Die Legende des Tigers

Anyone who has watched Kung Fu Panda, of course could see a parallel that a guy unexpectedly got chosen as a guardian of a stone like PO got chosen as the dragon warrior and then began his journey of becoming worthy, here Tom the recently appointed guardian has just known of his power but the movie doesn't spend much time delving into showing him polishing his skills, it's just there, he knows how to use it. Whereas Shifu preparing Po to be a Dragon Warrior has to be one of the most heartwarming master student moment, here they missed the mark. The movie just started and wanted to reach the end at that very moment without any character development.

Chinese mythology and the zodiacs are such rich in content, but barely explored. As someone wrote, it was pretty dumb downed. And casting so many ppl but giving them just bare minimal talking scope. Wastage of Michelle Yeoh and Sandra Oh, but they were stellar. Henry Golding did come through, he started weak but caught up later on. But most impressing was Bowen as Sid the Rat, too good.

The animation is not the best we have seen for last few years like The Spider Verse or Nimona or Blue Eye Samurai etc but loved the Tiger and using of Eye of the Tiger was interesting. And the human form of the Dragon was pretty amazingly drawn along with the Rat. The movie does have good background music.

I just wish the director explored the zodiacs more, it wasn't a theatre release and heard it got a delayed release, so i don't understand the rush they had to put on the screenplay instead of developing a full fledged mythological story.