• Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Family
  • Release Date: 06/06/2008
  • Running Time: 91 mins
  • Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
  • Cast: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong
  • Producer: Melissa Cobb
  • Writer: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff
  • Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Box Office

  1. Tropic Thunder, 16.3 million, 65.8 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  5. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 4.3 million, 124.5 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Longshots, 4.1 million, 4.1 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Kung Fu Panda

By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal variant on the nerd-with-a-dream recipe that’s been clobbered to death in animated films for at least a decade now. Hectic as ever, Jack Black voices Po, a pot-bellied panda who’s stuck making noodles with dad (a goose—for reasons that escape me—voiced by James Hong), even though he lives and breathes kung fu trivia and longs to become a Master. The call comes from Dustin Hoffman as a pint-sized Zen guru, under whose grumpy tutelage Po and five other trainee critters with famous voices band together to save the world from a disgruntled snow leopard (Ian McShane). The movie’s design is striking, the colors are gorgeous, and the fight sequences are pretty suave—but the adorability quotient is set a little high for this jaded palate. And is there a child around the movie-going globe who couldn’t lip-synch by now the smug sloganeering about following your bliss, playing to your strengths, and learning to be a mensch in good times and bad? Department of small mercies: For once, the moral voice (or “takeaway,” as it’s excruciatingly called in the production notes) comes more out of Buddhism than the Protestant work ethic. So we’re talking smash hit in Marin County and Dharamsala. — Ella Taylor

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