A young boy in San Francisco meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers he's the latest in a long line of guardians who protect an ancient phoenix from evildoers.
The Tiger's Apprentice is directed by Raman Hui who was the co director of Shrek The Third (2007) and a bunch of other Dreamworks animation short films such as Scared Shrekless (2010), Kung Fu Panda: Secrets Of The Fury Five and a few others. Joining Hui are Young Duk Jhun and Paul Watling.
The Tiger's Apprentice is about as bland as you can get with a terrible animated movie, outside of the voice cast such as Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Sandra Oh and Lucy Liu there is very little here. The premise is interesting enough but the execution is severely lacking, most of the characters are of course based off of the Chinese zodiac signs the problem here is outside of the Tiger guardian, the others get very little development. Most of the time they crack a few unfunny one liners or jokes and the movie moves on to the next scene.
Speaking of which the pacing is way too fast, the movie starts out with a nice and slow moment that's genuinely sweet, but the rest of the movie is way too fast when trying to tell it's story. Due to this we are given no character development from the characters or why we should care about their journey and goals, the animation is fine enough at times but most of the time it just does not look pleasing to look at. Which is a bit of a shame because the use of color is actually quite decent, with certain colors popping out that actually compliment a few scenes decently enough.
Overall The Tiger's Apprentice is very undercooked that needed so much more time in the oven especially when it comes to the writing, this is the very definition of streaming fodder that will be quickly forgotten about after watching.
The Tiger's Apprentice is available on Paramount+
3/10 D-
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