Kung Fu Panda

[TB4000]

DreamWorks Sets Kung Fu Panda Date
Source: Variety
September 21, 2005


DreamWorks Animation has set its 2008 with the Jack Black vehicle Kung Fu Panda joining the recently announced Madagascar 2, reports Variety.

Influenced by cartoonish live-action pics like Kung Fu Hustle "Panda" will star Black as the voice of a lazy panda prophesied to save the Valley of Peace.

The film will be directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne. Melissa Cobb will produce from a screenplay by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab.

[Arex]

Madagascar 2? Did anyone even watch the first one??

As for Kung Fu Panda, Black's character better not speak with an Asian accent.

[sinisterpanda]

I saw the first one...what a waste.

THat's pretty awesome though, I love pandas and I hope they make him awesome! Why is it still called madagascar? Is he going to madagascar? I mean...aren't the other characters still stuck somewhere. This doesn't make any sense.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

I heard Madagascar was great. Still waiting for rental though.

[TB4000]

I saw the first one...what a waste.

THat's pretty awesome though, I love pandas and I hope they make him awesome! Why is it still called madagascar? Is he going to madagascar? I mean...aren't the other characters still stuck somewhere. This doesn't make any sense.
Kung Fu Panda is a whole separate movie.

[Martino]

I like to beat up that panda in Tekken 5 ...

[TB4000]

Here's the entire synopsis of the plot.

A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po (Voiced by Jack Black), who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything

[hooligan]

Shit, someone's been playing warcraft 3

[sinisterpanda]

I like to beat up that panda in Tekken 5 ...


You take that back!!

[thaite]

what the...

[Irezumi Kiss]

Been there, done that...anyone remember this Saturday morning gem?

http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/pandamonium.jpg

[kimpossible]

No. But the pandas look strung out.

[SunWuKong]

Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything


don't kids ever tire of this theme?

this is why i found American cartoon boring when i first moved to this country. but i liked Transformers - i mean, who doesn't like giant robots? and i also liked He-Man. i don't know why i liked He-Man but hold your gay comments. :tongue:

[Napoleon Chynamite]

^ He-Man was my favorite cartoon of all time. I didn't care much for Transformers, for some reason.

[Martino]

^ He-Man was my favorite cartoon of all time. I didn't care much for Transformers, for some reason.

no half naked blond hunks?

i liked He-Man but hold your gay comments. :tongue:

oops

[Arex]

^ He-Man was my favorite cartoon of all time. I didn't care much for Transformers, for some reason.He-Man never really grew on me 'cause the only time I got to watch it was when I was sick at home. Otherwise, my elementary school classes ran too late to catch it in the afternoon. It was all about Transformers, GI*Joe, Robotech and TMNT.

I'm not sure what that Pandamonium crap is about though. I'm guessing that show didn't last for more than a season or two?

RX

[Napoleon Chynamite]

no half naked blond hunks?



oops


Haha. Actually I think that's where my preference for legs over T&A might have originated...from watching Sorceress and Evil Lynn. Then again it's not like those two were lacking T&A or anything, but anyways~~

He-Man never really grew on me 'cause the only time I got to watch it was when I was sick at home. Otherwise, my elementary school classes ran too late to catch it in the afternoon. It was all about Transformers, GI*Joe, Robotech and TMNT.

Yea for some reason, unlike most guys (or young boys/children), I never did find robots that cool or interesting. I also never understood the fascination with those mech warrior thingies in Anime. I guess I liked my large powerful creatures living and breathing...which may have explained my obsession with dinosaurs.

