This is busy stuff even for a grown-up movie, and while the directors keep things moving at a decent clip, the story also has the weird effect of bogging down as nothing seems to really have enough time to resonate. Kai captures Oogway’s chi – his spiritual essence (also known as the Force in some parts of the universe) – and adds it to his collection of chi captured from other kung fu masters, which he freezes into jade statues that he control as his own personal army. Simmons), who were once friends – not to mention master and apprentice – but have now been enemies for some 500 years.
The movie opens with a battle in the spirit world between kung fu master/ancient turtle Oogway (voiced by Randall Duk Kim) and bull creature Kai (J.K. Kung Fu Panda 3 is not terrible, but it’s not terribly exciting either, and while the overly complicated script adds some new wrinkles and characters to the ongoing story of our panda hero Po (a returning Jack Black), there’s a contrived feeling to it all that keeps it from being the truly emotional story that the screenwriters (Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger) perhaps thought they were telling. It’s too bad, then, that the movie otherwise has that air of a rote installment in a series that is merely trying to stretch itself into as many entries as it can. The colors and compositions are striking throughout, and the character work is truly vibrant and detailed, giving the animals that populate the film real life and texture in addition to visual depth. Directors Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, along with their team of animators at DreamWorks, have created perhaps the most gorgeous of the films yet, utilizing excellent CG/3D work and switching occasionally to a 2D, more hand-drawn look for flashbacks. Three movies in, the Kung Fu Panda franchise is looking more beautiful than ever.
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