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Coming to select theatres April 17, 2026
Although HuHu isn’t quite like the Dragon Warrior Po from a certain DreamWorks franchise, Panda Plan 2 The Magical Tribe leans fully into that style of animated hilarity. In this Jackie Chan led film, figuring out who’s truly in the spotlight depends on who you love more: a computer-animated fuzzy wuzzy or the man himself. For me, the bear steals the show. A lot has been done to improve the mix of practical stand-ins (in the form of inert puppets) and digital work to bring the cuddly creature to life. Whether that’s enough to keep viewers watching depends on expectations.
And when a long-lost Indigenous group is discovered deep in the wilds of China, a team is unaware as they make their way through this realm to a sanctuary for this star of the show to now live in. From there, the film slips into something dreamlike. Like a modern fairy tale, events unfold with a hint of Alice in Wonderland, where reality and imagination blur. As people disappear and logic begins to slip, the viewer is left adrift as though in a midsummer’s night dream.
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