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[Kung Fu Panda - Trailer] Watch the trailer for "Kung Fu Panda" featuring Jack Black (voice), Dustin Hoffman (voice) and Mark Osborne (director)
New York Times, 06/06/2008, "At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength...KUNG FU PANDA is high concept with a heart....Visually arresting."
Los Angeles Times, 06/06/2008, "[I]t looks fantastic....[The filmmakers] have inserted vast, moody, misty landscapes, fanciful interiors and traditional Chinese colors to give the movie an epic, expansive, ancient quality that's a real pleasure to inhabit."
Entertainment Weekly, 06/13/2008, p.49, "[T]he fight scenes, which are the heart of the film, are lickety-split mad fun..." -- Grade: A-
Sight and Sound, 08/01/2008, p.68, "[H]ighly entertaining....Full of verve, visual panache and sock-it-to-you action scenes."
Premiere, 06/05/2008, "The animation is beautiful, from the ethereal Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom to the elegant Jade Palace and its Moon Pool."
Empire, 08/01/2008, p.62, 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a level of visual beauty here that's a notch above anything DreamWorks has attempted before..."
Total Film, 12/01/2008, p.135, 3 stars out of 5 -- "Armed with a sublimely silly concept and an A-list voice cast....This is energetic, exciting and consistently funny..."
Distributor Note
Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po works in his family's noodle shop while daydreaming about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study alongside his idols-the legendary fighters Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey-under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu hero into reality? Po puts his heart and his girth into the task, and ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.
Source - Paramount Home Entertainment
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 DISC 1 - KUNG FU PANDA Audio: Surround 5.1 - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Surround 2.0 - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Subtitles - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Picture-in-Picture Commentary Track - Fillmakers Featurettes - 1. "Meet The Cast" 2. "The Tech of Kung Fu Panda" 3. "The Sounds Of Kung Fu Panda" 4. "KFP Sound Machine" 5. "Learn the Panda Dance" 6. "Do You Kung Fu" 7. "Mr. Ping's Noodle Factory" 8. "Chopsticks" 9. "Inside the Chinese Zodiac" 10. "Animals of Kung Fu Panda" 11. "A Day in the Life: Shaolin Monks in Training" 12. "KFP Shuffle" 13. "The World of Panda: A Look at China's National Mascot" Music Videos - 1. "Kung Fu Fighting" 2. "DreamWorks Animation Video Jukebox" Text/Photo Galleries - 1. "Set-Top Game: Panda Kicking Gallery" Trailer - KFP/Mad 2 Activision Game Interactive Features: Learn To Draw HP How to Video DVD-ROM: HP Printables KFP Activision Game Demo Mad 2 Activision Game Demo Mad 2 Activision Cheat Code KFP Sound Machine Weblinks DISC 2 - SECRETS OF THE FURIOUS FIVE Widescreen Interactive Features: Po's Power Play Land of the Panda
Product Notes
With 2008's KUNG FU PANDA, the talking-animal CGI film enters a new era, one that makes room for both painterly artwork and fierce martial-arts action. Po (voiced by Jack Black), a clumsy and ever-hungry panda, is a huge kung fu fan, but seems destined to sell noodles like his father, Mr. Ping (James Hong), who inexplicably happens to be a goose. When Po literally crashes a ceremony involving martial-arts masters Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) and their pupils, the Furious Five--which includes Tigress (Angelina Jolie, in a surprisingly small part) and Crane (David Cross)--he ends up being selected by the latter elder as the revered Dragon Warrior. As the skeptical Shifu reluctantly trains the hapless Po, his former star pupil, Tai Lung (Ian McShane), escapes from a high-security prison, setting up a collision course between the bumbling bear and the powerful villain.
One of the finest animated films released under the Dreamworks banner, KUNG FU PANDA deftly avoids many of the pitfalls of the genre (i.e. cheesy musical sequences), juggling action, heart, and humor in a highly entertaining way. While Black (in endearingly restrained mode), Hoffman, Kim, and McShane voice their characters with verve, the real stars of PANDA are directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson and their animators, who lovingly depict ornate Chinese chambers and vast mountainous vistas, as well as blazing kung fu battles. A movie with remarkably wide appeal, KUNG FU PANDA delivers on its quirky, high-concept title with gleeful aplomb.
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