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5 June 2008 2:55 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Over the last decade, the outpouring of Pixar-imitating Cgi comedies about wacky mismatched animal pals (The Wild, Madagascar, Over The Hedge, Shark Tale, Surf's Up, Ice Age, Chicken Little, Open Season, etc.) has occasionally felt like the output of an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters, all banging out more or less the same thing. But as in the famous thought experiment, the infinite typing monkeys may have finally produced their Hamlet, or at least as close to one as the genre will allow. Kung Fu Panda is yet another celebrity-voiced animal adventure, but it stands out from the crowd of similar films with its lightning wit and whirlwind brio. Jack Black voices the eponymous character, a fat, gluttonous panda named Po, who labors joylessly in his father's noodle shop (his dad is a goose, for some reason) while obsessing over the world of...

Tasha Robinson

26 May 2008 9:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Neither the new album by Free Kitten, the long-running on-and-off second band of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, nor Sonic Youth's latest missive from their own experimentally minded Syr label will likely appeal to anyone who likes Sonic Youth for writing songs with weird tunings, but they're worth hearing for those who love their more outré outings. Half of them are, anyway. Inherit is the more overtly song-like of the two, with Gordon's murmured vocals and the slow-rise guitar buzzes and hums as jammy as they are hooky. It crests nicely enough, but its casualness is sometimes just slack. The big exception is "Surf's Up," which rides buzzing, classic-rock guitar leads that eventually wash to shore somewhere different than they began. J'Accuse Ted Hughes has a similar overall effect, though its means are different. The 23-minute title track was recorded live at the All Tomorrow's Parties...

Michaelangelo Matos

2 articles from 2008