Kung-Fu Panda vs Wall-E:Academy Award Nominations

The Animated feature film section in is hotting up as Kung-Fu Panda has joined the race after bagging all the top honours in the recently concluded "ANNIE AWARDS". Where Kung-Fu Panda won 11 awards, Wall-E went home with none. Now this seems to be very interesting. Wall-E was said to be the best animation movie of 2008 and was also rumoured to be nominated for Best Picture along with Slumdog Millionaire & Co. and it's script is nominated for Best Screenplay (Original) which bears testimony to the fact that it was the front runner among the 3 movies that got nominated in Best Animated Picture category in Oscar this year,the other two being Kung-Fu Panda and Bolt. I am not going to talk about Bolt coz i haven't watched it and I don't think it was better than it's counterparts as far as Box-office collection is concerned.

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Personally i liked both Kung-Fu Panda and Wall-E. Wall-E's script is much more smarter than Kung-Fu Panda. Wall-E even goes on to take inspiration from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey were the computer tries to dictate over mankind and the famous soundtrack “Also Sprach Zarathusthra” was heard in last part of the movie. Even people leaving in space experienced loss of bones due to their laziness is an absolutely great inclusion in a script written by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon.

The garbage covering the whole earth seemed so real as the present world is facing crisis like this and also warning us about our future and how can one forget Wall-E's sidekick "Roach"? Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman's song "We are coming down" is very refreshing and it will competing with the likes of “Jai Ho” and “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire in the Best Song Category.

But the high point of Wall-E was the chemistry between Wall-E and Eve and their voices well mastered by sound designer Ben Burtt who also laid his voice for Wall-E. The detailing, the designs were absolutely great and Pixar has left no stone unturned to place it among the top movies of 2008. The script of Wall-E is too good but it will be facing tough competition from flicks like In Bruges, Happy go Lucky,Milk and Frozen River. Can't comment on what is going to happen coz i am still left to see those movies.

Kung-Fu Panda on the other hand is another well made movie with loads of fun and slam-bang action featuring stunning voices of Jack Black(Giant Panda), Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan & Co. Kung-Fu Panda is a fast movie compared to Wall-E. The action sequences were well executed and Dream works needs to be applauded for that. One thing I like about Kung-Fu Panda is it makes one believe in ones ability.

Remember the Scroll of the Dragon Warrior which believed to have secret powers but at the end of the day there was none as Po’s father said that there is no secret recipe.It’s actually you need to believe in it.That was really something that instills faith in us.Makes us believe. Kung-Fu panda really lived upto the expectations as far as wittiness is concerned.Wit and only wit is the most important factor in a script of an Animation movie.

Wall-E uses a technique which seems much tougher than Kung-Fu Panda as Andrew Stanton and Co. had to deal with various models of robots,landscape and the the model of Wall-E robots was a great concept and models like those can really be incepted to recycle garbage in future.Surely a great concept for the robot manufacturers!!!

A Robot cleaning waste in a lonely earth and then falling in love and travelling to space seems a better concept than Kung-Fu fanatic training to vanquish evil that's why my vote goes to Wall-E as it dealt with life in earth and space,global crisis and more importantly the love story of Wall-E and Eve which was very special for the movie fanatics like me last year.