DreamWorks presents an animated film directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne. Written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. Running time: 91 minutes. Rated PG (for kung-fu violence). Opening today at local theaters.

　　"Kung Fu Panda" is a story that almost tells itself in its title. It is so hard to imagine a big, fuzzy panda performing martial-arts encounters that you intuit (and you will be right) that the panda stars in an against-all-odds formula, which dooms him to succeed. For the panda's target audience, children and younger teens, that will be just fine, and the film presents his adventures in wonderfully drawn Cinemascope animation. (It will also be showing in some IMAX venues.)

　　The film stars a panda named Po (voice of Jack Black), who is so fat he can barely get out of bed. He works for his father, Mr. Ping (James Hong) in a noodle shop, which features Ping's legendary Secret Ingredient. How Ping, apparently a stork or other billed member of the avian family, fathered a panda is a mystery, not least to Po, but then the movie is filled with a wide variety of creatures who don't much seem to notice their differences.

　　They live in the beautiful Valley of Peace with an ancient temple towering overhead, up zillions of steps, which the pudgy Po can barely climb. But climb them he does, dragging a noodle wagon, because all the people of the valley have gathered up there to witness the choosing of the Dragon Warrior, who will engage the dreaded Tai Lung (Ian McShane) in kung-fu combat. Five contenders have been selected, the "Furious Five": Monkey (Jackie Chan), Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross). Tigress looks like she might be able to do some serious damage, but the others are less than impressive. Mantis in particular seems to weigh about an ounce, tops. All five have been trained (for nearly forever, I gather) by the wise Shifu, who with Dustin Hoffman's voice is one of the more dimensional characters in a story that doesn't give the others a lot of depth. Anyway, it's up to the temple master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), an ancient turtle, to make the final selection, and he chooses -- yes, he chooses the hapless and pudgy Po.

　　The story then becomes essentially a series of action sequences, somewhat undermined by the fact that the combatants seem unable to be hurt, even if they fall from dizzying heights and crack stones open with their heads. There's an extended combat with Tai Lung on a disintegrating suspension bridge (haven't we seen that before?), hand-to-hand-to-tail combat with Po and Tai Lung, and upstaging everything, an energetic competition over a single dumpling.

　　"Kung Fu Panda" is not one of the great recent animated films. The story is way too predictable, and truth to tell, Po himself didn't overwhelm me with his charisma. But 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.

　　翻译：

　　梦工厂提供了动画电影导演约翰斯蒂文森和马克奥斯本。乔纳森·亚伯和格伦伯格写的。运行时间：91分钟。PG级（功夫暴力）。今日在当地影院。

　　“功夫熊猫”，几乎是一个故事讲述自己在其标题。难以想象一个模糊熊猫表演武术遇到你intuit（你会是对的），熊猫恒星在一个幸存的公式，这注定他会成功。熊猫的目标受众、儿童和年轻的青少年来说，这将是很好，这部电影提出了他的冒险非常吸引宽银幕电影镜头动画。（它也将显示在某些IMAX场所。）

　　电影明星熊猫Po（杰克·布莱克的声音），他太胖了几乎不能起床。他为他的父亲工作，平先生（James香港）在一个面馆，这档节目的特点就是萍传奇的秘密成分。萍，显然鹳或其他鸟类家族的成员，生了一个熊猫是一个谜，尤其是阿宝，但电影充斥着各种各样的生物，似乎不太注意到他们之间的分歧。

　　他们住在和平的美丽的山谷，一个古老的寺庙的开销，无数的步骤，矮胖的Po几乎可以爬。但爬，拖着面条车，因为所有的山谷的人聚集在那里，见证了神龙大侠的选择，谁将可怕的大肺（伊恩·麦柯肖恩）参与功夫战斗。五竞争者被选择，“盖世五侠”：猴子（成龙），母老虎（安吉丽娜·朱莉），螳螂（塞斯·罗根），毒蛇（刘玉玲）和起重机（David交叉）。凶悍的女人看起来像她可以做一些严重损害，但其他人则低于令人印象深刻。螳螂特别是似乎重约一盎司。所有五个训练（近永远，我收集）的明智的师傅，他和达斯汀·霍夫曼的声音是一维的故事中的一个角色的不给别人很多的深度。不管怎样，由殿乌龟大师（Randall duke energy金），一个古老的海龟，做出最后的选择，他选择了——是的，他选择了倒霉的，矮胖的阿宝。

　　这个故事基本上就变成了一系列的动作序列，有些忽略了一个事实，战士似乎无法被伤害，即使他们从令人眩晕的高度，用头砸开石头。有一个扩展与大肺瓦解吊桥上（我们还没有见过呢？），阿宝和大肺，风头一切，一个充满活力的竞争在一个饺子。

　　“功夫熊猫”不是一个伟大的动画电影。这个故事太可预测，说句老实话，阿宝自己与他的魅力没有压倒我。但它是优雅，动作场面富含能量，足够短，年长的观众会原谅。给孩子们，当然，这些东西是半斤八两，他们又来了。