'Kung Fu Panda' Sequel Coming in 3-D

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02Oct2008

'Kung Fu Panda' Sequel Coming in 3-D

Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 3:33AM

Angelina Jolie and Jack Black will reprise their characters for the sequel to Kung Fu Panda, tentatively titled Pandamonium, which will be released June 3, 2011.

Variety reported what has been a no-brainer for some time: Kung Fu Panda is an animated movie, it's a very good movie, and it was a big hit, staring down Pixar's Wall-E in the U.S. and worldwide, so naturally it will have a sequel.

Expect Pandamonium (the title is itself kind of a no-brainer) to be in 3-D; beginning next fall, the recently liberated DreamWorks will give all of its animated films the bulky, not-yet-perfected plastic glasses treatment. We just announced that Black will be working on a live-action spy spoof with Panda writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and they're coming back into the fold for this sequel, too.

My only hope is that we see more of Po's dreams. That style of animation, the Samurai Jack approach you see a lot of these days, really comes to life on the big screen. I can only imagine its potential in 3-D and over a longer period of time.

Regardless, this is a sequel I'd actually be interested to see. Rarely do you leave a movie thinking there's a lot more story to be told, but I felt that way about Kung Fu Panda, much to my surprise.

Colin Boyd |

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