8. Kung Fu Panda 3
If there's one Hollywood trope that is more irritating than the infernal chosen one (seriously, it feels like every series, from Spider-Man to Star Wars is about pre-destined heroes) it's franchises forgetting what their original point was. Over the course of four Pirates Of The Caribbean films Captain Jack Sparrow went from being a drunken mess who got lucky to actually being a good pirate. And not through anything as healthy as a character arc either; the writers just changed him because reasons. This is a similar issue that Kung Fu Panda 3 faces. The first film treated itself as serious as a film called Kung Fu Panda should, serving up that chosen one cliché in a marginally subversive, but still resonant manner. Po, voiced by Jack Black, is the last person you'd expect to actually be a kung fu master, but he's not Neo or Anakin; he's a Panda who works for his noodle-chef father. A father who is a goose. It's silly, but it works. In an attempt to add poignancy the sequel addressed the issue of adoption and ended with the reveal that Po's panda father is alive and well, setting up a more serious third installment. Even if the film, which is currently set to open a week after Star Wars Episode VII, doesn't lean on what it means to be a Panda, there's still a distancing from the silliness that made the series work in the first place.