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The animation is workmanlike, which is to say that the characters and settings are nicely rendered but there are no steps forward in technique. Perhaps we have reached a state where the lush detail of computer generated images is no longer eye-popping; it has become expected. If that's the case, Kung Fu Panda delivers what's expected. There is one interesting twist: the calvin klein shoe movie opens with a dream sequence that is crudely presented using two-dimensional, exaggerated caricatures, so when the dream ends and we enter the "real" world, the contrast is stark.