The movie is the third installment of the popular Kung Fu Panda series which follows the adventures of Po, a lazy and often-hungry Panda who was surprisingly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy of becoming the Dragon Warrior. As a result of its focus on Po, his fathers and the panda village, the presence of Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and the Furious Five seems unwarranted, and it feels as if they were only included to appeal to fans of the prequels.
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Along with the return of the terrific Jack Black as Po and his former kung fu compadres Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Viper (Lucy Liu), a new voice addition is Kate Hudson as the flamboyant panda ribbon dancer Mei Mei, who adds quite the hilarious touch to this talented assortment.
A quick catch-up: Over the course of two films dating back to 2008, a clumsy, giant panda named Po became an improbable hero, dumpling eating champion and kung fu master. The interesting thing is, since the first three films have fallen perfectly into place and feel like a natural progression, Aibel and Berger said it had nothing to do with working off a giant roadmap. Kung Fu Panda 3 is released on 11 March in the UK. Po’s tickled, but Mr. Ping (James Hong), the goose that adopted Po and raised him as his son, isn’t.
The Kung Fu Panda movies rank among best and best-looking films the studio has produced. Mostly, Kung Fu Panda 3 is just fun: For Po to become the most Po he can be, he reunites with his long-lost father, Li (Bryan Cranston), an older but not necessarily wiser panda with similar appetites and enthusiasms. Jack Black is visiting South Korea to promote their animation film “Kung Fu Panda 3” which will be released in South Korea on January 28.
The comedian managed to land his eldest boy, Samuel, a small role in the new Kung Fu Panda sequel, and when movie bosses agreed, four of his co-star Angelina Jolie’s children were also invited to voice characters for the animated project. “It’s more like, ‘What time would you like to come do some voiceover?’ And you’re sort of like, ‘Noon would be great'”. Po remains a charming bumbler – excited to learn, for example, that other pandas don’t eat with chopsticks.
Then Po teaches the other pandas to fight back against Kai.
Hudson plays Po’s love interest, Mei Mei, in the movie. The animators had already grabbed our attention with the mystical jade energy Kai commands, and those visuals really explode here, riotously swirled with the sunset-colored glow marking Po’s ascent to next-level bodaciousness.
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“You’re not even thinking about, ‘Is it Monday or Tuesday?’ or ‘What time is it?’ any more, you’re just thinking about how he’s changed from minute to minute and his reactions”, she explained.
