After seeing the domestic box office results of " Kung Fu Panda 4" reaching over 100 million on the first day, I was indifferent!
is great! We have added bricks and tiles to "Kung Fu Panda 5" which will be launched at an unknown time in the future!
Anyone who pays a little attention to the trend of the domestic film market in recent years can clearly see that Hollywood blockbusters are almost completely outnumbered by local films, especially commercial popcorn movies, no matter how luxurious the special effects scenes are. It is difficult to please the domestic audience again.
The only Hollywood blockbusters that can survive in China are IP series movies that are very popular with domestic audiences, such as "Mission: Impossible"; the other is American-style movies with "strong selling points", such as " Oppenheimer" 》etc.
And "Kung Fu Panda" is almost compatible with the above two popular movie characteristics, so before this series has overturned, I have predicted that "Kung Fu Panda 4", which will be fought again in 8 years, will not have a box office. Difference.
This is also true. On the second day after the release of "Panda 4", the cumulative box office of the film was already 157 million+, which was the same as the box office of "Panda 1" on its opening day, which was better than expected.
is at least much better than " Dune 2 ", which was launched on March 8 and currently has a total box office of 300 million. However, "Panda 4" is far inferior to "Dune 2" in terms of reputation. It currently ranks at the top of the "Kung Fu Panda" series. At the bottom level, there is no trace of the more connotative oriental expressions found in the three previous films.
And from 2008's "Panda 1" to 2016's "Panda 3", it is obvious that there are small hints at the end of each film. It can be seen that the original "Kung Fu Panda" universe is controlled between the three films, and "DreamWorks" "Usual operational fit.
Unfortunately, Hollywood blockbusters have been too bleak in the domestic market in recent years, and it is almost impossible to find a tenable story theme. The "big pie" of the Chinese-language film market has obviously tended towards film stories with Chinese plots in recent years.
Hollywood, which knows the reason, has also made compromises. When they produce a movie that includes the Chinese market, the film will deliberately avoid offending Chinese audiences. For example, Paramount's "Top Gun 2" will Sensitive elements related to Taiwan issues were removed from Cruise's flight jacket, but the effect was minimal.
The "Kung Fu Panda" series is currently the IP story closest to China's "DreamWorks" in terms of culture. The characters are set with oriental favorability and have strong selling points for domestic movies. You say "DreamWorks" can still do it without doing it. What?
Returning to "Kung Fu Panda 4" itself, we cannot say it is a bad movie, because "DreamWorks" is a mature film company, and the movie is familiar with IP operations. As long as they don't act evil, it won't be much different.
The fourth story unfolds when A Bao is looking for a successor. The wise master must have seen the impetuous state of A Bao's heart, so he asked him to find a successor and then practice indifferently to fame and wealth.
During the audition, the new character Fox was spotted by Abao. He came to Peace Valley with the mission of backstabbing. The fierce tiger was not optimistic about Fox out of intuition, but Abao believed in him very much.
During this period, many kung fu masters disappeared in the Peace Valley, which led to the villain of the fourth season, the Phantom Queen. She is obviously more ambitious. Not only does she have eyes and ears everywhere, but in the distant Juniper City, the Phantom Demon Queen is also planning a big plan to rule the world.
Po walked out of the Peace Valley with the fox and came to Juniper City, a dangerous city surrounded by water on three sides. This big city is completely different from the Peace Valley where Po was born. It is noisy everywhere, thieves and thieves are rampant, and the Demon Queen's army is spread out in every corner of the city, and there is danger everywhere.
At first, the Demon Queen tempted Po to join her church, but although Po was greedy and lazy, he was still mentally determined. The two turned against each other and started fighting immediately. As a result, due to the fox's betrayal, Po was trapped in prison and even more The phantom created by the Demon Queen breaks through the heart.
In the end, the fox's conscience found out, and he teamed up with the people of Peace Valley to rescue Abao in Juniper City, and brought out the demon queen's true form, becoming an ugly chameleon and finally collapsed and died.
The entire story of "Panda 4" is outdated and cannot stand the test. It has grown up passionately with the first season; the search for a way out in the second season; where will the third season go? It is completely different. It does not have an outstanding story theme. It uses water-filled fighting scenes and stitched fox characters to find market selling points.
Especially the setting of the new character Fox, my intuitive feeling is that there is a sense of being in "Zootopia" and "Kung Fu Panda". It feels that "Panda 4" is no longer focused on the Eastern core. Even if it is a movie story with a superficial oriental core.
Coupled with the fact that the character settings are too stylized, even with mature special effects and action design, it is an undisputed fact that the quality of "Panda 4" has declined.
The reason why "Panda 4" can still support the box office at present is that the first three films have a solid foundation. In addition, "Kung Fu Panda" has a very strong pro-China element. It is not a surprise to return to this season, but that's it. .
The absolute decline in word-of-mouth is a wake-up call for "Panda 5", which is currently said to be in preparation. Panda Po is not a panacea, and it is obviously not advisable to tell a movie story that is hard to tell.
's Douban score of 6.6 is the lowest score in the series, which is just relying on the "Chinese style" to attract a wave of viewers.
Finally, I would like to remind "DreamWorks" to take a closer look at what "the dog's tail continues to mink" means, and to protect the "Kung Fu Panda" universe, isn't it good?
