Kung Fu Panda

2008 Directed by Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

Prepare for awesomeness.

When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave warrior won't be easy. It's up to Master Shifu and the Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- to give it a try.

Jack Black Dustin Hoffman Angelina Jolie Jackie Chan Lucy Liu David Cross Randall Duk Kim James Hong Dan Fogler Ian McShane Seth Rogen Michael Clarke Duncan Wayne Knight Kyle Gass JR Reed Laura Kightlinger Tanya Haden Stephen Kearin Mark Osborne John Stevenson Jeremy Shipp Melissa Cobb Kent Osborne Emily Burns Stephanie Harvey Riley Osborne

Alternative Titles

쿵푸 팬더, 쿵푸팬더, กังฟูแพนด้า 1 : จอมยุทธพลิกล็อค ช็อคยุทธภพ, 功夫熊貓

family adventure comedy animation

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Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★½ 12

Wtf why this movie so damn good? It's absolutely stunning from an animation perspective and delivers a story with a surprising amount of emotional heft. Incredible fight scenes, great characters, striking colors, the works. One of the best DreamWorks movies by far
Review by CinemaClown ★★★★ 1

One of the finest films to come out of DreamWorks Animation's canon and certainly their funniest film to date, Kung Fu Panda is an energetic blend of kinetic direction, smart writing, sparkling wit, vibrant camerawork, tight editing, first-rate animation & exuberant score that not only works as a downright hilarious comedy but also as a thrilling action extravaganza & a fascinating coming-of-age story.
Set in ancient China, which is populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the story of Kung Fu Panda follows a cheeky, clumsy & squishy giant panda named Po who aspires of becoming a kung fu master. His wish is granted when he's unexpectedly proclaimed as Dragon Warrior who will fulfil an ancient prophecy but finds himself to be the subject of…
Review by ☆ Sophie ☆ ★★★★ 6

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'Kung Fu Panda' is an unexpectedly enjoyable and fun movie. One of the best comedy movies I've seen, this animation feature is both packed with action and intelligent at the same time. It's yet another variation on "You can do anything if you believe in yourself" and carries strong morale and educational message. But the way it's done, the incredible visual side of the story, as well as the dialogs, is just amazing. You can't but love the fat Panda boy who's dreaming about being the greatest warrior of all China only to wake up to the reality of having to serve noodle soup in his father's shop. Hans Zimmer and John Powell team up…
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★

"We often meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it."
My favorite Dreamworks film. Intelligent message about secret ingredients and dragon scrolls and their relation to the misleading psychoanalytics of identity and desire.
Review by dion🌹 ★★★★½

watching this movie as a child i recall adoring it therefore I assumed my opinion was probably blinded by nostalgia and i wouldn’t like it as much. i was wrong. it holds up so well and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought i would. hopefully the other two are just as good. also never related to anything more than poe only doing good when there’s food involved
Review by Cinemonster ★★★★ 7

Kung Fu Panda is a breath-takingly animated film that is at once a loving homage to a variety of martial-art film moments and a tender look at a relationship in a single parent household between a father (James Hong) and son (Jack Black as the title panda). Character design, voice talent and action pieces are vibrant and supremely executed. I can't stress enough how fantastic the voice cast is.
There are few animated features that can match K.F.P. for wit, humor and creativity. The panda, Po, states in the opening that there is no charge for awesomeness and attractiveness. I paid $8 to see it in the theatre, and $15 for the blu-ray. Your false claim aside, it was well worth it Po.
Review by 🌻 lindsay 🌻 ★★★★ 5

Okay but this is really really good? I can’t believe I slept on this for so long. The animation is so beautiful like those shots of the sunset were stunning.
The action scenes were really well done and entertaining and there were a lot of them. But they were all so different that it didn’t feel repetitive.
Sometimes the comedy didn’t work well for me but other than that... I might be a kung fu standa
Review by Ruben ★★★★ 2

Emotional
Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 1

The Kung Fu Panda is my daughter’s Chaplin.
Review by reibureibu ★★★★½ 7

Kung Fu Panda the movie is much like its kung fu panda Po: unassuming, easily dismissed, a laughable concept. This is a movie about a panda who learns kung fu, voiced by Jack Black and animated by DreamWorks; what was I expecting, a miracle?
And that's exactly what I got, a literal masterpiece where the animated nature of the film complements the Chinese aesthetic perfectly, where shadow-puppetry and and woodblock prints and scroll paintings are infused and blended completely with the computer-generated imagery, an art direction and production design so well-crafted it took years of research to bring about, fusing high- and low-brow cinema seamlessly considering that's exactly what martial arts movies have historically done (fittingly inspired by the likes…
Review by JacobSilverman ★★★★ 1