[SunWuKong]

He-Man never really grew on me 'cause the only time I got to watch it was when I was sick at home. Otherwise, my elementary school classes ran too late to catch it in the afternoon. It was all about Transformers, GI*Joe, Robotech and TMNT.

both He-Man and Transformers were actually very popular in HK when i was little. that was probably why i still liked them after i moved to the US. they were in re-runs by then, that's why i got to watch them after school. i think those and the Smurfs were the only American cartoons that were popular in HK. other than that, it was all Japanese anime.

my favourite was Gundam. Robotech can't compare. :biggrin: well, i'm talking about the original series. i haven't watched much Robotech after the first series. i've watched all of Gundam Wing and that was really good.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Someone tell me why NOBODY ever got the fact that Prince Adam and He-Man were the SAME PERSON even when they had the SAME FRIGGIN' HAIRSTYLE and SAME FRIGGIN' BUILD?

http://www.schlusenbach.net/Altepage/Fotos/He-man/he_man4.jpg

http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/userpages/students/Michael_Attisha/images/reviews/heman1.jpg

:tongue:

I'm not sure what that Pandamonium crap is about though. I'm guessing that show didn't last for more than a season or two?
Yeah, I forget exactly when it came out, maybe late 80s, but it was kinda weird. Original, but weird. There was this magic artifact in the shape of a pyramid that for some reason exploded into a hundred or so mini pyramid pieces and was scattered throughout the world. One of these pieces somehow found its way into China and gave these three pandas the ability to talk and also another unique power. They then had to travel the world and find the rest of the pieces of the pyramid before their antagonists, whom I can't remember specifically, collected them first and acheived some sort of world domination thru the pyramid's power.

The power of the three pandas was when they acrobatically "joined" to form some quasi-panda that radiated some sort of rainbow-colored energy that did some shit, I can't remember. They couldn't do it for more than a few seconds and it was their backup "finishing move" when they got into a jam and shit. The move was called the "Poppa Panda." Oh yeah, everyone else was human and for some reason had no problem interacting with talking, slacker-looking pandas. You gotta love the power of suspension-of-belief!

It sounds like a martial-arts sorta joint, but the series' overall theme was more like The Three Stooges in pandaface. Weird premise, but kinda fetching. You could probably find this on DVD now at a comic book convention or a comic/fandom store that specializes in underground-circulated, commerically unreleased, classic old-school Saturday animation like "Turbo Teen" and "The Funky Phantom."

[SunWuKong]

Someone tell me why NOBODY ever got the fact that Prince Adam and He-Man were the SAME PERSON even when they had the SAME FRIGGIN' HAIRSTYLE and SAME FRIGGIN' BUILD?

http://www.schlusenbach.net/Altepage/Fotos/He-man/he_man4.jpg

http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/userpages/students/Michael_Attisha/images/reviews/heman1.jpg

:tongue:


it's obvious. He-Man has orange hair and Adam has yellow hair. duh.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Someone tell me why NOBODY ever got the fact that Prince Adam and He-Man were the SAME PERSON even when they had the SAME FRIGGIN' HAIRSTYLE and SAME FRIGGIN' BUILD?

http://www.schlusenbach.net/Altepage/Fotos/He-man/he_man4.jpg

http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/userpages/students/Michael_Attisha/images/reviews/heman1.jpg

It's always like that, some sort of inside joke among superhero fans and creators or something. Like with Clark Kent and Superman. Or Batman, even though he has a mask, and Spiderman.

[Faithless]

Kung Fu Panda picks up where Beverly Hills Ninja left off... :rolleyes:

[Napoleon Chynamite]

I guess I never really noticed that but for some reason with the small nose and other darker features (except the hair), He-Man kinda looked like an Asian dude.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Haha. Actually I think that's where my preference for legs over T&A might have originated...from watching Sorceress and Evil Lynn
If you have some free time, do a Google and check out some of the unsolicited fan art of Evil Lynn on the web. Some stuff out there you wouldn't have seen in the cartoon version, I tell ya.

Hmm...separated at birth? He-Man's Evil-Lynn...

http://www.planeteternia.de/grafiken/main/wp01k.jpg

...and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother?

http://www.psy.plym.ac.uk/year2/social_behaviour/wicked-stepmother.gif

[TB4000]

More Voices for Kung Fu Panda
Source: DreamWorks Animation
November 9, 2005


DreamWorks Animation announced today that two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, international superstar Jackie Chan, and award-winning actor Ian McShane are joining Jack Black in the cast of the computer-animated comedy Kung Fu Panda. In addition, award-winning actress Lucy Liu is currently in talks with the studio to voice another main role.

