annoying fashion. The villain was pretty cool to begin with, but her fate is so predictable and when she is taken down it is less satisfying with how lame and fast the battle was. Poe dominated her even thought she had the "power of all the other dragon warriors" which was stupid. The audience is just evidently supposed to understand and accept all the magic stuff, which yes I know oogway was with, but that kind of took away from him because this rando gecko is just able to do all of what he did was really annoying. The furious five were gone. What?!? Why would you take out such an entertaining and nostalgic thing from this series? Shifu also got ignored after the first 10 minutes. Losing these characters made it not feel like a kung fu panda movie, and the new characters did not fill the holes. The jokes were ok, but mostly bad. Just like the TMNT movie that i reviewed earlier in the year, the woke jokes were really cringey and obnoxious and forced. On a positive note, the relationship between Poe and Mr. Ping is beautiful. The noodle restaurant is the same and I still love the temple as well. The soundtrack was great! The theme of KFP is iconic and they didn't overuse it and had a nice score from Hans Zimmer. The animation was great, and so were the graphics. The scene in the restaurant was genuinely funny and reminded me of the scene from Brave with the lucky duck pub. Overall this movie was bad, as I felt super let down. I loved the first two movies so much, the third was just ok, and so I had high hopes that this one would feel like one of the originals (it didn't). Sad to see the furious five out of the movie, and frustrating that Poe can't just BE the dragon warrior. There is no reason they have to keep playing with his title, just put him on a mission or something! 6.5/10
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