Official Discussion: Kung Fu Panda 3 [SPOILERS]

It took up wasaaaaay to much time trying to be funny, dude (and failing for the most part, subjective, I know, but they tried to run with this "haha whaaaaaaat" modernesque attitude with the dialouge for ALL the characters this time around, even Shifu and the villian! Like, why does everybody got to be so damn quirky, you had two movies worth of set-up for the characters where, yes, they could be funny, but in different ways that work with the kind of character they were set up to be. For example, an unprepared and brash student-turned-mentor for Shifu, comedy arising from his disdain and shock at just how un-Dragon Warrior like Po is. Now he's just as goofy as all was in the first movie. Maybe that's just Po rubbing off on everyone he meets, I dunno. Like him thinking he's the last of his kind has made him the mammalian equivalent of a parasite that overtakes a host with his witty-isms and "tubular-tude, dude." The villian was basically Tai Lung a-gung (revenge story with a dash of complete annihilation, but with these jade weapons, which is different than the previous two villans, but they don't really do all that much to build him up, even during fights. I guess things being too easy for him is supposed to convince us of how big a fucking deal he is, but to me it lead to a pretty lame collection of battles (aside from the one against the panda village, which technically wasn't against him.) in exabyte for something as interesting to look at as the opening fight scene from Kung Fu Panda 2 (when the wolves attack the village) or the fight between Shifu/Tai Lung/Po in the first movie. Even the emotional backbone of the movie (decently done in the first and improved a bit in the second movie with Po's backstory) the have thrown to the dogs in term of sincerity. They set up a really neat little dynamic between Po and his two fathers in the beginning of the movie, but ended up just playing it up for yucks and (in my opinion) didn't earn the "heartfelt" moment it tried to deliver later on with it...I dunno. At least there's still the first two.

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