An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really expecting much from this new sequel but, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. In fact, I did see all the previous instalments in the movie theater when they were released but, 8 years later, they all got too old for this stuff. And it was basically the main issue with this flick. After such a long time, did we really need another one of those? The way DreamWorks keeps milking their most famous franchises is just disheartening (seriously, they managed to deliver 3 ‘Trolls’ movies so far and ‘Shrek 5’ is coming soon). Even more problematic was the fact that they delivered such a generic tale (on the other hand, I have to admit that I didn’t remember much what happened in the previous movies). At least, the Chameleon was a decent villain and Zhen was a solid sidekick as well. I think it was also a good idea to finally drop the Furious Five because, each time, they really struggled to give each one of them something really interesting to do. However, for some reason, someone thought it would be a great idea to include the two fathers of Po, obviously to bring some humoristic touch because they were both ill-fitted for such Kung Fu adventure but they turned out to be even more underwhelming than the Furious Five after all. Sure, I will have to admit that the animation was really neat but, still, I really didn’t see the point of bringing back this character. The fact that Zhen’s character arc was so predictable probably didn’t help either. They also tackled with the idea that Po should look for a successor which is not necessarily a bad idea but isn’t it the whole point to see a panda fighting some bad guys instead of delivering some pearl of wisdoms? Anyway, to conclude, I guess it was rather harmless and it was watchable after all but I really wonder what they are going to do with the next 2 installments (yes.. they are apparently planning to deliver 6 ‘Kung Fu Panda’ movies…).