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Heroes:past,presentandfuture
HEROES COME IN many forms. From an makes it his mission to change Hancock’s
unpopular, melancholy superhero to an awk- image and have the public cheering him.
ward panda bear with the heart of a warrior, Kung Fu Panda. Po (voiced by Jack Black),
many of the movies available this November a portly, clumsy panda bear, becomes an
and December at your local Costco ware- unlikely kung fu hero when a treacherous
house and at
www.costco.ca have heroes enemy spreads chaos throughout the country-
g alore. Nearly all titles are availa ble in DVD s ide in this animated martial arts adventure.
a nd Blu-ray Disc. E xpertkung fufighters, the Furious
F ive—Tigress (Angelina Jolie),
C rane (David Cross), Mantis
( Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu),
M onkey (Jackie Chan) and their T
heDarkKnight.Inthissequelto Int Batman
wise sensei, Master Shifu (Dustin Begins, Bruce Wayne–Batman (Christian Bale)
H offman)—all draw on their vast continues his war on crime in Gotham City.
knowledge of fighting skills in order Just as Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon
t o transform a lumbering panda (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey
i nto a lethal fighting machine. Dent (Aaron Eckhart) appear to be making
G et Smart. This film is based on headway in their tireless battle against the
t he popular 1960s television comedy criminal element, they find themselves prey to
s eries of the same title. When world a rising criminal mastermind known as the
Hancock.John Jo Hancock (Wil l Smith) is an o rder as we know it is threatened, Joker (Heath Ledger). The struggle between
unhappy superhero. He has saved many lives in Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), an inexperi- these forces thrusts Gotham City into anarchy
Los Angeles over the years, but in the process he enced analyst, is promoted to Special Agent 86. and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine
tends to damage much of the city. Consequently, The chief of super spy agency CONTROL line between hero and vigilante.
the public has had enough of Hancock. This (Alan Arkin) teams Smart with Agent 99 (Anne Also look for Mama Mia!, Horton Hears a
leaves him depressed. But when he saves Ray Hathaway), an experienced spy, to thwart a Who, Wanted, The Incredible Hulk and the
Embrey (Jason Bateman), a PR executive, diabolical plot hatched by the super crime complete multi-season package of the TV
from being run over by a train, the executive organization KAOS. series The Sopranos.—Will Fifield
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