the animation is beautiful, seriously, some of it looks real; the ground, grass, cherry blossoms, hairs on the characters ... the list goes on, truly an awesome job on the animation. the plot was great, if I had read a short plot of this movie I would have said 'Yes I want to see this' I Loved the first two movies so much that I contemplated getting a kung fu panda tattoo, I love China and everything about it; it's history, culture, guilin mountains, obviously cherry blossoms even fiction about China, one of my favorite books is 'bridge of birds' and I love james hong's voice, he's in the top 4; james earl jones, morgan freeman, jen taylor and james hong. but everything else about the movie I didn't like, the joke writers were juvenile and story writers were pedestrian. 3 out of 10.