Panda Plan

Bad CG. Bad writing. Bad... everything. A high budget, low effort project designed to appeal to those with little to no expectations.

Barely even scraps by as a silly ride for children with gags and jokes that very rarely lands on target.

And our poor little panda. A poor excuse of a bundle of pixels, which would look great and adorable on its own, but it is cheaply shoved it into scenes, as if it was another unwelcomed Chinese actress there to appeal to impressionable men for the mainland.

Come to think of it, this whole project stinks of someone who had money hell bent on making a movie because he had a genius idea... that nobody believed in.

Upside? Seems like they had fun making the movie.

Good for them.

Jacky may look old but he still good in action, the stories were light, easy to understand and easly forgotten too. But that's ok. A lots of comedy, a bit silly but we were very entertained, my 8 year old daughter really enjoyed it until the movie end. There were many scenes that made everyone laughed. Maybe some people will dissapointed because the panda cub was not real, it created by cgi. Trust me it still cute and looks real tho. No real pandas were harmed during filming.

There aren't many family movie released these days so im really happy about this one. Thats it! I dont know what else to say, i just want to reached the minimum character limit lol.

International movie superstar Jackie Chan is all tired from filming his new movie and wants a worthy break. The non-filmy activities doesn't excite him much until he is convinced to adopt a baby panda at the Noah zoo. Unknown to him and others, the baby panda's kidnapping is planned and the deal is made with a group of mercenaries. When they make the move to kidnap the baby panda, Jackie Chan has to step up and do what he does best on screen to save the baby panda.

What the film gets somewhat right are the action sequences which are not entirely fun but atleast not outright bad. It's fun to see Jackie Chan doing those stuff for the millionth time and he stays committed. Setting aside the meta references, the film fails in it's attempt to strictly aim at the kids and the stale jokes don't appeal to anybody irrespective of the age. The supporting characters remain irrelevant and overact at cue which would have been okay for the 80s or 90s but not now. I am not being lenient is because after a long time I watched an English dubbed version and I was not happy with the dubbing at all. Having said that, I doubt I would have enjoyed this better in it's original language either.

Whoever casted all the russian actors in the movie should never do any casting ever in his life. Especially the russian actor that played the role of the father of the child. The acting is so bad. Its only jackie chan doing mini stunts and thats it. Not worth going to the cinema for this movie.

Whoever casted all the russian actors in the movie should never do any casting ever in his life. Especially the russian actor that played the role of the father of the child. The acting is so bad. Its only jackie chan doing mini stunts and thats it. Not worth going to the cinema for this movie. Not at al.

More often than not,Jackie Chan movies are always entertaining as most of his films are made in a very light hearted fashion and Jackie always has a very sunny attitude alongwith him executing some excellent stunts. To a certain extent this was the same with this movie,although this Chinese film's quality was brought down tremendously by the extremely terrible acting by the junior cast who were extremely amateurish and childish in every way. The other huge minus point was the horribly horrible translation from Chinese to English resulting in a very cheesy output.

All in all it's worth watching just once,only because of Jackie Chan.

5/10.