Film Actually Ep045 (137) – Kung Fu Panda 2

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Hosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott

This week David and Josh review “Kung Fu Panda 2”. They also take in some entertainment news, including the new trailers for “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “The Muppets”. Plus they deliver a brand new Lists of Five: Five Most Disappointing Film Events. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

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Your show notes:

But First…

Feedback and what we’ve been watching. David runs over his experience with the disappointing “Cars 2”, after 16 years of hits, Pixar finally has a dud.

Feature Film Review

‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ directed by Jennifer Yuh and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. It stars the voice talents of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Seth Rogan, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Jackie Chan, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Danny MCBride and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed. – Source:  Dreamworks

Our Verdict: David and Josh have slightly differing opinions on this one. Josh liked it far more than David, but in the end both did like it and recommend it.

Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/kungfupanda2/

Before we get into Entertainment news, we are going to take a little musical break: “Weird Al” Yankovic skewers Lady Gaga with his new video clip “Perform This Way”. Watch it here http://youtu.be/ss_BmTGv43M

Entertainment Buzz

The new “Captain America” trailer is here!
https://geekactually.com/2011/06/24/new-trailer-and-poster-captain-america-the-first-avenger/

Finally some new news about “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
http://www.slashfilm.com/emma-stone-offered-pride-prejudice-zombies/

No more parodies, here is the full trailer for “The Muppets”
https://geekactually.com/2011/06/19/trailer-the-muppets/

It really isn’t an origin story. Julia Ormond in talks to play Lara in “The Man of Steel”.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/julia-ormond-in-talks-to-play-supermans-mom/

The Red Band Trailer for “Conan the Barbarian”, why isn’t David more excited?
https://geekactually.com/2011/06/19/red-band-trailer-conan-the-barbarian/

Lists of Five

This week our Lists of Five: Five Most Disappointing Film Events. Films get hyped, you get excited and then when you finally get to see the film you are just shattered. Let’s list five of such events.

Just a reminder, because we never like to just make things easy on ourselves, our lists are not necessarily top five lists, they are more or a less a list of film recommendations within the theme of the list.