Kung Fu Panda

It's holiday time again, and that means getting away from work and pampering the kids. So I took the younger one to see Kung Fu Panda.

Now even at 10 years old, he's understood that such films are better in English with subtitles, not dubbed into Portuguese. So we went to Rio Sul in Seixal, bought our tickets and popcorn and sat in the cinema - first to arrive! 10 minutes later the doors clicked shut and the film started, with just the two of us in a 100 seat theatre! I don't know how the cinema makes money in these circumstances, but we were very comfortable.

As for the film, it's good for 10 year-olds, but has little to keep an adult's attention. The story line is weak, even compared with other recent Disney efforts, the characters rather shallow, and the action and comedy cannot make up for this shortfall. That said, there is action, and comedy, especially in the training sequences, where Panda takes on the master in a fight to get food.

Overall, hardly a Disney masterpiece, barely worth seeing unless you really have nothing better to do with holidaying kids.