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Kung Fu Panda 3 Review

What I liked: This is really good for a third installment of a film that was planned as a stand alone. The first one was surprisingly funny; this one was much the same: surprising. I was impressed that they were still able to make me laugh. I was impressed that after making a cuddly panda the most powerful kungfu fighter in the animal world in the first movie, and the second, they were able to not only come up with increasingly strong villains to challenge the panda but also that they were able to have somewhere for the panda to grow as a character. There was some cool animation especially with some parts at the end with drawing with light. And the baby pandas are really cute. I liked the portion of Po trying to teach the Kung Fu class. I'm not sure that the panda army would be nearly as effective as the movie portrayed. Sometimes being you just  isn't  as good as being a ninja assassin, or Batman. But the only kids movie the would say that is one from Pixar so we can live with

Captain America 3 Review

What I liked: You might remember that one of my major problems with the last Avengers movie was that it wasn't funny. They tried to be funny and it didn't work. This time the funny is back. I laughed at the heroes, at their interactions. So well done, writing team. I really liked Spiderman. That's a sentence I never thought I would write. Spiderman was to Avengers 3 what Quicksilver was to X-Men 2: unexpectedly fun. One thing that helped Spiderman be successful in this movie was that since he was surrounded by grown-up heroes he was free to be a geeky teenager, something that is hard to do when you are the serious good guy in the film. I liked the characters who were carelessly introduced in the last Avengers film, they were coming into their own and seemed much more normal, you know in a flying, phasing, reality altering way. There were only two that I had to ask the person next to me who they were. They didn't know either (the person was clear on their own identity