'Kung Fu Panda 3': New trailer reveals a new star in the Panda-verse
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A new trailer has been released for the upcoming film 鈥淜ung Fu Panda 3.鈥澛
The first two films centered on panda Po (Jack Black), who wants to become an expert at kung fu and tries to do so despite the lack of confidence in him from the "Furious Five," kung fu experts voiced by actors including Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, and Seth Rogen, who are all back in the latest installment.听
The new voice is 鈥淏reaking Bad鈥 star Bryan Cranston as Po鈥檚 father, Li. Most of the trailer involves Po and Li meeting and both not grasping the connection between the fact that Po lost his father and Li lost his son.
鈥淲ell, good luck to you,鈥 Po鈥檚 father tells him before the two go their separate ways, ignoring the stunned disbelief on the faces of all the animals around them.
The first and second movies both became box office hits, with the 2008 movie 鈥淜ung Fu Panda鈥 becoming the sixth-highest grossing movie of the year and 鈥淜ung Fu Panda 2鈥 becoming the fifteenth-highest grossing movie of 2011, according to .听
The 鈥淧anda鈥 film series has been part of a turnaround for animation studio DreamWorks. The studio scored big early on with the 鈥淪hrek鈥 films, which were fairy tale parodies that often poked fun at rival Disney. But the studio struggled after that to find other successful properties that scored with both audiences and critics 鈥 the 鈥淢adagascar鈥 series did well at the box office but wasn鈥檛 as well-received by reviewers. By contrast, when 鈥淧anda鈥 arrived in 2008, it did well with the average moviegoer and critics, and the studio soon followed this success with 鈥淗ow to Train Your Dragon,鈥 which also received both critical acclaim and huge box office success.
The studio is still producing some misses 鈥 the recent movies 鈥淭urbo鈥 and 鈥淢r. Peabody and Sherman鈥 weren鈥檛 well-reviewed 鈥 but the studio currently has some beloved properties with its 鈥淧anda鈥 and 鈥淒ragons鈥 series, and the DreamWorks animation team recently won a Technical Achievement Academy Award for their foliage animation.