I still place it third (last) as my choice for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year (it would be fourth if Waltz with Bashir was included, too), but Kung Fu Panda isn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. There aren't actually as many knocks to the groin as you'd think, and as much as I feared, Jack Black doesn't even come close to the Robin Williams-type hammery I anticipated. The DreamWorks Animation film has much more style and more of an artistic design than either of its Disney-produced competitors. And the color in the movie is beautiful.
Still, I remain surprised that it triumphed so tremendously at this year's Annie Awards. Though it's a great looking film by DreamWorks standards, it's script is pretty mediocre, even compared to the mostly routine (yet well told) story of Bolt. If it does win the Oscar, it will probably be because of the seemed politics of Wall-E.
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