| Kung Fu Panda 2 | The Hangover 2 | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | The first Kung Fu Panda grossed $215 million, so that's 215 million reasons for it to win this round. | Oh wait, the first Hangover grossed $277 million, 62 million more reasons to win this round. | Drink some extra water, because The Hangover clearly wins this round. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Animation
Rated PG for sequences of martial arts action and mild violence.
| Comedy
Rated R for pervasive language, strong sexual content including graphic nudity, drug use, and brief violent images.
| Get some extra rest before watching Kung Fu Panda 2 win this round for the non-corrupting genre. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "Prepare for the return of awesomeness"
This sounds like a good tagline for a Kung Fu movie and uses the word awesomeness to indicate the humor in the film. I get it.
3/5
| "The Wolfpack is back."
People want to see a second movie about these characters, so the tagline gives them what they want.
4/5
| Take some extra vitamins as The Hangover scores its second point. |
| Best Part of Trailer | It looked cute. I liked the parade dragon gag. | It looked funny. Screaming in frustration is always funny. | Avoid caffeine as The Hangover 2 scores yet another point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | The voice of Jack Black from The School of Rock and King Kong. | Bradley Cooper from Limitless, The A-team, and Alias. | Drink Gatorade while Bradley Cooper wins this round. (Seriously check out Alias- great show). |
| Best Cast | The voices of Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, and Victor Garber (from Alias!). | Ed Helms (The Office), Zach Galifianakis (Due Date), Justin Bartha (National Treasure), and Mike Tyson. | Since the first cast is just voices, it can't out right win. Both movies will split the point. (And perhaps take a pain reliever, but watch out for mixing those with alcohol). |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Jennifer Yuh has been on the animation and art departments on a ton of animated movies. | Director Todd Phillips has also directed Due Date, The Hangover, and Old School. | Get some exercise with Todd Phillips as he runs away with this point. |
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