Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Directors:

Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Writers:

Jonathan Aibel (screenplay) &
Glenn Berger (screenplay) ...
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Data di uscita:

6 giugno 2008 (USA)

Genere:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Family

Slogan:

Prepare for awesomeness.

Plot:

Po the Panda is the laziest animals in all of the Valley of Peace, but unwittingly becomes the chosen one when enemies threaten their way of life.

Plot Keywords:

Talking Animal | Father Son Relationship | Scroll | Tiger | Fight

Premi:

1 nomination

Recensioni degli utenti:

Finally, Dreamworks Animation has a classic.

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Cast

Jack Black	...	Po (voice)
Dustin Hoffman	...	Shifu (voice)
Angelina Jolie	...	Tigress (voice)
Ian McShane	...	Tai Lung (voice)
Jackie Chan	...	Monkey (voice)
Seth Rogen	...	Mantis (voice)
Lucy Liu	...	Viper (voice)
David Cross	...	Crane (voice)
Randall Duk Kim	...	Oogway (voice)
James Hong	...	Mr. Ping (voice)
Dan Fogler	...	Zeng (voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Commander Vachir (voice)
Wayne Knight	...	Gang Boss (voice)
Kyle Gass	...	KG Shaw (voice)
JR Reed	...	JR Shaw (voice)
Laura Kightlinger	...	Awed Ninja (voice)
Tanya Haden	...	Smitten Bunny (voice)
Stephen Kearin	...	Gong Pig / Grateful Bunny (voice)
Mark Osborne	...	Pig Patron (voice)
John Stephenson	...	Rhino Guard (voice)
Jeremy Shipp	...	Blind Gator (voice)
Melissa Cobb	...	Bunny Mom (voice)
Kent Osborne	...	Pig Fan (voice)
Emily Robison	...	Bunny Fan # 1 (voice)
Stephanie Harvey	...	Bunny Fan #2 (voice)
Riley Osborne	...	Baby Tai Lung (voice)

Regia di
Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Scritto da
Jonathan Aibel		(screenplay) &
Glenn Berger		(screenplay)
Ethan Reiff		(story) &
Cyrus Voris		(story)

Prodotto da
Jonathan Aibel	....	co-producer
Glenn Berger	....	co-producer
Melissa Cobb	....	producer
Kristina Reed	....	associate producer

Musiche originali di
John Powell
Hans Zimmer

Fotografia di
Yong Duk Jhun

Montaggio di
Clare De Chenu		(as Clare Knight)

Scenografie di
Raymond Zibach

Architetto-scenografo
Tang Kheng Heng

Direttore di produzione
Mary Bills	....	production manager
Corrie Coughlin	....	additional production supervisor
Rene Harnois Jr.	....	production supervisor
Robyn Mesher	....	production supervisor
April Struebing	....	production supervisor
Patrice Avery	....	production supervisor (uncredited)

Art Department
Damon Bard	....	sculptor
Max Boas	....	visual development artist
Richard Daskas	....	visual development artist
Rodolphe Guenoden	....	storyboard artist
Bill Kaufmann	....	visual development artist
Christophe Lautrette	....	visual development artist
Caprice Ann Ridgeway	....	art researcher
Henrik Tamm	....	visual development artist
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	visual development artist
Spyros Tsiounis	....	storyboard
Melchior Zwyer	....	visual development artist

Sonoro
Erik Aadahl	....	sound designer
Erik Aadahl	....	supervising sound editor
James Ashwill	....	foley mixer
Anna Behlmer	....	sound re-recording mixer
Derek Casari	....	adr engineer
Blake R. Cornett	....	sound recordist
John T. Cucci	....	foley artist
Rylee Fansler	....	voice-over recordist
Craig Heath	....	sound recordist (as Craig 'Pup' Heath)
P.K. Hooker	....	sound effects editor
Roy Latham	....	original dialogue mixer
Wayne Lemmer	....	sound editor
Michael Miller	....	original dialogue mixer
Andy Nelson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dan O'Connell	....	foley artist
Paul Pirola	....	sound effects editor
Zachary C. Ross	....	sound intern
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer
Ethan Van der Ryn	....	sound designer
Larry Winer	....	original dialogue mixer

