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Entertainment Weekly - 06/13/2008
"[T]he fight scenes, which are the heart of the film, are lickety-split mad fun..." -- Grade: A-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."New York Times - 06/06/2008
"At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength...KUNG FU PANDA is high concept with a heart....Visually arresting."Sight and Sound - 08/01/2008
"[H]ighly entertaining....Full of verve, visual panache and sock-it-to-you action scenes."Empire - 08/01/2008
4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a level of visual beauty here that's a notch above anything DreamWorks has attempted before..."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."
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.
| Directed by | Mark Osborne & John Stevenson | |
| Produced by | Melissa Cobb | |
| Screenwriting by | Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger | |
| Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
| Story by | Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris | |
| Voice | Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim & Dan Fogler | |
| Executive Production by | Bill Damaschke | |
| Co-Producer | Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger |
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