Kung Fu Hustle Soundtrack

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Kung Fu Hustle Soundtrack

Kung Fu Hustle Soundtrack

In a flourishing career filled with animation projects, John Powell is a man who will seemingly never run out of musical ideas. Scores for Bolt, Horton Hears a Who!, Happy Feet, Robots, Shrek, The Road to El Dorado and Antz have proved his boundless creativity even as they have aided the evolution of his own distinct compositional voice since he departed from Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs happily continues the trend with a score bubbling over with warm charisma and lovable energy, soaring with support of full orchestra and choir. The overall sound of the production will be very familiar to collectors of the man’s music, but the distinct appeal of his themes (carried over from his equally entertaining Ice Age 2: The Meltdown) and the memorable style with which they are orchestrated and developed make the score as fresh and enjoyable as any Powell score to date.

Ice Age 3 Soundtrack Neatly Avoids Slapstick Pitfalls

It being a score for an animated comedy, however, there is certainly a fair amount of “mickey mousing” in the music, a scurrying, zany stop-and-go momentum in the music which is perfectly timed to the slapstick events on screen, but potentially fragmented and disjointed as a standalone experience on album.