2/10
The least bad of the Kung Fu Panda "rip-offs" but still very bad
21 July 2014
The other two being The Little Panda Fighter(from Video Brinquedo) and Chop Kick Panda. The worst of the three is The Little Panda Fighter, which is one of "the Asylum of animation"'s worst and among the worst animated movies of all time. Chop Kick Panda is marginally better in the visuals and humour departments but is still not too good in those areas and shares a lot of the same problems that made The Little Panda Fighter as bad as it was. Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit is not as blatant a rip-off as the other two(Chop Kick Panda in places is almost carbon copy) and has a decent soundtrack and Michael Clarke Duncan who tries his best, but to be perfectly honest he did deserve better material, redeeming it somewhat. But to say that it is the least bad of the three is not really a compliment because it is still very bad and is infinitely inferior to Kung Fu Panda, which was actually good and was entertaining. The animation has a lot of blocky character designs, lifeless colours and backgrounds that are severely lacking in detail and care. The slightly good news though is that it's not as bad as the animation in The Little Panda Fighter(if you've seen Ratatoing the animation's in that is pretty much the same quality). The jokes and dialogue are rather childish and lame with little that will appeal to kids and adults, but Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit deserves a little credit for having a better idea of what its target audience is than the other two did. The story is not involving at all, the lack of originality I can forgive, but having a plot so slight that is stretched out so much over the running time causing many scenes to drag badly is not forgivable. The lack of interesting or likable characters is noticeable too, as is with the exception of Duncan the bad voice acting. Especially Jon Heder who constantly sounds bored, if he was trying to imitate somebody it certainly back-fired because this was severely phoned-in stuff. Rebecca Black is annoying and out of place as well. To conclude, very bad but there is worse. 2/10 Bethany Cox
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