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RELEASE DATE:     June 06th 2008
DIRECTOR:     John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
WRITER:     Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab
STARRING:     Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane
STUDIO:     DreamWorks Animation
GENRE:     Animation, Comedy
OFFICAL SITE:     kungfupanda.com
RATING:     PG for for sequences of martial arts action

Synopsis:
Jack Black heads the voice cast as Po the Panda, the laziest of all the animals in the Valley of Peace. With powerful enemies at the gates, all hope has been pinned on an ancient prophesy that a hero will rise to save the day. But among all the martial arts masters who come forward, none has shown the mark of The Chosen One ... until now. When Po unwittingly shows up in the midst of the competition, the masters are shocked to see that this unmotivated panda bears the mark. Now it is up to them to turn this gentle giant into a kung fu fighter before it's too late.

Dustin Hoffman will voice the role of Shifu, the by-the-book and tough-as-nails Kung Fu master, who has been given the unenviable task of turning the undisciplined Po into a kung fu fighter.

Jackie Chan will lend his voice to Master Monkey, a strong, agile and dedicated kung fu warrior, who serves as a daily reminder to Po of everything he is not ... yet.

Ian McShane (Deadwood) will be the voice of the villainous Tai Lung, a ferociously powerful snow leopard, who breaks out of prison, intent on using his kung fu skills to destroy the Valley of Peace.

Lucy Liu is in discussions to be the voice of Master Viper, another of Po's teachers, who can be coy and feminine when she needs to be, but can then uncoil the lethal kung fu warrior within.


Cast:
Jack Black     ...Po (voice)
Jackie Chan     ...Master Monkey (voice)
Dustin Hoffman     ...Shifu (voice)
Lucy Liu     ...Master Viper (voice)
Ian McShane     ...Tai Lung (voice)
David Cross     ...Master Crane (voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan     ...Commander Vachir (voice)
Dan Fogler     ...Zeng (voice)

Lyzaine_2007 wrote:

In the same way that Robin Williams’ tiringly manic shtick suddenly got about 100 percent more tolerable when it was coming out of the mouth of the shape-shifting genie in Disney’s “Aladdin,” Jack Black’s triumph-of-the-fat-guy routine gets a much-needed shot in the arm with “Kung Fu Panda,” a new animated comedy about a very unlikely martial arts champion.

Roly-poly Po (voiced by Black) dreams of glory as a kung fu master, fighting alongside the legendary Furious Five — Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Snake (Lucy Liu), Crane (David Cross) and Mantis (Seth Rogen) — but in his waking hours, he’s stuck working as a waiter in his father Mr. Ping’s (James Hong) noodle shop. (Po is a panda and Ping is a goose, but the former seems to have no idea that he might have been, say, adopted.)

When word gets out that the evil tiger Tai Lung (Ian McShane) — the previous acolyte of the Furious Five’s master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) — will return to the Valley of Peace to perpetrate another spree of violence, wise old turtle Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) decides that the time has come to crown a new Dragon Warrior, who will be allowed to read a sacred scroll said to endow unlimited power.

Last edited by deathwish4MCR-freak-dude (2008-06-07 23:37:08)