Jack Black's Po is on the verge of retirement, which might not be a bad idea, given the lack of surprise and good jokes.
Po is on the verge of retirement, which might not be a bad idea, given the lack of surprise and good jokes.
When the original “Kung Fu Panda” was released in 2008, it was built around a great joke: that Po, incarnated by Jack Black at his Jack Blackiest, was a lazy hipster goofball who just wanted to sit around — yet somehow, through intense training , he became the unlikeliest of kung fu masters. Two sequels and three let’s-milk-the-franchise animated TV series later, Po is now an icon, a mascot, an action figure for every kid with the imagination of a superhero and the soul of a couch potato.
Fate arrives in the form of the Chameleon, an empress sorceress who can shape-shift into anything she wants. You’d think the movie would have a mad ball with this, but Mike Mitchell, who directed the inspired “Trolls,” works no such magic here. The Chameleon is cool to look at , and Viola Davis voices her with a dour aristocratic hauteur, but all the character does, really, is to call forth her guards and summon up past villains that Po has defeated.
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