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I have always loved the first two Kung Fu panda films for there likable characters, simple yet charming story's and full of fun action scenes/comedy scenes.The third movie was good but it felt lacking in areas and it wasn't as good as the first two in my opinion. But the third film still had great action,animation and music to make it an enjoyable film overall.This TV show is a mixed bag by many people and while it's flawed in places, it can be pretty entertaining and it certainly has it's good episodes. The Show is funny and it has some great villains to(while others are meh at best). The animation is decent but since it's a TV show based of a film series i can kind of understand why it turned out the way it did. The music is decent and the action scenes are still fun to watch. The characters are a bit different and nowhere near as good as there film counterparts mainly Po who seems to be a bit more annoying then before. The voice acting is actually pretty solid and certain characters like viper and Mr ping sound the same (since they were voiced by the same actors). I would say check out this show if you are a hardcore Kung Fu panda fan and while it's characters are a little more unlikable then there film counter parts it's still worth having a look at.

It's the continuing adventures of Po, the Dragon Warrior. He and his friends, the Furious Five, protect the Valley of Peace under the guidance of Shifu from various villains.

This brings the cinematic cartoon onto the TV screen. There are a couple actors reprising their voice work. Mostly, it's new people recreating the memorable voices. The characters and the work is very similar to the cinematic franchise except there are no big 3D action. The stories are nice and the characters are fun. There is nothing offensive or terribly edgy. This is a fine family cartoon for the younger crowd and adults should be fine watching it with them.

This is a great show. Some of the adults writing the reviews should stop being so overly dramatic and critical...it's a kids show for goodness sake. Start thinking like a child and you too will love this cartoon. My family loves it because we don't have to deal with sexual innuendo or any other non kid like verbiage. This cartoon is VERY family friendly and I would recommend the series to any of my friends that have children from ages 6 and up. My nieces and nephews think Po and Master Shifu exhibit a friendship of love, caring, trust and respect. These are things my family enjoys to watch in a show and this is just an all round fun show and we love it.

The "Kung Fu Panda" movies are all amazing (especially the second movie). And now, here we got the TV series. "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness". The TV series tells the story of Po and the Five against evil. Well, i gotta say the TV series didn't looked as great as the movies. The animation isn't like "super-duper good", it's alright, but i kinda liked the animation they used in the movies better. Although, "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness" ain't that bad of a TV show. The story is kinda lacking with some weird plot holes, but i say it's okay. In fact, i saw an episode of the TV show and i really enjoyed it. It still got the great sense of humor and the awesome fight scenes just like in the movies. I don't know what other people think about it, but i really liked the TV show. If you're a big fan of the "Kung Fu Panda" movies, then you'll might like this one too

8/10

Well, I'm actually surprised with this show. It's definitely not as good as 2 films.

Animation is worse than in the movies, but not that bad. My only remark is that they sometimes use the same model for different characters, only changing the color of the robes. But even Disney is doing that. TV series cant spend as much money as for the movies. For example Aladdin TV series. Every male child looked like a miniature Aladdin, with same hairstyle.

Voice acting is GREAT. Voice actors are so convincing (except Tigress), they sound like their movie counterpart, especially Mick Wingert as Jack Black. And John DiMaggio and Richardson are great as Fung and Temutai.

Story is OK, with one or two plot holes.

New characters are good. Maybe little clichéd, but they're not annoying (for example "Aladdin" had Abyss Mall the worst cartoon character in history!!!). Some of the villains are even great, like Junjie and Temutai.

Overall, the show is decent. Nothing special, but if you liked Kung Fu Panda, you're like this too.

