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In Kung Fu Panda, the family film of the summer, Jack Black is perfectly cast as the voice of a shambling, pot-bellied panda, who is transformed into a martial arts hero to defend his village. By Sukhdev Sandhu Kung Fu Panda PG cert, 92 min Kung Fu Panda. Say the name and say it again: Kung Fu Panda! Funny, direct and so very, very right. How can any film live up to such a title? Pretty well, actually. Directors Jack Stevenson and Mark Osborne have got themselves a simple, easy-to-understand story, a talented team of animators and visual-effects maestros, and a starry, till-ringing cast of voice actors, all of whom combine to create one of the less noisy but more effective films for the whole family this summer. The panda of the title is Po (voiced by Jack Black), a pot-bellied, gentle-eyed bear living in a sleepy hamlet... [read full story]
