Kung Fu Panda 3

Poe’s back, with the introduction of the panda’s village. The premise was strong. The great choreography fight scenes returned. But, as always I want to warn the readers that I’m not an expert in 3D rendered animation and “if one wants to create an animation, he/she can create literary everything on the screen.”

The first I want to talk about is the concept. It had a nice concept and very friendly for anyone who consume it. The message of this film was simple, straight, and didn’t need anything complicated. But the simple message of this film effected the ordeal of the film – I’ll get back to this later. The Kung Fu Panda franchise was known to present a question which kept on repeating itself, “who am I?” It was the general concept of the franchise. Each installment only looked at it in a different way.

The antagonist in the film was pretty much like the first installment – works alone, scary, and powerful – I think him as the extreme version, but not yet fullfil my satisfaction. It was kind of disappointing to see the gap between the antagonist from the second installment. The antagonist from the second installment had EVERYTHING (including a whole army) which could conquer whole China. The concept of the antagonist in the second installment was pretty smart – fists v. guns. Whereas the antagonist in the latest installment only had DARK MAGIC. It didn’t look as massive as the second installment.

Poe’s journey was amazing. 3 installments in a row with great reception and fun concept is very hard to achieve. But, I don’t think there will be a 4^th installment. My feeling tells me, if they did a 4^th , it would be forcing.

The verdict:

Great concept and message for the audience, but the antagonist in the film needed to be more larger than its predecessors.