Kung Fu Panda 4
critic Reviews
, 71% Fresh Tomatometer Score- Kung Fu Panda 4 offers enough eye-catching entertainment to sustain the franchise's young fans, although it's starting to feel like this series is running out of steam.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMark KermodeKermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
If the script was sharper or funnier and if the gags were better maybe you wouldn't notice, but it does feel like a lot of it is a bunch of people in recording booths doing some schtick and them animating around it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreEd PottonTimes (UK)
The plot may be cursory — Po has to graduate to spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace and find a successor for his job as dragon warrior — but Black attacks it with knockabout zeal.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTara BradyIrish Times
Caveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoyment. A lesser Kung Fu Panda movie remains vastly superior to most mainstream animated features.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRobbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
The script is just as pallid. There’s lots of hackneyed comic repartee but no real vocal chemistry between the players, a trio of cutesy prepubescent hoodlums that may feel awkwardly familiar to anyone who’s seen Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon...
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJake WilsonThe Age (Australia)
Whether there’s any kind of larger allegory here might be worth pondering -- though it might also be the real lesson is not to read too much into a series titled Kung Fu Panda.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreCath ClarkeGuardian
It failed the wriggle test on my seven-year-old cinema date, who was squirming in her seat around the hour mark.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRich ClineShadows on the Wall
This is some of the finest animation Hollywood can produce, impeccably catching glorious Chinese landscapes and architecture along with witty nods to culture, food and art.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreNelson AcostaKoimoi
Kung Fu Panda 4 feels like treading water, a movie that should have dealt with serious subjects, considering the context of its premise and the audience that loves these films but chooses to aim only at very young kids.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAndrew KendallStabroek News
Kung Fu Panda 4 is occasionally diverting on its own, but it does little to truly excite or announce itself as essential viewing. It’s a disappointing turn for the franchise.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreCraig D. LindseyMetro Times (Detroit, MI)
After three Kung Fu Panda movies that gave us a decent mix of hilarity and pathos, however, this derivative, annoyingly predictable volume seems like a letdown.
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