功夫熊猫

At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength, the tacky-sounding “Kung Fu Panda” is high concept with a heart. Even better, this animated feature from DreamWorks is so consistently diverting and visually arresting that it succeeds in transcending its storybook clichés. The tale has the consistency of baby pablum — it’s nutritious and easy on the gums — but there’s enough beauty and pictorial wit here from opening to end credits, enough feeling for the art and for the freedom of animation, that you may not care.

The panda of the title is Po, a generously proportioned mound of roly-poly black-and-white fun voiced with gratifying restraint by Jack Black. You know the next turn in the road as well as any Disney-and-Pixar-weaned 7-year-old: Po is different, Po has a dream, Po has to struggle and so forth. Po also has a loving father, naturally (and no mother, predictably), a loosey-necked goosey, Mr. Ping (James Hong), who runs a noodle shop that he hopes his son will take over one day. Po’s unlikely passion for kung fu intervenes, leading him out of the noodle shop and into the metaphoric hot pot, whereupon he kicks, grunts and groans toward his destiny amid the usual clutter of colorful sidekicks and one nasty foe (Ian McShane, grrr).

For an ostensible outsider, Po conforms very much to familiar animated-movie type. Like Nemo and the rest of his cartoon brethren, he needs to embark on the hero’s journey, which he does with help from a miscellany of pals voiced by the usual A- and B-listers. Among those nudging and guiding Po is Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), an ancient turtle with a mellifluous voice and long, liquid neck who, um, invented kung fu and now serves as the spiritual adviser (Yoda) to an elite squad, including a kung fu master, the mustachioed red panda Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), and his students, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Crane (David Cross) and Mantis (Seth Rogen).

The screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger is ho-hum without being insulting, a grab bag of gentle jokes, sage lectures, helpful lessons and kicky fights. There is none of the self-conscious knowing that characterizes the Pixar factory, which makes the whole thing seem either winningly innocent or terribly cynical, depending on your mood and worldview. I’ll go with innocent, at least on first viewing, because while “Kung Fu Panda” is certainly very safe, its underlying sweetness feels more genuine than not. The Ayn Randesque bottom line of Pixar’s “Incredibles” can be difficult to argue with — namely, if everybody is special, no one is — but the heroic outsider has his own durable appeal, particularly if he’s a great big bouncing ball of fat and fuzz.

That outsider is even more irresistible when nestled amid so much lovingly created animation, both computer generated and hand drawn. The main story, executed via 3-D animation (all done on computers) and directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, fluidly integrates gorgeous, impressionistic flourishes with the kind of hyper-real details one has come to expect from computer-generated imagery: photorealistically textured stone steps, for instance, and fur so invitingly tactile you want to run your fingers through it. One of the pleasures of “Kung Fu Panda” is that instead of trying to mimic the entirety of the world as it exists, it uses the touch of the real. The character designs may be anatomically correct, but they’re cartoons from whisker to tail.

In the end, what charms the most about “Kung Fu Panda” is that it doesn’t feel as if it’s trying to be a live-action film. It’s an animation through and through, starting with the stunningly beautiful opening dream sequence, a graphically bold hand-drawn interlude rendered by James Baxter that looks like an animated woodblock print with slashes of black and swaths of oxblood red. This opener is so striking and so visually different from most mainstream American animations that it takes a while to settle into the more visually familiar look of the rest of the movie. And while nothing that comes afterward really compares to it, a volley of arrows that falls down like red rain and a delicate swirl of pink petals come delightfully close.

“Kung Fu Panda” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). But not required.

 

第二篇：功夫熊猫观后感(中英文对照)

Kung Fu Panda is a lazy panda, he works in a small store, one day he went to a selection of dragon to a temple of the competitors, in coincidence lazy panda was chosen as the Dragon contender, first everybody doesn't like the panda, because he is very lazy, he didn't like learning kung fu, but we have no way to deal with him.A few days later, the teacher found that the pandas like one thing - eating, panda like eating very much. In order to eat he can do anything, the teacher by training this way it, finally become a first-class master of Kung Fu panda.

It is mainly a fat panda dreams of becoming a kung fu master, and a coincidence that dream become a reality. Of course we need experienced a series of difficult to achieve success.

In the movie what impressed me most was the film in a series of Chinese elements, from the name we can know it is this. Of course, not only have kung fu, and other Chinese elements. In this film, everywhere is full of meaningful dialogues.Such as"To make something special, you just have to believe it's special."

See the "Kung Fu Panda > I think as long as you work hard, everyone can succeed

功夫熊猫是一个懒惰的熊猫，他在一家小店工作，一天他去选择龙的竞争者的寺庙，在符合懒熊猫被选为龙的竞争者，首先大家不喜欢熊猫，因为他很懒惰，他不喜欢学习功夫，但我们没有办法对付他。几天之后，老师发现熊猫喜欢吃的一件事，大熊猫喜欢吃非常多。I

它主要是一个胖胖的熊猫梦想成为功夫大师，并让梦想成为现实的一个巧合。当然我们需要经历了一系列难以成功。

在电影给我印象最深的是在一系列的中国元素的电影，从名字我们就可以知道它是这样。当然，不仅有功夫，等中国元素。

在这部影片中，到处都是有意义的对话。如“做一些特别的东西，你只需要相信它是特别的。”

看《功夫熊猫>我认为只要努力，每个人都可以成功。