Kung Fu Panda [DVD] (2008)

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Po considers quitting, but after receiving encouragement from Oogway, he endures his training and gradually befriends the Five with his resilience, culinary skill, and good humor. The film stars the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Jackie Chan. Shifu informs Oogway of the event, with the tortoise making Shifu promise to believe in Po as the Dragon Warrior, before passing away into the Spirit Realm in a stream of peach blossoms.

Pandamonium Breaks Loose on Sunday, November 9th When the Year's Biggest Comedy Debuts on DVD and Blu-ray Along With DreamWorks Animation's World Premiere of Po's All-New Adventure" (Press release).The film will be re-released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD for its 15th anniversary by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Jack Black joked about the film's underdog status at the 81st Academy Awards, saying "Each year, I do one DreamWorks project, then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar. Liu said that when she was presented with the project they already had artwork of her character as well as a "short computerized video version of what she would look like when she moved. The opening, which was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and produced by James Baxter, was praised by The New York Times reviewer Manohla Dargis as "striking" and "visually different from most mainstream American animations". Kung Fu Panda was the highest-grossing non- Shrek film from DreamWorks Animation in the United States and Canada before it was surpassed by How to Train Your Dragon in 2010.

At the same time, Shifu holds a tournament for the Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the prophesied hero worthy of reading the Scroll, which is said to grant limitless power to its reader. Crane carries Tigress, Viper, Monkey and Mantis back to the Jade Palace, where Shifu revives them and decides that Po is ready to receive the Dragon Scroll. Peter Howell of The Toronto Star awarded the film two and a half stars, considering it to have a "lack of story" that "frequently manages to amuse, if not entirely to delight".When the head of the production handed the script to VFX Supervisor Markus Manninen, she reportedly laughed and wished him "good luck".

The Furious Five are homages to the actual Snake, Monkey, Praying Mantis, Tiger, and Crane styles of Chinese martial arts. However, director Stevenson instead decided to make an action-comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character, in which the computer animation, this time, was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before. In spring 2004, Eric Whitacre wrote a setting of The Seal Lullaby, the opening poem of The White Seal by Rudyard Kipling, which DreamWorks intended to adapt for an animated feature.

The Chinese director Lu Chuan commented, "From a production standpoint, the movie is nearly perfect. It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for the Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Film, but lost both awards to WALL-E.

During this time, Po learns that Shifu's cold and distant behavior stems from his own shame over Tai Lung's betrayal, having raised him from infancy. The score for Kung Fu Panda was composed, like most DreamWorks Animation films, by Hans Zimmer, this time collaborating with John Powell: the former visited China to absorb the culture and used the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of the scoring process.From the cast of Kung Fu Panda, only Lucy Liu and James Hong reprised their roles, of Master Viper and Mr. Ian McShane as Tai Lung, an arrogant and aggressive snow-leopard who was formerly Shifu's adoptive son and student.