Sunday 10 August 2008

Kung Fu Panda & Bucket List

Kung Fu Panda is an animated feature by Dreamworks Animation if you didn't already know, with a A-list cast of voices including Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu.
Simple enough plot, Panda wanna be kung-fu master ends up being the 'chosen one' to be the dragon warrior who will defeat the bad guy. Completed sucks at it, but through hard training and self belief becomes someone worthy to recieve the scroll of the dragon warrior, which will turn him into the being with immense unlimited power. Then you get a endfight.

Slapstick silly humor, nice for both children and adults alike. ^^

The Bucket List however is a little more of a serious film with the issue of dying, but completing a bucket list, essentially the list of things to do before you kick the bucket. Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholas in this movie are brilliant and I can see why they received Oscar nominations for it. There is bittersweet moments and humor in this movie and although the ending is as you would expect when dealing with two people who have terminal cancers, it isn't as sad as it may have been.

I quite liked it and found it to be a good movie to think through with what we have really done in some of our lives. I don't mean we have multiple lives but just the lives 'we' as a collective, share.

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