Little White Lies magazine

Kung Fu Panda can proudly takes it place as the best DreamWorks Animation movie by a country mile. Despite featuring a laundry list of vocal talent, the powers that be seem to have finally, finally sussed it: it really doesn’t matter who’s doing the voices if you don’t have a script, a story and a character that feel like they really matter. That’s what Kung Fu Panda gets right – not by reverting to the pop culture blandishments of the empty headed Shrek franchise, but by investing their animation nous with some real heart. This story of an overweight panda who inadvertently becomes a kung fu champion of the people is warm, funny, tender and terrifically directed. It’s still Rolf Harris to Pixar’s Rembrandt, but even that is a step in the right direction for DreamWorks.