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...Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey (Jackie Chan) - are showily displaying the fabulous skills they have honed under the stern eye of their teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Then, through plot contortions even more acrobatic than anything the Furious Five have demonstrated, Po is declared the new kung fu hero. Shifu is aghast: this clown can't be taught anything. Yet Oggway believes that the accident that dropped Po out of the sky was no accident at all. The roly-poly panda is the one chosen to battle the evil master Tin Lung (Ian McShane), who'll be breaking...
...pandas the new penguins? Has animal adorability traded in its dinner jacket for two black eyes? The answer is yes, on the evidence of DreamWorks' latest ani-movie, Kung Fu Panda. Taking as its source the same Hong Kong martial-arts films that inspired Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the new picture provides a master coursed in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment...
...movie will also remind more recent Hong Kong fans of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, the story of an oaf who becomes a hero against by battling a long-imprisoned supervillain. KFP shifts into high gear when its big baddie, Tai Lung, escapes from his prison dungeon, breaking chains, bones and the law of gravity with equal finesse. Many of the fights - Tai Lung vs. the Five Furies, or vs. Shifu or, finally, against a certain panda - are so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen...
...Crystal Skull, the first Indy movie since 1989, was headline news. Producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg and leading man Harrison Ford showed up to promote their familiar if robust revival of the archaeologist adventurer. Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman appeared with their sweetly vigorous animated comedy Kung Fu Panda, and Woody Allen presented a very agreeable romance, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with star Penélope Cruz...
...films, your Indys and Woodys and Clints and kung fu cartoons, dominate international coverage of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. But for the reviewers, there's the daily joy and slog of covering the 21 films in competition for the Palme d'Or and another 40 or so in satellite showcases. Here are critical snapshots of 10 films, from six countries, which tell more about the current, tenuous state of world cinema than the star-encrusted Hollywood fare. (Speaking of which, we went to a party last night where we both spoke at length with Mr. Eastwood...