The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

Director:

Christopher Cain

Writers (WGA):

John Wilcox (story) &
Steven Alldredge (story) ...

Release Date:

25 August 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

In the sweeping highlands of China, a boy begins a magical journey to save the life of a natural wonder.

Plot:

A young American boy visiting in China helps his zoologist father rescue a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers and save a panda reserve from officious bureaucrats.

Plot Keywords:

Panda | Poacher | China | Bureaucrat | Summer Vacation

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Stephen Lang	...	Michael Tyler
Ryan Slater	...	Ryan Tyler
Yi Ding	...	Ling
Wang Fei	...	Chu
Zhou Jian Zhong
Yao Er Ga
O Mi Jia Can
Cheu Gang
He Yu
Yeh Hui
Shou Wei
Isabella Hofmann	...	Beth (as Isabella Hoffman)
Brian Wagner	...	Johnny
Joanne Dorian
Doug Abrahams

Also Known As:

Little Panda
The Amazing Panda Rescue

MPAA:

Rated PG for adventure action and brief mild language.

Runtime:

Germany:84 min | UK:81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Portugal:M/6 | Netherlands:6 | Germany:6 (bw) | Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | UK:U | USA:PG (certificate #33795)

Filming Locations:

Chengdu, China

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: At the end Ryan is shown with the cub, while the camera cuts back twice to show the baby panda still in the jeep with Grandfather Chu.

Quotes:

Ryan Tyler: I've seen naked ladies before. I have cable TV.

Movie Connections:

References "American Gladiators" (1989)

Amazingly Hackneyed

Boy this was awful. Really really bad. I think the scene that best embodies how unrealistic and moronic this film truly is, would be the one in which the two main characters (who are only about 14) find themselves covered with leeches, and so they spontaneously take off all their clothes and jump in a river, and then look SURPRISED that they've done so. Like they didn't realize that this was a stupid idea WHILE they were doing it. Now we get to sit and watch as the movie awkwardly bumbles its way through the "I'm a guy, you're a girl, we're accidentally naked" schtick. Just shoot me with one of those Panda tranq darts and put me out of my misery. Granted, this film did its job of keeping the kids I was with interested, but unlike most Disney films and other modern flicks geared towards young children, it had nothing to keep the adults even remotely interested. I think the reason that this movie takes place in Hong Kong, is because it's actually a form of ancient Asian torture. Avoid this like the plague. And if you have to choose, take the plague.