Visual Effects
Fernanda S. Abarca	....	surfacing artist
Motohisa Adachi	....	effects developer
Karla M. Alvarado	....	visual effects production assistant
William E. Arias	....	lighter
Shinsaku Arima	....	effects animator
David Bailey	....	matte painter
Brad Blackbourn	....	head of pre-viz
Silviu Borac	....	senior research & development engineer
Eric Bouffard	....	matte painter
Daniel J. Brick	....	matte painting technical director
Scott Brisbane	....	lead matte painter
Ronn Brown	....	matte painting supervisor
Jason Brubaker	....	compositor
Stuart Campbell	....	final layout artist
Craig Cannon	....	paint fixer
Kevin Carney	....	character effects technical director
Jason Carter	....	layout artist
Chloe Chao	....	research and development
Wes Chilton	....	effects animator/developer
Sebastien Chort	....	lighting artist
Shaun Collaco	....	lead lighting and compositing artist: Dreamworks Animation
Clint Colver	....	digital lighter
Robert Edward Crawford	....	layout/previs artist
Jonathan R. Cummings	....	technical director
Kwesi Davis	....	production engineer
Gilbert Davoud	....	character technical director
Barry Dempsey	....	surfacing/lighting technical director
Caine Dickinson	....	lighter: DreamWorks Animation SKG
Sandy Dong	....	surfacing artist
Adam J. Ely	....	digital matte painter: PDI/Dreamworks
Kolja Erman	....	effects technical director
Ken Faiman	....	character effects animator
Cassandra Fanning	....	digital effects artist
Peter Farson	....	character technical director
Oliver Finkelde	....	character effects technical director: DreamWorks
Louis Flores	....	visual effects lead
T.J. Galda	....	character technical director
Ashraf Ghoniem	....	character effects technical director
Caroleen Green	....	matte painter
Alex Gurevich	....	lighting technical director
Michael P. Hamler	....	lead lighter
Lei Han	....	lighting artist
Christian Hatfield	....	effects animator (as Christian A. Hatfield)
Edward Helmers	....	lighter
Corey Hels	....	layout artist: Dreamworks Animation
Robert Holder	....	lighter: DreamWorks
Cindy Hong	....	lead lighter
Emily How	....	digital artist
Lucas Janin	....	effects animator
Yong Duk Jhun	....	head of layout
David Jordan	....	lighting artist
Jeff Kasunic	....	lead lighter: DreamWorks
Louis Katz	....	lead matte painting compositor
Lisa Kim	....	lead lighting artist
Soo Kyung Kim	....	lighter
Jennifer Leigh King	....	digital artist
Gokhan Kisacikoglu	....	digital effects artist
Domin Lee	....	visual effects
Gary H. Lee	....	visual effects
Jaewon Lee	....	modeler
Li-Ming 'Lawrence' Lee	....	lead effects animator
Greg Lev	....	lead lighter
Victor Lew	....	visual effects artist
Kirk Lilwall	....	third assistant editor: DMR (IMAX version)
Benjamin Lishka	....	lead lighter
Markus Manninen	....	visual effects supervisor
Mariette Marinus	....	character technical director
Jeffrey Martin	....	character effects animator
Jason Mayer	....	effects artist
Matthew McCrory	....	lighting artist
Steve McGrath	....	modeler
Mark A. McGuire	....	head of global technical direction
Antonio Meazzini	....	digital effects artist
Zeki Melek	....	visual effects
Ori Neidich	....	media tools & post-production technology engineer
Rob Nitsch	....	character effects technical director: Dreamworks
William Opdyke	....	visual effects
Alex Parkinson	....	character effects supervisor
Alex Parkinson	....	crowds supervisor
Alex Parkinson	....	effects supervisor
Nikita Pavlov	....	visual effects
Noah Peterson	....	character finaler
Sven Pohle	....	character technical director
Bryan Poon	....	character effects
Dagan Potter	....	visual effects
Travis Price	....	surfacing
Madhava Reddy	....	digital intermediate
Paul Rivera	....	matte painter
Eric Roth	....	lighting artist
Nico Scapel	....	character technical director
David Schoneveld	....	visual effects
Scott C. Sells	....	digital effects artist
Sameer Shah	....	lighting technical director
Chris Simmons	....	digital artist: lighting
Aaron Smith	....	CG supervisor
Drew Solodzuk	....	DMR editor (IMAX version)
Young Song	....	surfacing artist
Matt Steele	....	character technical director
Curt Stewart	....	effects artist
April Struebing	....	production supervisor: Character Effects
Francois Sugny	....	effects animator
Joe Ark Sun	....	character effects animator
Olcun Tan	....	effects developer
Hector Tantoco	....	digital artist
Amy Taylor	....	character effects technical director
Don Taylor	....	lead lighter
Dave Tidgwell	....	visual effects lead
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	modeler
John Truong	....	character effects animator
Ozgur Ustundag	....	lighting artist
Marla Valentine	....	matte painting compositor
David Patrick Valera	....	layout artist
Koen Vroeijenstijn	....	visual effects animator
Dave Walvoord	....	CG supervisor
Matthew Wang	....	layout technical director
Gina Warr	....	lead lighting artist
Jason P. Weber	....	character effects technical director
Gabriel White	....	lighting artist
Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi	....	layout artist
Lori Williams	....	digital artist
Eve Wong	....	lighting technical director
Laura Wood	....	production engineer
Stephen Wood	....	visual effects animator
Joanna Wu	....	additional lighter
Greg Wuller	....	supervising technical director
Zhang Xiao	....	visual effects animator
Melva Young	....	lead lighter
Can Yuksel	....	visual effects animator

