Kung Fu Panda 4
I've always given DreamWorks Animation credit for being at least slightly more sophisticated than Illumination, which sounds like a half-hearted compliment - and perhaps it is.
But, if nothing else, DreamWorks deserves a bit of credit for shrewdly repositioning their popular franchise to feature more characters voiced by Asian-American actors - something that is long overdue, since this is a franchise that takes place in ancient China and is full of old-fashioned "eastern" motifs.
Among the newcomers to the franchise are Akwafina, Ke Huy Quan, Ronny Chieng and Viola Davis. The "Furious Five" characters have been put in storage for now, but they haven't been killed off, so they might return in future installments.
The story isn't anything particularly new or fresh - if anything, it borrows rather heavily from some story beats that were recently used in SMNWH and Secret Invasion - but at least it's snappy and full of knowing winks at the grown-ups in the audience. The running time is a brisk 85 minutes sans credits, which feels about right for this type of material.