Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily.

Today is Wednesday, March 6, 2024.

On today's episode of the show,

we're going to talk a little bit about the Kung Fu Panda movies

and also present an interview with Kung Fu Panda 4

director Mike Mitchell. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slash Film. P All right, B.J. Full disclosure, I have not seen any of the Kung Fu Panda movies, but one of our

writers at Slash film got a chance to interview the director. He also had a chance to interview

Jack Black and Aquafino, which is a delightfully unhinged interview that hopefully people will get a chance to experience some of the video of on the slash film social channels.

But anyway, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about these movies and I know that you've seen the first three and I was just curious like what is your read on these? Like what do you think about these films?

So not only have I seen the first three Kung Fu Panda movies,

but I'm also pretty familiar with the multiple animated series that they've done.

There are three animated series based on the

Kung Fu Panda franchise. There's also I think like five or six short films

there's also a holiday special. There's a bunch special. Wow.

There's a bunch of video games.

There's also a theatrical play that I've not seen,

but I know that it exists.

Kung Fu Panda is a lot bigger than I think people realize. And I think it kind of gets slept on because it is a Dream Works animation

sort of franchise and Dream Works. I think they get an unfair bad rap compared to, I would say like the

Disney Pixar world. I think people write them off as like, oh they haven't been good

since Shrek and that's just fundamentally not true.

But the Kung Fu Panda movies are shockingly good.

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