Kung Fu Panda 4 4K 2024 2160p WEB-DL

Panda Po leaves the Valley of Peace and goes to the big city. There he encounters the powerful villain Chameleon, who can summon enemies from the past.

Kung Fu Panda 4 4K Review
There comes a time in every Dragon Warrior's life when he must pass on the title to an heir, choosing one from among the best kung fu masters. Panda Po is not at all ready to say goodbye to the life of the hero of the Valley of Peace, nor does he feel that any of the candidates would be a good fit for the role of successor. Po manages to escape the rebuke of his mentor Shifu thanks to the strange news of an attack on the iron mines by longtime enemy Tai Lung, who was declared dead years ago. Fox Zhen, who has just been caught stealing artifacts from the Jade Palace, explains to Po that Tai Lung has appeared in the guise of the sorceress, Chameleoness, mistress of Juniper City. The Dragon Warrior sets out to settle matters with the villainess and takes Zhen as his guide, promising that for her help he will free her from prison.

In recent years, the movie industry has seen several non-binding sequels to animated franchises: flops like "Megamozg vs. the Syndicate of Doom," made with heart like " Escape from the Chicken Coop 2," and even the groundbreaking "Pussin Boots: The Last Wish." What distinguishes an outstanding sequel from a mediocre one is its ability to adapt to modern reality. "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" showed that cinema audiences need a faster editing pace, bright colors and adult themes that won't scare off family audiences, but rather attract them. Despite this, DreamWorks Animation, the studio that released the animated films about a cat with a saber and a fighting panda, showed a radically different approach to the projects. While with one she took a risk and hit the target, with the other she followed a trampled path and came to nothing.

The "Kung Fu Panda" franchise is outdated after all: in the early 2000s, the story of a full and lumbering animal was a less aggressive protest than "Shrek," stating the same message about fighting stereotypes and believing in yourself. The projects have similar ideas, but the difference between the development of the universes is huge. The "Shrek" films centered around the psychological metamorphosis of the protagonist going through the standard periods of male adulthood (love, marriage, childbirth and crisis), while the Poe line has a different dynamic. In the first part, the character's formation took place, while the two subsequent parts(2011 and 2016 ) opened the veil of secrets of the past: the panda found out who his real parents were and finally met his kin. Poe's image did not require or allow for further development, but the producers still dared and went the way of dying franchises.

In "Top Gun: Maverick," "No Time to Die," and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," the outmoded characters are looking for an heir, that is, the producers' hope that they will be able to make money from the same material again. The flaw in the expectations lies in the outdated material that is not suitable for today's movie-going public. The "Kung Fu Panda" franchise is based on the aesthetics of the trendy Asian martial arts action films of the 1990s and 2000s: since then, a whole generation has grown up for whom the names of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan mean almost nothing. Therefore, the only thing that could save "Kung Fu Panda 4" from failure is a new interpretation of the plot about the search for a protégé, which the universe of "Shrek" realized back in 2007.

The journey of Po and the thief Zhen is made according to the laws of the buddy-movie genre: opposite characters (a chubby goody-goody and a skittish rogue) learn from each other and cope with difficulties in different ways. On the way to Chameleonsha's castle, Po explains that living by the laws of the streets, as taught to Zhen, who grew up in the slums, is not necessary. The line of re-educating bad guys was in the "Shrek" threequel and existed organically within the context of the story of the good ogre. The "Kung Fu Panda" franchise doesn't have an overall idea that the writers develop from part to part, so they put thoughts into the quadricquel that we shouldn't be intimidated by the natural process of replacing the old with the new and exploiting the past. Such reasoning is strange to hear from a movie that is the same stale product pretending to be relevant and modern. I would like to see behind the image of Chameleonsha, reincarnated as kung fu masters, criticism of the movie industry, only in "Kung Fu Panda 4" there is no rebellious spirit and sarcasm of the first "Shrek", which showed the middle finger to the canons of Disney studio. Without them, a movie about the problem of endless copying turned into the same copy, which realizes the meaninglessness of its existence, but does nothing about it.