4/2/2023 0 Comments Po kung fu pandaThe recently released second season finds the warriors embark on a globe-trotting journey from India to Central America in their quest to find the magical weapons. The show follows the adventures of Po (Jack Black) who must partner with a no-nonsense English knight named Wandering Blade (Rita Ora) to recover a collection of four powerful weapons from a mysterious pair of weasels. Following the success of the Fresh Del Monte and DreamWorks series “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” global promotion in 2021, the produce giant and animation studio join forces once again to promote “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight.” Rating: 1.Coral Gables, FL – Fresh Del Monte, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated producers, marketers and distributors of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit, today announced a collaboration with “Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight,” the television series created by DreamWorks Animation, now streaming on Netflix. Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight will stream on Netflix starting July 14th. Hopefully, Netflix will learn from this, but if history shows us anything, they won’t. If people who cared more about this franchise developed this, we could’ve seen a genuinely great TV series with the original cast returning. Overall, it’s nice to see that there’s still a story available for Po, but it’s a shame that this new adventure for Po is quite possibly his lamest yet. On a more serious note, the dialogue is a complete struggle to get through, with each twenty-minute episode containing dozens of lines that’ll make even the intended audience cringe. I would appreciate this series more if we didn’t have to sit through nearly a dozen episodes slandering Po as anything less than the most powerful warrior in all of China. Instead, we follow an unlikeable female warrior who only focuses on how much better than Po she is. We no longer get to see the Furious Five in action to face the new threat, two whiny rat-like creatures who steal a mighty gauntlet. In addition to the poor animation, the new characters and story we follow are lame as can be. Except for those moments, we’re stuck with this poorly-lit, uncanny valley version of our lovable titular Kung Fu Panda. Some moments go into a traditional 2D animation style that is visually very appealing, and it makes me wonder why they didn’t do it for the whole series. What makes it so apparent is just how bad the animation is. This show ultimately feels like a lazy attempt at continuing the franchise. I understand that the show isn’t meant to be a work of art, but this entire franchise has focused on children as the primary audience, and so far, they haven’t missed. While discussing my dislike for the show with my dad, he commented that it’s okay for the show to be bad “because it’s for kids.” I absolutely hate that excuse. It doesn’t help either that the awful writing makes this an unbearable show for anybody but little children. It’s a jarring exchange that feels largely unfair to his character. Within the first 15 minutes or so of the first episode, Po’s legacy as the Dragon Master is stripped from him after a disastrous adventure to get “Fat Gobs” (a term which makes as little sense as it sounds and is repeated dozens of times in the first episode). One of my biggest gripes with this show is how they treat Po’s character. However, bringing back the original voice actors isn’t enough to salvage this incredibly cheap production of lazy animation and boring storytelling. Just the most incredible DIGITAL LIGHT CANVAS BY TEAMLAB at Science Museum Singapore 2023 Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight brings back Black in what’s supposed to be more of a return to form.
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