Kung Fu Panda Preview

So after very disappointing reviews for their latest project, DreamWorks Animation hopes that their next project will be more successful with audiences. The reception of Bee Movie wasn’t as friendly as everyone wanted it to be, but there is hope with the upcoming Kung Fu Panda. Like most of the previous and past projects from DreamWorks Animation, Kung Fu Panda has a cast of well known actors and actresses, which includes Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie, and Dustin Hoffman.

Kung Fu Panda focuses on Po the Panda (voiced by Jack Black), who is a waiter in a noodle restaurant, and his obsession for kung fu. However, his lifestyle as a panda, known as the laziest animal in ancient China, prevents Po from becoming a kung fu master. Then when the jungle animals are threatened by a gang of snow leopards, the jungle animals put all of their hopes on a prophecy that states that Po, “The Chosen One”, would save the day. Trying to carry out the prophecy, a group of kung fu masters attempt to teach Po the ways of kung fu. However these kung fu masters will need to have a lot of patience to turn this lazy panda into the animal that will save the day before it’s too late to stop these very powerful enemies. These kung fu masters include Master Monkey (voiced by Jackie Chan), Tigress (Jolie), a red panda named Shifu (Hoffman), and Master Viper (Liu).

This really excites me. There should be a lot of funny moments along the way through the path that Po has to take. This is also another one of those movies that focuses around one of those uncommon animals, similar to Ratatouille focusing on rats. However as we have seen with Bee Movie, DreamWorks Animations productions are fallible. It may also be geared towards kids more but still it should offer some good laughs along the way. Kung Fu Panda is scheduled to be released in June 2008, so details about the movie are scarce right now, but as it gets closer to release, movie fans will be able to get a better gauge on what the movie will be like.