Watched Kung Fu Panda 4
Jun. 29th, 2025 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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movie_buffsBefore I watched it, I had this feeling the 4th entry on this movie series was not going to be all that spectacular. Pretty much how I felt before watching the third one.
Unlike the third movie however, part 4 felt the part of my expectations and then some. Being completely unremarkable in every aspect of the meaning and as predictable as you may expect from the beginning of the film. The new villain Chameleon had an inkling of interest but it was completely wasted on making her a cookie cutter of every other villain in an animated movie, and the new protagonist Zhen the fox is spectacularly uninteresting.
It didn't help that her voice actor, Awkafina, sounded mostly hushed during the entire thing, even when she makes the character scream and grunt during some scenes. I suspect even she found that character as bland as I had. The rest of the cast within the movie make a cameo appearance at the end of the movie without any lines spoken, my opinion being Dreamworks just didn't want to bother to ask its stellar cast to resume their roles, even though they could had hired someone less expensive to fill in that being the case.
All in all the movie itself is quite boring. I had the endurance to go through it in order to watch this unnecessary continuation of the entire thing. If you can even refer to this movie as that.
Unlike the third movie however, part 4 felt the part of my expectations and then some. Being completely unremarkable in every aspect of the meaning and as predictable as you may expect from the beginning of the film. The new villain Chameleon had an inkling of interest but it was completely wasted on making her a cookie cutter of every other villain in an animated movie, and the new protagonist Zhen the fox is spectacularly uninteresting.
It didn't help that her voice actor, Awkafina, sounded mostly hushed during the entire thing, even when she makes the character scream and grunt during some scenes. I suspect even she found that character as bland as I had. The rest of the cast within the movie make a cameo appearance at the end of the movie without any lines spoken, my opinion being Dreamworks just didn't want to bother to ask its stellar cast to resume their roles, even though they could had hired someone less expensive to fill in that being the case.
All in all the movie itself is quite boring. I had the endurance to go through it in order to watch this unnecessary continuation of the entire thing. If you can even refer to this movie as that.