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.
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.