As far as movie franchises go, you can do much worse than Kung Fu Panda, which stars Jack Black as a panda destined to be a great martial artist. The voice cast is big-time and wonderful: Dustin Hoffman as the tiny sensei Shifu, Angelina Jolie as the stoic Tigress, Seth Rogen as Mantis, Lucy Liu as Viper and David […]
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Kung Fu Panda 2 “animation at its best”
Jack Black whips some animal butt as the voice of Po, the rotund Dragon Master panda, in Jennifer Yuh’s Kung Fu sequel. A vengeful peacock, Shen (Gary Oldman), invents a contraption that “eats fire and breathes metal”—a cannon—to help him conquer China. Po, yearning to discover his past (his “father” is a goose, after all), […]
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Even cavemen deserve better
Year One‘s director Harold Ramis has explained that what separates his Old Testament comedy from Mel Brooks’ The History of the World, Part I is its narrative continuity. Because Year One has no unifying point or point-of-view, that difference is negligible. This is still an episodic sketch film, and a mostly flat one at that. […]
