 Checked out kung fu panda 4 the other day It's not good Listen, this is a family kids movie. I don't want to be a skadoosh, but I have to be honest here I didn't have high expectations going into kung fu panda 4, but I thought maybe it could win me over But it actually turned me off more. So here we are with a review of kung fu panda 4. Let's begin Before really sinking my teeth into this review I would appreciate it if you could chowd the subscribe button and then I could say bazinga you hit it A lot of really weird funny catchphrases from different characters over the years. It's amazing And there's a brand new catchphrase added to kung fu panda 4 And it's said by the main character of this film zen played by aquafina My favorite before I throw a hissy fit about this actress I have to first say if you're a parent wondering if this movie's fine for your kids Yes, it's absolutely disposable fine trash. They can go they can watch it for an hour and a half get in and out I shouldn't say it's trash. That's unfair. It's just so lame for a kung fu panda movie I thought they really hit the mark with the second one. It was a little bit more adult It had drama it had stuff for the children It really hit the right stride and number one is great too. It's got a lot of kung fu action It's really fun But I thought the third movie really dumbed things down again And it felt way more childish than the previous two entries There just really wasn't anything unique going on with it. And here we are with the fourth easily the worst of this franchise So parents. Yes, this movie's fine for your kids. It's not scary. There's no swearing or anything Poe isn't gonna like eat the flesh off of a person Although that'd be pretty cool for a panda to do in a dream works film. No, it's it's it's fine You could go it's harmless. Maybe take a nap like I almost did during this. Let's talk about aquafina Here's the thing everybody's got that actor, right? Everybody has that person that's in movies And you just kind of roll your eyes or you scratch your head thinking why why does this person continue to get so much work And why are they always in the movies that I tend to be interested in here? We are again with aquafina voicing zen who is basically the protagonist with poe These two are gonna spend the majority of the film together and she just is so Grating on my ears This person named after a bottle of water doesn't put any effort into her performances through the same every single time Whether she's a bird in the little mermaid or a bird in migration or a dragon in rya and the last dragon She's just it's always the same. Oh, let's go over here pow. Whoa. What are you doing? That just happened But why is she in this so much you might be asking yourself Well, it's because the story in this one revolves around poe trying to find a new dragon warrior to take his place So he can become a spiritual leader if this seems like a premature plot point to have it's because it is It's because he's already hit super sane god mode because of kung fu panda 3 He's got that staff. He can do all sorts of magical yellow crap through fireballs and stuff Which he barely does in this movie. In fact, he's downgraded quite a bit Sure, he can he can fight foes He's still stumbling around being a clumsy ove yet using it to his I guess advantage But he doesn't come off as a character that's a force to be reckoned with and his buddy road trip was zen just is not Interesting and it's probably because the photo they're going up with the chameleon Has little screen time and doesn't have any sort of imposing threat The whole gimmick of this film is that chameleon can shape shift and she's going to use this ability To take hold of some of the past villains that post faced off against he squared off against these in both the movies And I would imagine the tv animated series I haven't seen that so I can't say for sure But I would imagine there's cameos from those as well and a fan favorite was set to return Ty long he's coming back. He's gonna kick butt And let's pump the brakes. Let's pump the brakes on some of these foes. This is a very back heavy film We're not seeing a lot of these characters And definitely not in the way you want to so we have a really lame a plot and then there's also this B storyline that is so bizarre. I don't know who thought this was a fun idea But we follow poh's two dads his adopted goose parent and the original panda biological father that he found in the third movie They're gonna road trip together as well. They're on poh's tail pun intended Finding the places that he went to questioning people and moving on Hygienx and sue. It's not very funny I just found this to be a headscratcher because in this movie they're concerned about poh Going up against the chameleon. He's met his match But we haven't really seen the chameleon yet and they haven't for sure So I don't know why she's she's the big bad that everybody's worried about When she hasn't proved herself and i'm not even sure they know who she is They've just heard some things the most egregious part of all of this is the furious five MIA there are no furious five in this movie. They're off doing their own thing poh tells us right when this movie fires up Tigress gone mantis nowhere to be found Probably because they don't want to pay the voice actors to return I imagine that's a costly thing to get angeline a jolly seth rogan jackie chan These people aren't cheap But this movie kind of feels like it is a very tame storyline. No real dramatic elements. No real amazing reveals It's just so formulaic Even visually it's doing nothing exciting in the past kung fu panda movies There's been some amazing wide sweeping shots some great scale some beautiful renders This is just so kind of by the books Again, I realize this is a family flick geared towards little ones Do we need a review for that? I mean that that that's fine take them if you want waste some money in an afternoon Just for me as an adult going There was some something special about the kung fu panda series that did speak to adults Kind of like how to train your dragon. Those were both really great movie franchises And hopefully they don't do this with how to train your dragon bring a fourth one out That feels like it's just there to make money and not have even a tiny ounce of passion put into it From an action standpoint a lot of it's chase scenes. There's kung fu towards the end But for the most part it's not kung fu panda. It's more like running away falling over stuff panda That's what you can expect from this one laughs Hidden miss. It's I got it's just got so much generic crap in it You know the cute star and mario. It's like we're all gonna die and it's funny It's funny hearing that dark doom and gloom coming out as such a cutesy character And that's been done a bunch of different times before that and here we are again with these three little bunnies That are like, ah, we're gonna feast on your remains. It's just Okay, I get it. This is what we're doing bottom line. It's watchable, but I'd rather watch something else That's I guess the takeaway for this one I definitely would not waste money seeing this in theaters unless you are desperate to get the kids out for the afternoon I can't imagine an eight-year-old or under is going to be disappointed or underwhelmed But my kids are getting a little older now. They have no interest. So I went to this by myself So sad But I do it for you. 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