77%
It’s rare to have seen the sequel to a film before seeing the original. But that’s exactly what I did with Kung Fu Panda. 2 years ago I went on a cruise with my family. There was a TV in the room that we stayed in and there was a cycle that repeated every couple of nights. One night, when I couldn’t sleep, Kung Fu Panda 2 came on and I had a ton of fun. It took me quite some time to watch this film, but I am glad as I liked it even more than the second.
Kung Fu Panda is a really nice animated film. I don’t necessarily have anything super negative to say, but I…
Review by I. Simon ★★★ 8

The visual craft is so creatively inspired (the animation itself holds up pretty well for the most part, considering that this came out in 2008. And how about those fight sequences!) that it almost makes up for what is, in my opinion, a fairly formulaic/thin script. Solid vocal performances, too.

Recent reviews

Review by Mattias Cilia ★★★★★ 1

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I watched this movie when I was younger, but honestly after all these years, I had forgotten the plot. I'm giving this masterpiece a 5 out of 5, for one simple reason. This is a movie which if you watch and listen closely, has the best lessons of life i've ever seen in a movie. Oogway reflects a lot on Master Yoda, from the Star Wars franchise. Wise, old and looking for someone to take his place after he is gone. In this case, it is the Dragon Warrior. Shifu is by far my favourite character of this movie. In the first act, he's troubled and very stressed when he sees Po as the chosen warrior. He wants one of…
Review by Sherlyson Memória ★★★★★

amo esse filmes por motivos de: assisti ele praticamente minha infância toda.
resumindo: esse filme é uma show de bolisse total
obs: a dublagem brasileira esmurra tanto a dublagem original (desculpa jack black)
Review by steviewigles ★★★

I told my grandma the “yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That is why they call it present” line from Oogway and she said “Aw that’s so sweet where is it from?” And i smiled up at her in my annoying 9 year old smile and said “Kung Fu Panda”.
Sorry grandma.
Review by BradE ★★★★

A fun movie with a great cast and an awesome villain. Easily Dreamworks’ best series.
Review by Ethan Johnson

Still holds up. The score and animation are so good, the Oogway ascends scene almost made me tear up
Review by RhinoRampage ★★★½

better po than poe dameron in shitty stars wars movie fuck star wars movie kung fu panda better better better than star wars shitty disney movie dreamworks better than stupid disney company shitty dumb disney company kung fu panda good very good good
Review by Aiaan Makarov ★★★★½

это как встреча с лучшим другом, которого сколько лет не видел и новостей набралось МНОГО. не знаю, как вы, но "Кунг-фу Панду" пересматривал МНОГО раз, причём, только экранку на пиратском dvd и каждую ебаную фразу, каждую ебаную сцену помню хронологически, и когда пересматривал мультфильм, мне хотелось только плакать. дубляж царский, экшен запредельный, вместо надоевшего Карла Дугласа Илья, мать вашу, Лагутенко. чего ещё. с короткометражками до сиквела такая же фигня.
ну лучший же, лучший у Дримворксов.
единственное "но" вообще называть не буду.
Review by bragehovik ★★★

Going
Review by davepickels ★★★★

Funny, great family film. Age 6+
Review by Michael Cantrell ★★★★

Saw this dvd on the shelf in my family's condo in Tahoe. I threw it on spontaneously, and gradually both my wife and my parents joined me as I watched it.
Most of what I got out of this movie was nostalgia, but overall I was definitely not disappointed. I completely unironically love all of the action scenes in the entire movie.
Review by Allan_Nicholas ★★★★

Una divertida película que narra la historia de un personaje común, como cualquiera de nosotros, que sueña con algún día ser algo más de lo que es.
Kung fu panda, transforma ese sueño en realidad de una forma muy divertida, con un humor "tragicómico" que te cautiva mucho, y con unos remates bastante certeros y divertidos, llevados de la mano por un personaje te hace sentir muy identificado durante cada segundo.
Review by Gabriel ★★★★

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