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Jake Coyle, Associated Press: As summer movies get bigger and bigger, they often make us, the audience, feel smaller and smaller. The bright Kung Fu Panda is a simple and lighthearted exception. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Everything about Kung Fu Panda is a little better, a little sharper, a little funnier than the animated run of the mill. It's one of the few comedies of 2008 that knows what it's doing. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The message -- believe in yourself even when all evidence suggests you shouldn't -- is annoyingly familiar and frankly overdue for a serious debunking, but it's not about to happen here. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A gift in a summer that threatens to be seriously short of quality kid entertainment. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The film settles into a succession of ritual spoofs of the kung fu genre, and peddles the sort of cloying preachments about self-esteem and human potential -- panda potential -- that little kids hear all the time on TV. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: There's something about the look of Kung Fu Panda that is so novel and pleasing. Perhaps it's just that we haven't seen this vintage, Far East world in a computer-animated movie before. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Kung Fu Panda is yet another celebrity-voiced animal adventure, but it stands out from the crowd of similar films with its lightning wit and whirlwind brio. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Kung Fu Panda isn't the kind of movie that will make you gasp with surprise as it moves toward its believe-in-yourself destination. But it is the kind of movie that will make you enjoy the journey. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Kung Fu Panda illustrates the dilemma CGI movies find themselves in: They're suspended on a rickety bridge between product and moviemaking, and the boards of our interest are beginning to rot away. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The aphorisms creak. The plot's an open book. But all of those cliches are part of the joke in this ebullient ursine coming-of-age tale about a humble panda destined for greatness. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The animation is consistently sporty and there are some choice comic riffs on martial arts movies. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: With loads of laugh lines, Kung Fu Panda plays with the ying- yang tension of sincerity and irreverance. And it never shirks a popcorn tenet: kernels of wisdom must be tasty. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Very much a Hollywood production -- formulaic, made for marketing and never quite as inspired as it could have been. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Just about all animated movies teach you to Believe in Yourself, but the image of a face-stuffing panda-turned-yowling Bruce Lee dervish is as unlikely, and touching, an advertisement for that message as we've seen in quite some time. Read more
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: The kung fu scenes overflow with crisp, thrilling and funny moments that whiz by in the 88-minute run time. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: This is well-worn territory, from the cuddly slapstick to the Chinese wisdom, but the movie redeems itself with some surprisingly smart and tender moments. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: The animation work is dazzling; it's lovingly detailed without being overdone (particularly the opening sequence, which is hand-drawn and looks like prints struck from ancient woodblocks). Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A relatively harmless bit of animated fun. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Po turns out to be smarter than your average bear, not to mention sweet of disposition and amusingly smart-alecky. ... DreamWorks' animated romp proves charming, if formulaic. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This is an unashamedly old-fashioned children's movie, and a predictable message is part of the mission. But that's okay; what the movie lacks in surprises, it makes up for in whimsical fun Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The animation is dazzling, so lovingly detailed you can make out individual hairs on the titular beastie, and full of bright Chinese images. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength, the tacky-sounding Kung Fu Panda is high concept with a heart. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: While its storyline might seem familiar (in fact, very familiar if you've seen the recent live-action Jackie Chan/Jet Li hit, The Forbidden Kingdom), there's enough invention and irreverence to make the film feel fresh. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is a solid family film material, although one suspects the children will get a little more out of it than their parents. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's elegantly drawn, the action sequences are packed with energy, and it's short enough that older viewers will be forgiving. For the kids, of course, all this stuff is much of a muchness, and here they go again. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen the way they usually happen in animated stories. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The nicest surprise about Kung Fu Panda is that it's so much better than the goofy-cutesy title would lead you to expect. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Manages to entertain and dazzle, and parents won't beat themselves up for sitting through it, although what it teaches could fit on a fortune cookie. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: It's a howl and amazement for anyone under 12. As is often the way with middling kids' movies, parents who grow tired of the film are treated to a satisfying consolation prize: watching their children have fun. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Neither as original as Ratatouille nor as funny as Shrek. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: A master [course] in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment. Read more
Stephen Garrett, Time Out: A parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda, which forgoes the rigors of character development for lazy, bone-crunching mayhem. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: As the credits roll, the film's many flaws come sharply into focus. But while it lasts, Kung-Fu Panda is something of a guilty treat. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Everything that happens in this dull tale of Po, a paunchy panda who becomes a zealous kung fu fighter, is telegraphed well in advance. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal variant on the nerd-with-a-dream recipe. Read more
John Anderson, Washington Post: This computer-animated DreamWorks film is infectious and inspiring, despite one's best efforts to resist its charms. Read more