I can end this review in few words - Brilliant Animation. Not very funny Movie.....But, maybe the few readers that we have here may not get a bang for their buck so to speak, so I will fill this space a bit more -

So, is it typecasting on my part if I expect any animation movie to be funny? YES!
Is it so criminal if you get some "messagy" and "philosophy" in the middle of this panda china romp?
NO!
Is it such a blunder to take a funny comic and not always give him funny lines?
MAYBE
So then why am I feeling so shortchanged since I walked out of that theatre two days back????

I think the answer lies with the marketing strategist of Dreamworks SKG.

Let's face it - you can't compare apples and oranges. So Just because it was another animation film with animal speaking characters in a fantastical situation doesn’t mean it has to be funny every second like finding nemo or a shark's tale or Shrek!!

Fair enough. But my question is then why market an apple as an orange? The entire promotion strategy of this film shouted from roof tops that this is going to be one hilarious joint and maybe in parts it did do that for some people but for me i really had to stretch my imagination & belly to smirk on few witty dialogues.



The gags were over used done to death ones in this genre and again my biggest sore point is - why get preachy??

Overall great efforts by animators and visualizers but dumb down humour and weak script did it in for me.