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I wonder if it means something that the poster for Kung Fu Panda looks so much like the poster for You Don't Mess With the Zohan.
Well, I've been thinking, and have found many more eerie similarities between the two upcoming films:
1. They're both comedies. Or at least attempting to be.
2. One features a cartoon main character (voiced by Jack Black); the other a cartoonish man-boy (Adam Sandler).
3. Both are fish-out-of-water tales: Israeli Zohan fakes his death in order to pursue his dream of becoming a hairstylist; lazy waiter -- and panda -- Po wants nothing more than to be a kung fu fighter. But have you looked at a panda lately? Built nothing like a kung fu fighter.
And, yeah, that's about where the similarities end. Which begs the question: Why is Adam Sandler with the kung fu moves and splits in the campaign for this movie? What does that have to do with styling hair? Or with being Israeli? Yeah, they lost me at "He'll Blow You Away."
Kung Fu Panda's campaign, on the other hand, is pretty much perfect. They use fortune cookies and Jackie Chan's sensei monkey to just the right extent. I'm not thrilled with the word "Pandamonium," but you use what you have, I guess.
The moral of this story is: You might copy another film's poster, but we will not believe that your movie will be as good, Adam Sandler. You've sort of had your day; now would you mind going away?
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