Hey guys, I’m still in Austin Texas at South By South West, but /Film Reader Dustin R is in Las Vegas at ShoWest, and sent us this report from the DreamWorks/Paramount event:
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Hey you guys,
I was able to attend the ShoWest event last night at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV to see a pre-release version of Kung Fu Panda. You probably heard about it, and it wasn’t that big enough to post on the site. But this mini-event was pretty amazing, if gave the public probably a few hundred people along with industry reps to see roughly 95% of Kung Fu Panda in it’s completed form. The film looks brilliant; they really pushed it all the way this time, although some things seem to need a little tweaking here and there. The voice acting is great, Jack Black does a great job as well as Dustin Hoffman. But the secondary characters voiced by Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, and David Cross don’t have much dialogue in the film, which makes their characters feel empty and lifeless in the voice acting and animation part.
This movie is really great though, they nailed the Kung Fu part by fusing a dash of japanese animation for the intro, and adding brilliant kung fu moves throughout the movie which is amazing to see when everything is so fluent and animated.
Another great thing about this event is that before they showed Kung Fu Panda, Jeffrey Katzenberg showed up to give a brief introduction about the small past of their animation movies. With that said, he brought up the movie Shrek, and without further announcement Mr. Mike Myers came out on stage to talk about his movie the Love Guru which stars Mike Myers, Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake. And as soon as Mike Myers brought up Jessica’s name, their she came out on stage, looking pregnant and gorgeous as always.
He showed a few clips of his movie which I have to say was sort of disappointing in my mind. All the clips had humor in them, but the jokes didn’t seem to hold up, which is rare for a Mike Myers film. It seemed like a cheap comedy film. But we still have several months before its released so who knows what post production might do to the film. Although it is funny to see Justin Timberlake as a spanish person.
If you guys want anymore 411 on the special event hit me up.
Thanks,
Dustin R
March 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I agree with your comments about Mike Meyer’s new movie. I tend to like most of his movies, but while watching the trailer for The Love Guru, I didn’t exactly fall in love with it. I’m kind of disappointed that the other clips that they showed from the movie seemed to be the same from the trailer. I hope that they are able to fix it up.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Thanks for the announcement! I’ve been waiting for Kung Fu Panda to come out for a while, so I’m even more excited for it now. I’m really glad to see it got a good review.
Can’t believe you got to see Jessica Alba!
Dustin Ravize rocks my world!
March 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
at amc theatres they have a kung fu panda sponsored ‘turn off your cellphones’ message before all movies, and its awkwardly unfunny. i cant imagine the movie being any better, especially given dreamwork animation’s epic fail of a catalogue. bee movie, shark tale, over the hedge. shrek. fuck that shit.
and jesus christ the love guru looks terrible.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Its disappointing to think of Mike Myers doing things for money. With Shrek and Cat In The Hat and three Austin Powers movies under his belt you think he could spend the time on a decent comedic flick. But I guess that’s the point; he is out of touch, has become Eddie Murphy and has to make trash… that somehow still sells. I wonder if Guru will be nominated for any academy awards for makeup this year?
March 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This guy said “great” about a bazillion times.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
torontonian here,
as you may or may not have heard, the leafs are no joke here.
mike meyers doing this film is no cash grab, its a homage.
if billy cristal did a yankee’s flik all you would hear about is “…his love for the city/franchise”. the same aplies for meyers and toronto. cut the man some slack.
its like any of you making a movie about your most worshiped childhood icon.
it’ll most likely flop and you can hate if you want, but 3 million people got his back up here (except for Cat in the Hat).
and i think justin is playing a french canadian. hispanics have yet to make their mark on the NHL.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Who does this Dustin R kid think he is??? Really you live in the LV come on JK :)