{"id":1731,"date":"2008-05-16T02:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2008-05-16T02:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T01:33:31","slug":"cannes-2008-reactions-kung-fu-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/05\/16\/cannes-2008-reactions-kung-fu-panda\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes 2008 Reactions: Kung Fu Panda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night saw the out of competition premiere of Kung Fu Panda<\/strong><\/a> – the latest animated film from DreamWorks Animation.<\/p>\n

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After Jack Black<\/a> posed yesterday for photographers alongside a bunch of pandas<\/a> and inadvertantly confirmed that co-star Angelina Jolie was pregnant with twins<\/a>, people finally got a look at the film.<\/p>\n

Here is a summary of the critical reaction.<\/p>\n

James Rocchi of Cinematical <\/strong>is impressed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dreamworks Animation’s latest effort may stick out a little on the Red Carpet at Cannes — where it’s screening out of competition — but it’s certainly a well-made kid’s film that earns high points for how directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne clearly crafted and contemplated its look and feel with ambition and style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Richard Corliss of Time <\/strong>is also taken with the cartoon panda<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today DreamWorks unveiled its latest ani-movie, Kung Fu Panda. As cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment, it proved an excellent choice.<\/p>\n

…some sequences [are] so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen Wo-ping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Todd McCarthy of Variety <\/strong>is more circumspect<\/a>:<\/p>\n

How many underdog kidpic characters have been told “You just need to believe” in recent years? Whatever the ample number, add one more to the list with “Kung Fu Panda,” a nice looking but heavily formulaic DreamWorks animation entry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks like this is going to do solid business when it opens in the US on June 6th and the UK on July 4th.<\/p>\n

Here is the moment where Jack Black accidentally let slip Jolie was pregnant with twins whilst in an interview with Natalie Morales <\/span> of the Today show:<\/p>\n

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> Kung Fu Panda<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Official site for Kung Fu Panda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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