Why Kung Fu Panda is an Unexpected Masterpiece
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Fun fact: Originally Po was supposed to be more of a jerk. But DreamWorks made his character more likeable once they heard that Jack Black would be voicing him.
I am glad they changed the direction of Po
@@msk-qp6fn agreed
What can they do? Jack Black is too loveable and his voice is too nice and playful to be an actual bad guy-
*Sees the mario movie trailer*
Um, nvm 😰
@@mr.regular589 bowser is generally a lovable kinda goofy villain, Jack Black is honestly one of the best people to voice him.
Well that's a relief then. The last thing we needed to this excellent movie was another Oscar or another Merida
Schaff realizing that the only thing holding back this analysis from being a perfect masterpiece was the lack of flowers and deciding to take down his own video pretending to be dreamworks to correct his mistake will forever be my head cannon. No matter how much they say otherwise
Facts
@卐-MRBEAST IS A ƝᓮᎶᎶᕮᖇ-卐 That is uhhh quite the spam bot
@卐-MRBEAST IS A ƝᓮᎶᎶᕮᖇ-卐 ...what...?
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@Pete Harrison ok
Schaff: talks positively about a dreamworks movie
Dreamworks: delete now
Schaff: adds flowers
Ohhh so that's why there's flowers lol
Dreamworks: Whoa whoa whoa, this isn't how you play the game.
@@User-qp6cw *game over* gets copy written
I thought the flowers were for how kung fu panda was such a masterpiece.
ironically i didn't notice them at all until i read this comment
Fun fact: this movie was so good and well-received in China that it started debates about how a Western film could make a film set in Chinese culture better than China could.
I'm not really surprised. China basically burned their culture to the ground. You can find more of "China" from surrounding countries like Taiwan or Japan more than China itself. Yes I'm aware saying these will anger CCP drones.
That’s really interesting heh
@@voidresident_m4r127 if you want a dive into this subject, accented cinema has a stellar video on kung fu panda and it's cultural impact. It's titled "Why China cared about Kung Fu Panda."
In the back of my Chinese class there’s a shelf where the teacher keeps movies that we’d sometimes watch in class, and Kung Fu Panda is the only one there that wasn’t Chinese. Just to show how respectful and impactful the film was.
是的
The reason Po doesn’t eat the dumpling is actually a callback to when Oogway found Po under the peach tree and he says “I eat when I’m upset.” It shows that Po finally feels confident and that he belongs
Truly a beautiful masterpiece of a movie
I've seen this movie so many times and never made that connection. Thank you sir
Both over thinking it. I'm not hungry was a quick way of saying, I don't need to be baited with food to do kung fu no more. He was being forced to complete training in order to eat. Now the kungfu is the reward, not the dumpling.
@@Turtleswan Not entirely, he still uses that to get the Dragon scroll; He had to imagine that it was a cookie.
It's really just a callback to how he is no longer upset about the the Dragon warrior.
Wow I never knew that thank you
I always figured Po saying “I’m not hungry” to mean that until then he’d only been able to do Kung Fu when motivated by food, but now he’s able to do it without even being hungry.
I always thought it was the fact that he was upset, as Oogway said he eats when he is upset,but when he rejects the food, it shows that Po is satisfiyed with his training
I took it as him being a stress eater who ate his negative emotions until he finally gained confidence in himself.
@kung Fu panda WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING
WHO
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Fudge, fell right for it
Master Shifu actually enjoys himself during the dumpling fight. It's a small moment, yet such a heartwarming one..
Probably the most fun he had, since training Tai Lung!
And i believe the first time he smiled in a long time as well!! (earlier scenes had one of the furious five sharing how shifu doesnt smil anymore after his backstory)
33:36
I like how po's silhouette is him seemingly dressed as a master, then turns out he was just wearing an apron and a big pot, symbolizing how he became a kung fu master through his own ways.
100% epic
It’s sad how Dreamworks’ copyright stuff actively prevents people from speaking positively about their franchises
THE BOTS IN THE REPLIES WON’T STFU
What are all these links to?
@@kimifw58 Probably something that'll steal your information/download a virus to your device. I'd recommend not clicking any link in a comment section. It is how it is
Greedy Companies are always like this,I mean Toei Animation nearly destroyed Totally not Mark’s channel
@@lockerbuddy2039 they're just shitty videos lol
I really liked how wen Tai Lung finally got a hold of the scroll, he opened it and saw the reflection and said: “it’s nothing.” Which is honestly a clever way of showing how insecure Tai Lung because of how he placed all of his self-worth in being the Dragon Warrior. I just think it was a really nice touch.
