Kung Fu Panda | |
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Directed by | John Stevenson Mark Osborne |
Screenplay by | Jonathan Abiel Glenn Berger |
Story by | Ethan Reiff Cyrus Voris |
Produced by | Melissa Cobb |
Starring | Jack Black Dustin Hoffman Angelina Jolie Ian McShane Jackie Chan Seth Rogen Lucy Liu David Cross Randall Duk Kim James Hong |
Cinematography | Yong Duk Jhun |
Edited by | Clare Knight |
Music by | Hans Zimmer John Powell |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates | June 6, 2008 June 20, 2008 (China) July 4, 2008 (United Kingdom and Ireland) July 9, 2008 (France) | (USA)
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $130 million |
Box office | $631,744,560 |
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy movie made by DreamWorks. It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne. It tells the story of Po, a giant panda (Jack Black), a kung fu fan who becomes a kung fu master. It received critical acclaim and became a box office success. A successful sequel, Kung Fu Panda 2 was released in 2011. Another sequel, Kung Fu Panda 3 was released in 2016. There is also two short movies, a Christmas special, and a spinoff TV show.
A big, fat panda named Po the panda dreams of becoming a kung fu master, but he doesn't know kung fu. One day, kung fu teacher Master Shifu holds a contest to see who will become the Dragon Warrior, the most powerful kung fu master in the land. Everyone thinks one of Shifu's students, the Furious Five will become the Dragon Warrior, but Po is chosen instead and begins learning kung fu. Shifu and the Furious Five don't like Po the panda and try to make him quit, but he becomes friends with them. When Master Shifu learns that the evil Tai Lung the snow leopard is coming to the land, he quickly teaches Po kung fu so he can be given the Dragon Scroll that will help him beat Tai Lung. Nothing is written on the scroll, but Po finds out that he doesn't need the scroll to be the Dragon Warrior and beats Tai Lung without it. Po becomes a kung fu master and Dragon Warrior loved by everyone and peace returns to the land.