Dreamworks comes up with their latest rotund protagonist in Kung Fu Panda, not surprisingly voiced by one of the same people who were also in Shark Tale. Well, considering their biggest success is Shrek, go with what works in the formula right?As the creators themselves admitted, it's simplistic comedy, and doesn't work if you look at it too deeply, particularly in how the final conflict concluded.
Having just come from another "prophecy" laden "fantasy" in 10,000 BC, I didn't like that part, which, when coupled with the oft-repeated line "there are no accidents" means they were all just slaves to fate.
And given the suspicion that Dreamworks always seems to be following concepts first introduced by Pixar (A Bug's Life - Antz; Finding Nemo - Shark's Tale; Monsters Inc - Shrek; Ratatouille - Flushed Away; The Wild - Madagascar) this seems to be their Incredibles equivalent.
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