That would be a great argument if Sifu and Po himself didn't also say something along the lines of "It's empty" before Po realized the truth
@@dayangh9997 doesn't that prove their argument still? both po and shifu in that moment were of the mind that they could never defeat tai lung by their own means, and that the dragon scroll would be the silver bullet to solve their problem. in essence, they themselves didn't really hold merit, so much as their ability to be a vehicle for the dragon scroll ("worthy" by the standards of some some outside judgment/source of affirmation). their attitude wrt the dragon scroll is still in line with that of tai lung's crushing lack of self worth
Or maybe he was expecting something to be there and wasn't focused on the reflection
@@dayangh9997 there is a difference between saying "it's nothing" and "It's empty".
Someone in a comment section said something along the lines of "if its empty it can be filled, but if it's nothing then it's nothing."
Something like that anyway I'm too stupid to remember exactly what they said.
@@dayangh9997 except Sifu is the one who made Tai Lung believe that the dragon scroll had to be something so him expecting it also works. And then there’s Po who also didn’t believe in himself expecting the dragon scroll to be something also based off of Siri and it being nothing until he figured out what it meant
Fun fact: Po's fighting style seems to be loosely based on the Drunken Fist fighting style which focuses on unpredictable strikes and the movements of a drunken person it's pretty effective against those who have never faced it and po can basically not die as he can just come back from the spirit realm at will
not exactly, he sent himself there trough a technique and then came back at will, dying is a whole different thing
@@lucky6961 Dying is just your soul being sent to the spirit realm and because Po has a complete mastery of Chi he can enter and exit the spirit realm as he pleases
@@Mori_712 that's literally what I said
@@turbogamer2023 yeah but his body dissapeared and oogway aged to know that insisting in living forever would prevent another star from shining but also most likely make him go mad, there's a time you gotta go
Conclusion: He can beat Goku.
So we're not going to talk about how Sifu is literally another type of Panda, or Oogway is a tortoise. Both reflections of Po and the impossibility of either of them being masters.
The five are all ideal animals to be kung Fu masters, dangerous and fast predators, just like Tai Lung, but all of the true masters are not
The point of the movie is to show how the physical advantages fall lesser the mental advantages and patience it takes to become a true master in the art of Kung-Fu. Po was a fat Panda who overcame the mental barriers of being shunned by everyone he has looked up to and became truly mentally stable (hence the theme of inner peace in Kung-Fu panda 2 and also the reoccurring theme of Chi and even the reflection shown in the dragon scroll.
Ti lung was physical advanced but do to his unethical motive he was limited in power.
@@matthewbartlett3442 you mean the Praying mantis? An incredibly effective predator, some of which even prey on small birds. Yeah, even the bug.
Red Pandas are not real pandas and are related to another type of mammal
Bro one of the five is a bug
@@chknnuggies preying mantis is an alpha predator
I like how after Po lays out his insecurities to Shifu, we see that Tigress heard the whole thing and finally started to feel sorry for him, and realized he was actually taking Kung Fu seriously, not "treating it like a joke."
I really love moments like that
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I was having a dejavu moment for a minute, like I thought that did I watched this like a week ago but it's just DreamWorks doing its thing.
“I’m not hungry” probably comes from the scene where Po’s talking with Oogway, where he explains that he eats when he’s upset. He also says this to Shifu when caught breaking into the pantry.
Po tossing the dumpling back and saying he wasn’t hungry was likely a way to say because he succeeded in his training, he doesn’t feel upset anymore in his training and found himself as the Dragon Warrior.
Finally a worthy opponent , our battle will be legendary
That's exactly my observation
@Pete Harrison It's shit.
*everybody loved that*
I also like to think it goes back to Shifu's quote before the training "When you have been trained, you may eat", where Po still has a lot to learn and thus doesn't eat at that point.
Knowing crane's and viper's backstory it makes sense that they treat po the nicest since they went through similar experiences
When is their backstory
@@pedroconstantino1364 oh ok thank you for telling me 👍
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@@arielnatalene3006 Monkey's backstory can be summed up with 'Mmm... Monke'.
@@arielnatalene3006wait I didn't see the reply can you tell me
I remember this was mentioned in another review. When Tai Lung looks at the scroll and the scroll is showing his reflection, he says, “It’s nothing!” and Po explains to Tai Lung and ends it with “It’s just you,” and smiles at his reflection in the scroll. It’s really clever how it shows that Po already had what it took to be the dragon warrior, and so the scroll just showed his reflection. There was nothing more for Po to get, and he just needed to accept himself.
And meanwhile, Tai Lung calling his reflection "nothing" also means that he sees himself as nothing.
@@CyberGrapeUK More like Po perceives the scroll as "blank" but Tai Lung perceives it as "nothing"
blank does not mean nothing. blank can be anything you want, a clean slate. and Po seeing it as blank, he chose to believe that he is what he is.