Animation Department
Manuel Almela	....	animator
Isabel Auphan	....	senior animator
Jeremy Bernstein	....	animator
Wee Brian	....	animator
Deter Brown	....	animator
Jason Brubaker	....	assistant animator
Alessandro Carloni	....	animation supervisor
Alessandro Carloni	....	story artist
Eric Deuel	....	animator
Jed Diffenderfer	....	story artist
Raffaella Filipponi	....	animator
G. Mark Fitzgerald	....	animation production assistant
Rex Grignon	....	animator
Rodolphe Guenoden	....	animation supervisor
Michael Kiely	....	animator
H.B. 'Buck' Lewis	....	character designer
Kevin MacLean	....	animator
Mary Ann Malcomb	....	animator
Nicolas Marlet	....	character designer
Hezekiah McMurray	....	layout artist
Pia Miniati	....	animation rig engineer
Anna Newman	....	animation research and development
Fredrik Nilsson	....	animator
Mark Nonnenmacher	....	digital matte painting
David Pate	....	animator
Jason Reisig	....	supervising animator
Ben Rush	....	animator
William Salazar	....	supervising animator
Matthew Schmidt	....	layout artist
Jeremy Shaw	....	animator
Chris Sherrod	....	rough layout artist
Olivier Staphylas	....	animator
Mike Stern	....	animator
Paul Theren	....	senior modeler
Gary Thomas	....	story artist
Christopher Vigil	....	animation production assistant
Dan Wagner	....	head of character animation
Makiko Wakita	....	animation production coordinator
Jennifer Yuh	....	story artist
Kathy Zielinski	....	animator
Guido Zimmermann	....	character technical director

Casting Department
Ania Kamieniecki	....	casting assistant
PoPing AuYeung	....	casting: Asia (uncredited)

Editorial Department
William J. Caparella	....	additional editor
Wayne Hellinger	....	post-production coordinator
C.K. Horness	....	editorial department
Kelly Matthews	....	editorial production assistant
Paul Neal	....	editor: high definition