The third series has the best episodes; I record ANY episode in DVD when sender put 'em on air, the wau I can watch 'em again and again instead of cycling the whole saga according to the local TV network. Even though graphics leaks of details in comparison of the movies, each overview is structured flawless, especially the dual-parts episodes e.g. "Enter The Dragon". Vocal actors in original version are worth hearing. Each episode can teach something that we can notice in the others, like the referrals to past episodes or something like that when we're watching a single episodio, not like the soap operas having sequels. Publishing of all Kung phu panda saga is quite slow but I understand the work behind the animation scenes and character martial movements and arts. So I give an excellent vote to this television program !

firstly. i have watched season 1 and 2 of it - and it was not boring; so the show is not making too many mistakes.

But i caught myself getting annoyed at the main character ( Po ) - and started liking the villains much much more. ... Which should be a problem for such a show.

My main criticisms:

• Po is unlikable. Not quirky but "good at heart" as in the movies ( KFP2 ) but much MUCH more annoying - the Furious Five seem to be a nothing but single-liner-punching-bags ... extremely disappointing. - almost no character ( good or bad ) has any significant development. They mess up one episode to learn from those mistakes - just to mess up a few episodes later again - for the exact same reason. - inconsistent continuity - you never really get a real idea of the peace valley, its inhabitants or the jade palace dwellers. in short - the village and the valley appear to be very very empty, especially compared to KFP1&2 - but that is probably due to the TV sized budget - the show gives a rather bad example for kids. While it hints at the other aspects of Kung Fu other than beating each other up - it never shows it. Every problem seems to be solved by beating others up - usually followed by Po admitting the truth to a mistake. ( not always but so often that it gets old ) - few consequences for the violence shown - although it is a kids show it would be nice sometimes to show that getting beat up actually hurts.

I cannot help but compare it to 2 other animated shows i consider kind of similar in terms of story-arc ( mêlée combat focused "chosen one" shows )

• Avatar, the last airbender - which in a brief summary does almost everything right - Xiaolin Showdown - which has a better continuity, character development and arc ( it does get weaker after season 2 though )

on the plus side though....

• the visuals are nice. not as great as the movies of course, but still nice. the animation is well done, the movements are well done and do not feel too repetitive - it captures the feeling of the movies well. - it has some funny villains - the story and characters get "slightly" better after mid season 2 ( very slightly - and occasionally )

all in all a 6/10 from me - above average and no waste of time, but by no means as enticing as my current standard "Avatar, the last airbender" ( which does not quite include Korra )

The one thing I'll always remember from this show is the fight scenes. They were simply amazing. Easily among the best fights I've ever seen. And they don't carry the show either. Every episode I saw had good jokes and interesting stories. The Furious Five get a lot of development, though I'll admit it was mostly just Monkey or Tigress. And I always loved Po. He was funny and really brought life into the show.

Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness is very exciting and has lots of action and fights. It is quite cringy and unrealistic at times but it is very fun and family friendly. The animation is quite poor and I think they could of done a better job on that. Due to the poor animation the animal's look as if they do not have fur and at times it looks like animation from a video game. However, it is very exciting and mainly seems canon to the films. At the start of mostly every episode Po does something he is not meant to and gets in trouble but in the end everything works out fine which I find quite cringy but it is a kid's TV show. So yes very fun and action-packed and the fight scenes are also fairly good so overall I think this is a good TV show. I would definitely recommend it to you and your family.

This show is mediocre at best and downright awful at worst. I'm a Kung Fu Panda movie fan and I don't understand what other people see in it. The writing is bland and tries way too hard to be funny when most of the time it's just painful, and every episode has at least half a dozen major plot holes. The characters' personalities were all right in the first few episodes, but now they're completely off from the characters in the movies, and not in a good way; all the so-called protagonists are complete jerks that no one in their right mind would want to side with. The villains and guest characters are overdone and clichéd, not to mention very badly designed and modeled. The animation is very poor quality; all the backgrounds are monochromatic and hemmed-in, every character in the background is a repeat model (oftentimes, they don't even bother to change the character's clothing color) and the simplified modeling and animation of our main characters is clunky and uninspired. And nothing in the universe of the show is consistent with what was already established in the canon of the movies. Overall, it's clear to me that little to no effort was put into Legends of Awesomeness at all; it was obviously conceived by studio executives looking to make a quick buck and expand the popularity of their franchise between movies. If all you want to see is Po and the Furious Five beating up bad guys, you'll probably like it just fine. But if you wanted to see the elaborate world of the movies recreated and expanded upon, you'll be sadly disappointed by this lazy, lazy show.

