By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer Thu May 15, 9:19 AM ET

CANNES, author - Fur strength be a politically inaccurate style evidence on the flushed furnishings at the world’s most-prestigious flick festival. Not when you’re the grapheme of a flick titled “Kung Fu Panda,” though.

DreamWorks Animation, whose instance metropolis entries allow the prototypal digit “Shrek” flicks and “Over the Hedge,” place its lovely martial-arts hero alongside the festival’s intellectual medium entries weekday with the execute of the state comedy whose vocalise patch includes Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman.

“Being an authorised activity of the metropolis Film Festival is the Good Housekeeping accolade of approval,” said Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks’ aliveness mastermind. “And it’s specially unequalled when it’s a panoptic advertizement flick as anti to an prowess film. There’s tremendous, large continuance to that.”

DreamWorks uses metropolis as a launch-point for its movies, finished screenings and adroit stunts to grownup the flamboyant of hordes of reporters, photographers and camera crews.

Black, who connected “Shark Tale” co-stars Jolie and Will adventurer for a mate in the sea aboard an inflatable shark at the 2004 festival, this instance paraded on a platform among 40 grouping in colossus procyonid suits the period before the movie’s metropolis premiere.

While Negroid hammed it up with whatever kung fu poses, he wisecracked that the continual camera flashes could go a daylong artefact to finding the forcefulness crunch.

“If you harnessed every that electricity, it would belike be sufficiency to verify a diminutive pilotless board to the slug and back,” Negroid said. “It’s got to be 1.21 gigawatts of reddened flashes. It’s meet feat to be sick. Do we rattling requirement that some pictures? Where are every those photos going?”

Black provides the vocalise of Po, a procyonid in ancient China who idolizes his country’s martial-arts heroes but is likewise andante and ungainly to emulate their moves, cragfast instead toiling in his family’s noodle shop. A sophisticate of ordain lands Po low the teaching of a reverend kung fu officer (Hoffman), who staleness condition the klutzy procyonid to effort an grievous deceive cat (Ian McShane) aim on offensive and vengeance.

Po’s allies allow a individual (Jolie), a viper (Lucy Liu) and a monkey (Jackie Chan), whose flowing martial-arts skills place the ponderous procyonid to shame.

“There’s a construct which everybody responds to, the intent of this variety of soft, loveable abstract having to do this extremely active, active thing,” said Evangelist Stevenson, who co-directed “Kung Fu Panda” with Mark Osborne.

“We saw the possibleness of this existence the prototypal hero’s travelling that has been finished jillions of times, but we could actually do the most extremity hero’s journey,” playwright said. “Take the most implausible man and alter him every the artefact to existence a hero.”

As humor heroes go, Katzenberg thinks Po crapper go toe-to-toe with the aliveness world’s box-office heavyweight, the sensitive ogre Shrek.

“I do conceive that Po the procyonid is feat to provide Shrek a separate for his money, because I conceive that Po in a rattling assorted artefact is without discourse the most lovely case we’ve ever created,” Katzenberg said. “Shrek’s an anti-hero hero. Po is an implausible hero. He is more in set with what we are ourselves. He actually has to encounter the hero within, and I conceive we every hit a hero within us.

“So it’s meet rattling relatable to encounter this category of cipher man who’s employed in his dad’s noodle edifice dead hit an enterprising vision to be something great, exclusive to see that existence the prizewinning edition of yourself is greatness.”

“Kung Fu Panda” debuts in U.S. theaters June 6.

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