Kung Fu Panda 4

MOVIE #1,686 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.31.24 Even though I have two young kids, I don’t go deep with the Kung Fu Panda franchise. I think both of my children’s first exposure to it was at the very tame Universal Studios Hollywood ‘ride’ last summer. But when there’s a new kids flick out that grosses a ½-billion dollars or more, you better believe that ~$50 came from my wallet. I actually took a random note during our viewing at the theater: “Orchestral, Asian-flared instrumental version of ‘Crazy Train’ goes hard.” So there’s that. I don’t know, something felt half-baked about this. I love Jack Black and wanted to like this more but pretty much the whole fam’s reaction to this one was ‘meh’. I’m not sure why exactly we never landed on any of the previous movies at home, but this one definitely didn’t inspire us to go digging any time soon. PS. I guess this actually qualifies for an episode of "Well, Hong" as well.

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Kung Fu Panda 4 is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the fourth installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016). The film was directed by Mike Mitchell, co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine, written by Darren Lemke and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and produced by Rebecca Huntley. It features Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, and Ian McShane reprising their roles from the previous films, with Awkwafina, Ke Huy Quan, Ronny Chieng, Lori Tan Chinn, and Viola Davis joining the cast as new characters. In the film, Po (Black), who must find and train his successor as the new Dragon Warrior, teams up with fox bandit Zhen (Awkwafina) to defeat evil sorceress The Chameleon (Davis), before she steals the kung-fu abilities of all masters in China. It was released on March 3, 2024.