Oh, I'd be willing to GUARANTEE its because Chris Farley is dead. Jack Black's entire career outside of Tenacious D, that is.

Apparently crocodiles need spiked armor!
and panda's wear pants!
why do i bother living in a world of armor wearing reptiles and pants wearing marsupials!?!?!?!?

BACK IN MY DAY, BODACIOUS HAD TO DO WITH BODIES
as in
Body+licous = Bodacious

70% of the people who play this will be kids. The other 30% will be achievement whores on the 360.

@Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: Let us all be glad those days are long gone.

@Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: Pandas are not marsupials! You are thinking koalas, also known as Drop Bears in Australian due to their tendency to wait in trees and drop down on people's heads, killing them.

@Mike Fahey: This is true. More people die from Koala bear falling deaths each year than car crashes, plane crashes, and D.B.O.'s (Devoured By Oprah) combined!

Oh how I miss Farley..

"Its ok Richard, they have a thin candy shell"

"Your brain has a thin candy shell"

@Mike Fahey & Modus_Operandi : Instantly killing them or a slow and painful death?

@NotAZombie: It depends on which end falls on you...

I almost considered giving this a chance, and then you said Jack Black. Dear GOD, I cannot stand that guy. Now I'm going to get out of here before I start to rage.

Can't be worse then the last Panda Fighting game. Brutal: Paws of Fur(r)y.

I won't get this, as I'm poor and there's a lot of better stuff to be bought, but I think that main picture looks cool.

I mean, Tekken rip-off!

I saw a test screening of this a couple of months ago. The animation was only about 40% done at the time with the rest in animatics but all of the dialogue and story was done. It was the worst pile of crap I have ever seen. I like some of Jack Black's stuff, but this was just pain bad. it's about a Panda (JB) who's father is a duck (still can't figure that one... no mention of adoption or anything)who owns a noodle restaurant and dreams of one day his only son (a freaking Panda) will one day take it over. Our protagonist panda has other plans. He dreams of becoming a Kung-Fu master. It was just a train wreck of stupidity. If they had told me what the movie was I would have saved an hour and a half of my life and not gone. If I ever see that ass clown that was hading out the passes and hinting to people that it was a screening for The Bee movie to get people to show up, I am whoopin his ASS!!

What hath Activision wrought?

@Mr.SithNinja: Sounds like a vague ripoff of Tampopo, the first noodle western.

What was that Panda called from the Sly cooper series? that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this...

"Because Chris Farley is dead"

... Best summary of Jack Black's career I have ever heard.

Somewhat sadly, I will probably see this movie and rent the game. One of the advisers for the film is an instructor in my martial arts lineage, and I'm curious to see if some of the forms I've learned are shown.

Probably won't even see the movie... The Forbidden Kingdom looks far more amusing. And CG Gong Fu is one of the least impressive things ever, even when played for laughs.

We don't know much about this movie, but the trailer is looking kind of interesting. I'm not going to write this one off just yet... it could be pretty kick ass if done right.

@Pombar:

How do you compare Kung Fu Panda with Forbidden Kingdom?? That's like comparing Bambi with Saving Private Ryan. Get it together. Too quick to judge.

@ Farley remark: Jack Black is a huge knock off of Farley, but what the hell you going to do, I personally think that Kevin James is much more of an imitator than Jack. In the end, if they make you laugh, good stuff...but if they don't...off with their heads.

Activision will love to ruin the movie..

At least nobody expects the DS version to have surround sound.

I can't shake the feeling there's something vaguely racist about this whole movie premise.

I like kung fu movies, I like pandas, I like animation, I like video games. It sounds like regardless of quality I am destined to experience this, hopefully it doesn't hurt too much.

And how the hell have I missed knowing anything about Forbidden Kingdom! Jackie Chan and Jet Li in a story about the monkey king? The universe has indeed split apart and shown me its secrets. Somebody make that video game.

I'd be excited for the DS version at the very least if it wasn't for the fact that VV went brain dead apparently and turned the Bee Movie DS game into one huge fetch quest.

Actually, Chris Farley's death is more responsible for Mike Myers being Shrek.

Err, Kuma's alternate outfit?
Also, fuck Chris Farley and Jack Black.

@Modus_Operandi: The rest die from redback spiders, jellyfish and poison dart sea shells.

Australia, even the seashells will not only kill you but chase you half way down the beach to do it. I love this place

@Mr.SithNinja: Wait, so you were *enticed* by the prospect of seeing Bee Movie? Isn't that sort of like a dentist trying to get you come in for a root canal by saying he needs to fill a cavity?

Or a guy who gets you to drink a glass of piss by saying it's Mountain Dew?

@erlik: Hey, I only fell for the Mountain Dew thing once. Now I sniff before I sip. XD

Pack of haters---the lot of you. :D

@Mr.SithNinja: Actually, I can't tell the difference by sniffing. Or drinking.

And yes, I mean that MD is piss, not that I have no sense of smell or taste. ;-)

Anyone who hates Jack Black needs 100cc's of Tenacious D, stat!