Music Department
Chris Barrett	....	score assistant engineer
John A. Coleman	....	orchestrator
Jane Antonia Cornish	....	orchestrator
Germaine Franco	....	orchestrator
Gavin Greenaway	....	conductor
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestra contractor
Karen Han	....	musician: erhu
Charlene Ann Huang	....	music coordinator
Henry Jackman	....	composer: additional music
Kevin Kliesch	....	orchestrator
Steven Kofsky	....	music production services
Daniel Lerner	....	score technical engineer
James S. Levine	....	additional overdub production
James McKee Smith	....	composer: additional music
Dave Metzger	....	orchestrator
Alan Meyerson	....	music scoring mixer
Perry Montague Mason	....	orchestra leader
Jake Parker	....	orchestrator
Sunny Park	....	executive in charge of music
Ben Parry	....	choir coordinator
Adam Milo Smalley	....	music editor
Peter Oso Snell	....	assistant music editor
John Ashton Thomas	....	orchestrator
Greg Vines	....	score mixing assistant
Lucy Whalley	....	assistant orchestra contractor
Andrew Zack	....	score coordinator

Transportation Department
Adam Fox	....	driver: dustin hoffman (uncredited)

Altro personale
Holly Allen	....	production engineer
Rain Angeles	....	systems administrator (as Cherilee Angeles)
Steve Baker	....	research and development
Alain Banas	....	hardware engineer
Allison Bernardi	....	media coordinator
Will Bilton	....	research and development
Marty Brenes	....	hardware engineer
Greg Bulman	....	engineering system administrator
Scott Chapin	....	engineering system administrator
Jeff Chasin	....	production coordinator
Zach Clairville	....	production assistant
Michael Coronado	....	hardware engineer
Sarah Counnas	....	technology production manager
Jayson DeLancey	....	production engineer
John Detke	....	engineering system administrator
Holly Dorff	....	adr voice
Christopher Ell	....	production coordinator
Sean Ellis	....	engineering system administrator
Marc Fleury	....	engineering system administrator
Reid Gershbein	....	research and development
Adnan Ghani	....	hardware engineer
Tiffany Giddens	....	intern
Juli Gumbiner	....	technical resource supervisor
Audrey Holland	....	production assistant
Tiffany Hopper	....	engineering system administrator
Tiffany L. Hopper	....	engineering system administrator
Stephanie Huber	....	administrative assistant
Brent Hutchins	....	production coordinator
Joseph Izzo	....	production coordinator
Mark Jackels	....	production engineer
Geoffrey Jarrett	....	technical resource administrator
Sean Kamath	....	system architect
Jason Kankiewicz	....	infrastructure engineer
Hans Ku	....	alliance manager
Michael Lachance	....	creative executive
Tracy Larson	....	production coordinator
Jeff Lee	....	engineering system administrator
Mark Lelles	....	engineering system administrator
Jim Leuper	....	effects engineer
Jason Lloyd	....	hardware engineer
Michael Lynn	....	production coordinator
Rich Marco	....	engineering system administrator
Kelly Matthews	....	story production assistant
Peter McCown	....	production assistant
Rezk Mekhael	....	engineering system administrator
Brandon Miles	....	engineering system administrator
Corrin Milewski	....	research and development supervisor
Peter C. Miller	....	software quality assurance
Mike Mitchell	....	creative consultant
Olivier Mouroux	....	unit publicist
Brendan Murphy	....	assistant to producers
Brendan O'Connor	....	production coordinator
John O'Sullivan	....	systems administrator
Raffi Parikian	....	engineering system administrator
Paul Parmer	....	editorial systems engineer
Andrew Pearce	....	director of research and development
Matt Pomeroy	....	script supervisor
Jason Lee Pope	....	engineering system administrator
Travis Price	....	surfacer
Ernesto Quiroz	....	hardware engineer
Joshua F. Richards	....	research and development
Daniel Rich	....	engineering system administrator
Michael Riley	....	title designer
Roberto M. Romo	....	engineering system administrator
David Rosenbaum	....	production coordinator
Stephen E. Ross	....	engineering system administrator
Donald Schmidt	....	research and development
Jeremy Shipp	....	editorial production supervisor
Morgan J. Steele	....	administative assistant
Allen Stetson	....	lead technical director
Mark M. Tokunaga	....	manager of digital resources
Tim Toll	....	engineering system administrator
Tina Tseng	....	production accountant
Ivan Van Norman	....	production assistant
Lorraine Vos	....	first assistant production accountant
Makiko Wakita	....	production coordinator
Daniel Yu	....	research and development
Jennifer Yuh	....	head of story

