Skadoosh!
It's a new word for a new day.
What a great film ... animation terrific ... sound and story wonderful.
Great family fare ... with a message for every child ...
Po, voiced by Jack Black, is a fat little panda whose father is a noodle soup expert, because his father was, and his father's father, and his dream for Po, to be a noodle soup expert ... and one day, he'll tell Po the "secret ingredient."
But Po dreams of being the Dragon Warrior who will save the land and bring peace to the people.
Quite by accident, Po ends up with the Furious Five who are being trained in the hope that the Master will choose one of them to be the Dragon Warrior and unroll the Scroll.
But Oogway, the Master, sees it differently and chooses Po.
And then the training begins (under the tutelage of Shifu - Dustin Hoffman) ... all terribly hard for a fat little panda ... the Furious Five don't want him; he doesn't fit; he doesn't belong. And finally the day when the scroll is his; it's unrolled, and there's a brief flash of soft light on Po's face, and then disappointment. The scroll is empty.
Returning home in defeat, Po's father tells him the "secret ingredient" - there is none ... only the faith that it's the best noodle soup in the world.
Suddenly there's a crisis in the land - the long-imprisoned enemy has escaped to claim the Scroll and become the Dragon Warrior.
Po learns in a flash of understanding: there is no secret ingredient, and the empty Scroll, slightly reflective, reveals the face of the one reading it. That's the message of the Scroll.
He's the One, after all.
Filled with lots of genuine laughs, visual wonders ... this is a great One! Hats off to Jack Black and the animators.