The kung fu panda movies are awesome. The first two are fantastic and the third while very good doesn't come close to the first two. The TV series imo was entertaining, funny, action packed, had some cool bad guys like ke-pa, solid music that fit the situations,animation while inferior looks pretty decent for a TV series based on a film series (lilo and stitch the series had worse animation then the first Lilo and stitch film yet no one seems to bash that). The characters are still expressive in emotions and I like how they have the same character designs in the films. The show does have it's really fun and funny episodes also such as enter the dragon which is an hour episode and is awesome to watch. The voice acting sound's really good a lot of the time and it has fun character intreations, the show does have it's not so good episodes and it's characterzation can be of sometimes like po being a bit more bad mannered at times tho most of time he wasn't that bad in the show but it is noticeable if you watched the films (I pefer his character in the movies tho, The furious five and shifu are like this but po is the most noticeable one). The writing is mostly well done with a few hiccups here and there. The theme song is really good also. Kung fu panda LOA gets a bad rep from fans and I can see wwhy but as someone who loves the films i actually was entertained by this. It's funny, cheesy( good kind of cheesy) cute, and has it's really cool moments. I think it's great and i would go into it with an open mind with thinking it's a kids show, you'll like it more if you do that.

I become interested to this series after i watched the fourth movie which i don't really like. So what's make this series weak?

First this series (i think isn't canon) considering how it has many new powerful spell and magic, new lore that make no sense, and how they make the character have their personality as how the director like it, like they actually changing from one to another episode.

Second this series doesn't have a major continues story from one to another episode. I mean there are some story that progress but even in the end they give new villain instead, i mean they could make the last 10 episodes about Po sweep out the original villain in this series or get rid of them forever or such, the point is there are no real story between episodes it's just one new story about how they fight a villain and so on and so on.

Third they make some characters dirty, like there are an episode of furious five quitting or another where Shifu being such a jerk and unwise like how he is, and most importantly how Po being a complete brain dead like this series came out between the first and the second, while actually it's timeline after the second and before the third where Po should already get the inner peace and know kung fu better.

Some other things that i don't really like but not that much of a problem like the episodes doesn't contain an episode that only focus to one other character beside Po, at least that character get more screen time than Po. The animation and choreography obviously not as good as the movies but it is understandable.

I give it 7 because well it's enjoyable and i oftenly laughing watching this series. Despite all that weak points i think at the end one thing that matter the most is "are you enjoying it?", and yes i enjoyed it. Just take my brain of and watch this series with Po doing the most ridiculous thing imaginable. And of course furious five is here even though without their og voice actor.

Since it's a tv series, I can understand it but its a bit to childish. Like they made it only for pre Teenagers. But still I would suggest to watch it.

This great show looks dumb. But that is okay because its a great show made for children.

If you were expecting the classic KFP then you should have expected something else because this show is nothing like the movies. This show is a wasted opportunity to produce the same dimwitted stories and characters. But the show is great.

It still has some elements of the classic films, but this show upon watch it feels dumb. The show looks like a soft reboot to go from mature to dumb. That's great though. We need shows like KFPLOA. People watched it, therefore these shows are needed.

Overall. A dumb show. But it's great.

The fact that the voice actors are not from the original movie is very off-putting. Other than that, good show.

Severely lacking in animation quality and humour/comedy. Disappointing to say the least.

Having recently caught up and finished what I left unfinished, I have to say, Legends of Awesomeness ended up as quite the fun journey. Even in 2022, it's an enjoyable laid-back watch. Also a nice change of pace from our cruddy world of today.