Thanks
Michael John Mollo	....	special thanks
Debbie L. O'Keeffe	....	special thanks
Stuart Sumida	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• DreamWorks Animation
• Pacific Data Images (PDI)

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures
• DreamWorks Animation (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2008) (France) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (Russia) (all media)

Effetti speciali

• PDI DreamWorks

Other Companies

• Absolute Rentals  post-production rentals
• Dakota Music Services  music preparation
• Interscope Records  soundtrack
• London Session Orchestra, The  orchestra (uncredited)
• Technicolor  prints

Alias:

Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience (USA) (IMAX version)

MPAA:

Rated PG for sequences of martial arts action.

Durata:

92 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonoro:

DTS | Sonics-DDP (IMAX version) | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Divieti:

Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:PG | UK:PG | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | South Korea:All | Taiwan:GP (original rating) | Ireland:PG | Finland:K-7 | USA:PG (certificate #44302) | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:G | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Malaysia:U

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Curiosità:

WILHELM SCREAM: When Tai Lung is escaping prison and is hitting the guards with a mace. He flings a guard into the air and when he kicks the guard through the door, just before he lands, you hear it.

Citazioni:

[first lines]
Po: Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend.

Movie Connections:

Citato in "Saturday Night Live: Steve Carell/Usher (#33.12)" (2008)

Finally, Dreamworks Animation has a classic.

After various 3D animated movies ranging from lacklustre "star" movies ("Madagascar"), boring tripe ("Shark Tale", "Bee Movie"), and over-rated, over-hyped overkill ("Shrek"), Dreamworks can finally be proud of a truly great film. (Sidebar: I actually enjoyed "Flushed Away" and "Over The Hedge".) First, the bad. If I could complain about ANYTHING it may be a few of the voices. Besides Po, Shifu and Oogway, the rest of the cast seemed pretty 'phoned-in'. Thankfully, those characters are pretty inconsequential so they're not really missed.

Now the good... or rather great. While classic kung fu movies are poked fun at, Kung Fu Panda does an excellent job of treating the genre with great respect in a movie geared towards kids. And while it IS kid friendly, it is not dumbed down to the point where it's childish. All the classic elements of those great kung fu flicks are there, while still keeping it pleasantly G-rated.

Let me get this out of the way: this movie has some of the greatest 3D animated fight scenes. Ever. What elevates them from good to great is that while I expected the unbelievable, gravity-defying stunts that are REQUIRED of a good kung fu movie, there is an amazing amount of 'realism' to the physics in this movie. Just watch the jailbreak and you'll understand.

Speaking of animation, the cinematography, character design and backgrounds are all done very, very well. Whether it's flying through the air alongside a leaping character, the painting-like backgrounds, or the wonderful opening sequence (reminiscent of Samurai Jack), they're all beautiful. Snap zooms, slow-motion, and flying cameras are also used with great skill to further the experience.

Even the music and sound is outstanding. Asian drums rumble in the background of intense fights... stones shatter and crumble away... fight sequences rise and fall with each of the music cues, or is that the other way around? Beautiful.

What helps make this a new classic in my eyes is what it doesn't have. There are no Matrix, Spiderman, or other dated references. There are no inside jokes related to the voice actors. There isn't even any double entendre or unnecessary crude humour. Much like "Finding Nemo" or "Monsters Inc", there's just plenty of pop-culture-free goodness that is terribly entertaining.

The last great part of this movie is often the most overlooked part of a good family film... heart. This movie has oodles of it. Other movies have tried to have a lesson in the end like 'be yourself' ("Shrek"), or 'the value of friends' ("Madagascar"), or... 'be yourself' ("Shark Tale"), but "Kung Fu Panda" has genuine cinematic moments with dialogue that carries real weight. Best line: Oogway regarding yesterday, tomorrow and today.

So, finally, as a complete sucker for Pixar animation, I'm glad that another animation company can actually put proper thought and execution into a FAMILY movie. What else can I say? Congratulations Dreamworks. 10 out of 10.