Masterful. I entered the theatre expecting your run-of-the-mill cutsie science documentary, but instead I was delighted to find that, alongside a first-rate plot and some amazing visuals, "Pandas," features one of the greatest performances of the last decade. Kristen Bell's turn as Qian Qian the Panda demonstrates an actress honing her art, and transforming into a master of her craft. The nuances of Bell's performance amount to a fixating and often breath-taking theatregoing experience. The role poses challenges. But any challenge posed, Kristen overcomes. Whether she has to eat pounds of bamboo, or get stuck in a tree after an injury to her paws, the grip never slips. Her panda-esque charms delight the audience without fail. This is a performance that I believe no other actress could convincely deliver, (no, not even Meryl Streep.) I hope to see Kristen win an Oscar this year, and deserve recognition from an industry that is only now discovering her true potential. See "Pandas," and brace for the greatest Panda-based performance of all time.

The IMAX documentary "Pandas" is made for children. Half of it is pandas frolicking, the other half is zoologists from the US and China talking about how they're trying to stop the pandas from going extinct and have been introducing captivity-raised pandas into the wild.

Nothing special, but it does give one an idea of how the only surviving members of the genus Ailuropoda live.

A really cute documentary about an effort to take pandas born in captivity and attempt to release them into the wild! The babies melted our hearts! I was especially taken with the piece that was set to ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man"! Adorable!

There was one moment of worry with our children when Chen Chen's "beacon" stops moving. A little tense. But, it is a G rated movie, so...

Short, sweet, and adorable!