To summarize the series, you'll get the entirety of Kung Fu Panda in: Two movies, Legends of Awesomeness, A third movie, Paws of Destiny.

Complete with shorts and specials in-between that are simply stories that are told.

It was a long running show with 3 seasons, so you can expect it to be a bit messy with some hits and misses, but it really is Po as Shifu's student, and pairs nicely with the movies. After all, you expect things to be life-threatening every day? This is the slice of life and misadventures Po and the people around him go through. Given the target demographic, some things can be really... well, extremely... massively? Immensely cringe-worthy to hear.

While not everything about it has aged well, the show has aged well enough. Still completely enjoyable.

Even so, there's some good jokes around. Though when it first came out, it was somewhat ground-breaking in being a cartoon based off of a movie, with endless comparisons made for no reason. Graphic fidelity isn't everything, especially when there's worse. I guarantee you the people who made those comparisons have never seen a 2004 3D cartoon. There's one involving the Arthurian legend and dragons that's very, very hard to look at.

Really, it's about the emotions, the heart, and soul. Kung Fu Panda has it all. The first season's somewhat rough, but half-way through it, the voice actors are in-sync with the characters. You can't really say they're different from their movie counterpart that much if you consider you only spent 2 hours with them. It's a different side of a person, or rather, it's when people aren't in a state of constant peril.

Even in 2022, the legend remains awesome.

Overall I think that the show has some strong points and weak points. The show's writing is still pretty good, although the comedy is essentially just glorified slapstick and or convenient comedic timing which does get tiring pretty fast. The characters feel mostly the same except for tigress who, in the movies, was an iron woman, but in the show she is turned into just another goofy companion of Po's which does make the characters feel a bit homogeneous at times. Now the really bad. So obviously this show has some redeeming quality else I wouldn't have rated it 7 out of 10. But there are a lot of glaring issues. One is the animation. All I have to say is Jesus. It looks like they went into sfm and slapped some low res kung fu panda models in and got to work. The models look like smooth clay and they move in individual frames rather than fluidly. I get it tho, it's supposed to be a spinoff show for kids, it's not supposed to be stunning by any means but just contrast this with the penguins of Madagascar another nick show expanding on a DreamWorks movie series. The animation is just better. Better lighting, better movement, better models, and more creative, good looking locations. Looking at Penguins of Madagascar really makes KFP Legends of Awesomeness look very sloppy and poorly done. A second issue is the voice acting. Now the voice acting is not bad by any means. I mean most of the actors have really stellar impressions of the characters. IMPRESSIONS. The voices are a little off so it feels more like your listening to people doing impressions of the character rather than playing the character. In conclusion, the show is funny enough and written well but the animations and voice acting make it seem like some parallel universe where all the stuff is the same but just a little bit off which gave the show a very unsettling feel. I honestly think this show would have been a 10/10 had they had the original voice actors and switched it to the 2d animation style they use in other specials like secrets of the masters. Then they could actually make certain shots look good and maybe make the animation look less like individual pictures of clay strung together. Overall 7/10

If you're a fan of the movies which are all very excellent this is nothing like the movies because the movies all had dark themes, great emotions, and an amazing voice cast and strong messages which made the first 2 a cult classic with the 3rd one lagging behind but still being fantastic but however Legends of awesomeness does have the same action as the films, but they are more loosely choreographed and it isn't as emotionally charged and powerful like the movies but on it's own yeah its great because it does have great messages, good action and a decent plot and story to support it. I thought some episodes were completely lame and stupid but there are ones that are really exciting and entertaining

One thing I have to say is, everyone except Viper and Ping all have different voices which I really didn't get used to for a little while but the voice acting is great nontheless.

My 3 boys (8, 5 and 2) absolutely love this show. And I can definitely say I love it as much, maybe even more. My husband makes fun of me because I crack up at the jokes but it's just too funny. Perfect family show because it doesn't rely on adult jokes and innuendo to make it tolerable for adults to sit though, it is funny enough without that.