I'm fond of cute, furry, and chubby things. A good example of my fondness is a panda. Imagine my joy when I learned that Dreamworks is doing Kung Fu Panda. The poster alone made me excited to catch it in the theatre.

Jack Black is awesome as Po the panda. Right after the Dreamworks logo was shown and Po was narrating the legend of the dragon warrior, I knew that it was going to be a wonderful movie. It turned out I was right.

As usual, it had almost all the ingredients I'm looking for in a movie; action, comedy, and a moral lesson or two. Dreamworks has a way of reaching out to a wide variety of people's taste. I admire them for pleasing people from all walks of life.

Kung Fu Panda is up there with Shrek, and other Dreamworks animation because they know how to engage their audience. They know what the audience wants and what the audience needs. I mean, Kung Fu Panda is not just about the good animation and the hilarious scenes, but it also imparts certain values like believing in oneself and not to judge others based on their physical appearance.

If Dreamworks continues doing these kinds of film, I'll keep watching.

As an experiment in character animation, it is also very impressive. Horses are notoriously difficult to animate (which is why there had never been an animated horse movie before), but they come off here with poetic realism, as creatures of body and soul, with every movement an exercise in exhilarating beauty.

Its genre should be action. There's are uncountable scenes here -- stampedes, a train wreck, Spirit caught in river rapids and leaping through the air from atop a plateau - making it as exciting as any breathless Jacky-Chan action movies.

But the film also works emotionally, pulling us into its character's fate. It also displays all the little scenes that have made mankind fall in love with horses through the ages. The movie's beauty lies in the fact that is “clear”, not junked up with the Eddie Murphy character, flatulence jokes and subtle design to be a Broadway musical. It's that rare big Hollywood movie made from the heart.

It's classic animation wedded to modern technology - painted pictures that move in magical splendor. The movie's big action scenes, at times, make you forget you're even watching animation. There's an in-your-face sequence involving a runaway, crashing train that will make you squirm in your seat trying to get out of the way. It is basically an enchanting fairy tale made with simple, elegant conviction.

The animators have re-created equine movement and behavior with uncanny verisimilitude. It is nearly impossible to create horse behaviour with such truth. The movie is truly extraordinary.