“Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe” Poster
Director: Derek Hui
Cast: Jackie Chan, Ma Li, Qiao Shan, Rongguang Yu, Yinglu Wang, Tian Qiu, Yang Yu
Running Time: 100 min.
By Paul Bramhall
In 2024 Jackie Chan hit a career low (one which is only rivalled by Kung Fu Yoga) with Panda Plan, a movie which – in the words of my own review from the time – was a “charmless affair devoid of any purpose or entertainment value”. With its cheap one location setting, misguided decision to have Jackie Chan play himself, and a CGI rhino milking scene, it was the kind of movie that I’ve been doing my best to forget about ever since I watched it. Whatever success I achieved in clearing the memory banks though has unfortunately been undone less than 2 years later, when the same movie received a sequel that I’m sure precisely zero people were asking for. So it is, in 2026 cinema screens were graced with Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe.
Did I watch it? Of course. Like a moth to the flame, there are few stars remaining in the world of cinema who demand such fan loyalty as Jackie Chan, a fact which is proven through my act of willingly sitting through PP:TMT (as I’ll refer to it from here on in) from start to finish. What’s most surprising though is that I came away from the experience with a feeling Continue reading
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