Black (Shark Tale) 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.

Slated for release in May 2008, Kung Fu Panda is being directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb.

[abc!]

The Kung Fu Panda movie doesn't seem very promising. Keeping my fingers crossed though.

This Pandamonium cartoon on the other hand, though I've never seen it or heard about it, sounds pretty cool! Sounds like some type of cartoon for stoners, actually, haha.

Haha. Actually I think that's where my preference for legs over T&A might have originated...from watching Sorceress and Evil Lynn. Then again it's not like those two were lacking T&A or anything, but anyways~~

Is it just me or did other people wish that Cheetara from Thundercats, Arcee from Transformers, Nikko from the Galaxy Rangers, Firestar from Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Scarlet, the Baroness from G.I. Joe, Minmei from Robotech, April O'neil from TMNT, Mother-1 from Bionic 6 and all the girls of Jem would get in a huge, soapy water fight at the local carwash and rinse off on the slip n slide in your backyard?

I guess I liked my large powerful creatures living and breathing...which may have explained my obsession with dinosaurs.

Harness the power...Dino-riders!

[TB4000]

http://animatie.blog.nl/trailers/2007/10/27/exclusief-kung-fu-panda-trailer


I knew they couldn't resist putting "Kung Fu Fighting" in there. I just knew it.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Is it just me or did other people wish that Cheetara from Thundercats, Arcee from Transformers, Nikko from the Galaxy Rangers, Firestar from Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Scarlet, the Baroness from G.I. Joe, Minmei from Robotech, April O'neil from TMNT, Mother-1 from Bionic 6 and all the girls of Jem would get in a huge, soapy water fight at the local carwash and rinse off on the slip n slide in your backyard?

I think that was just you.....I didn't get that perverted until I hit 23.

[TB4000]

http://movies.aol.com/movie/kung-fu-panda/24474/video/trailer-no-2/2057763

Full trailer now online.

[TB4000]

Get ready for the Kung Fu Panda-ness tomorrow.

http://l.yimg.com/img.movies.yahoo.com/ymv/us/img/flickr/02/62/002509570262.jpg?x=660&y=660&sig=yeHOOi3uMa5OWDxbrBNjww--
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[Paradox]

Sounds lame but I will download it like I do all shitty hollywood releases.

[yoMAMA]

wow, the graphics are amazing.

[artsfartsyjanet]

I watched the film last night and laughed from the beginning to the end of the movie.

[Wuwei]

Saw it over the weekend, and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting cheap Asian jokes and horrible accents, but it wasnt like that at all.

I suggest you guys to go see it with your friends, and support it at the box office.

[SunWuKong]

wow, just realised from the earliest post in this thread that the film took nearly three years to make.

[J Honcanese]

The graphics look incredible and I appreciate the fact that there aren't any Asian accents and such. However I am generally getting bored with Hollywood's never-ending fixation on Kung Fu. I mean come on, there's so much more to Asian culture than the martial arts!

[TB4000]

Everytime I see this commercial I think of kimpossible for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnpMuDDmWQ

[cloudzero]

wow yall been talking bout it since 05?
so why did china want to boycott the movie?
was it because of the cultural caricature or the use of a national symbol? or both?

[eos]

Ska-doosh!

[Dimeron]

wow yall been talking bout it since 05?
so why did china want to boycott the movie?
was it because of the cultural caricature or the use of a national symbol? or both?

I don't think China boycotted this movie. It did quite well in China as I recall. There was this Chinese dude who sued dreamwork and boycotted the movie saying they stole his panda design though. Not sure how that one is going.

But anyways, I thought the movie was pretty good. No stereotypical caricature for the purpose of humor.

Tai Lung could have done without the fu manchu mustache though.

[BillBlythe]

Omigod...Why am I watching a Mcdonalds commercial on my computer!!???

funny comment from a ytube user.

seems like they got us no matter where we go.

[cloudzero]

the whole setting was a caricature. 11 year olds who watched this would grow up thinking this is how china is. temples and blossom trees

[Broomer]

I'm actually hoping there's a sequel. This time, hopefully they work more Chinese mythology into it.

Ka