Oh yeah
@@Valigarmanda a blank canvas
this is literally explained in the movie why did you feel the need to comment
Thai Lung’s escape is made even more impressive when you consider that this isn’t just a prison but a prison designed SPECIFICALLY to keep him trapped. These guards were probably trained specifically to fight Thai Lung yet they are still taken out effortlessly.
And even moreso, the scene doesn't make the guards seem bad at their job - it's not "the guards slipped up, allowing Tai Lung to escape", or "the guards weren't good enough"; it was "Tai Lung cannot be stopped. This elite guard wasn't enough. We're doomed".
Tai lung was also in that position for years presumably. All the carnage he caused was done while he was technically rusty.
Indeed
I'm a bit late, but the reason Tai lung managed to escape was by using the feather of the messenger crane. The same messenger who wouldn't have been there if shifu didn't send him. Shifu wouldn't have made that decision, if he didnt hear oogways prophecy. In short, it was a self fulfilling prophecy
@@lookingforlove839 cut out the gigo and you get "self-fulfilling prophecy"
The other day, while I was out with a group of friends, someone said: You know what movie I like, even though it's for little children. Kung Fu Panda. And almost instantly the rest of the group was like: IT'S NOT FOR CHILDREN. IT IS A CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE. I think about that a lot.
I hate how people assume that Animation is a genre for kids, this is literally what the oscars did, and one of their nominess was an adult animated movie not for kids
It's a family movie.
My Dad Also Thinks That Animation is Mostly For Kids, But it Can be For Adults and For Everyone in General, and Kung Fu Panda is an Example of a Movie For Kids, Families, and Adults to Enjoy.
Little kids? People really don't get what is FOR little kids. Dora the explorer is for little kids, because grown ups don't enjoy it. But Disney and Dreamworks movies? They are family movies, for the entire family, all ages
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I always took Po refusing that dumpling as a sign that he's finally found a healthy confidence in himself. Before that point in the film, nearly every time he turned to food it was as an emotional crutch. Now that he finally feels like he's truly earned his place as a kung fu master (even if not quite the Dragon Warrior yet, he did just beat Shifu in a _tough_ fight), he doesn't _need_ the food the same way he did before.
Like Oogway said, he eats when he's upset
Not to mention the scene with Oogway where he states that he only eats when he's upset
Tai lungs entrance at the jade palace where he appears in front of shifu and the two silently stare each other down for a moment is absolutely insane
The fact that he appears in a flash of lightning is insane!
Something really cool about the whole trilogy that I never realized until my brother told me:
In the first movie, Tai Lung tests po physically.
In 2, Shen tests him mentally.
In 3, Kai tests him spiritually.
Amazing.
It's the best trilogy afterall
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I never noticed that about Po’s character before. That’s really impressive.
I wish Kai was a Komodo dragon so that it would be mammal,Bird,and reptile makes no sense but I like the variety aspect 😂
I mean, the 3rd one isn't really a test, but well they don't call that movie the weakest for nothing...
Can we talk about and appreciate how the animals used actually resemble their real-life counterparts' anatomy? I love how the animators didn't give them a human's anatomy like so many other animated films do. For example, it would've been so easy to emphasize that Tigress was a female by giving her either a human woman's body or even softening up her features to look more feminine.
YES YES YES!!! THE CHARACTER DESIGN IS PEAK
yup!! i love how they all just look like regular animals and how they aren’t too humanoid, the character designs are really well done
@SleepyWolf I mean I wouldn’t say it out loud but I agree with you
Indeed!
I noticed the design emphasis more of the face structure. It's really well done. Still maintain the animal featured yet still beautiful
You know what’s crazy? Since the scroll is reflective, it also symbolizes confidence/self worth. So ironically if you think about it, Tai lung already had the power of the scroll the whole time, and he won against everyone else he fought. I genuinely believe he could’ve redeemed himself had he realized the secret earlier, even if it is a tough pill to swallow for him. Also if you get sent to the spirit realm does that count as dying?
Tai Lung really has the potential for one of the best redemption arcs ever.
Technically you are dead if you're sent to the spirit realm
Genuinely, Tai Lung by all accounts could have been the Dragon Warrior if he just didn't doubt himself. And with the revelations of the spirit realm, I really feel like Po could find Tai Lung and bring him back as a force of good.
When he opened the scroll and saw his reflection, he exclaims "It's _nothing!"_ So basically, he called _himself_ nothing... because without the power the scroll would have supposedly given him, that's how he saw himself. He saw himself as nothing because even will all of his power and strength, he wasn't satisfied.
Tai Lung should've just left. He was already strong and practically learned everything Oogway and Shifu had to teach him. If he wanted to be known as the Dragon Warrior, he should've just went around calling himself the Dragon Warrior and then actually be the Dragon Warrior. Then who would stand up and disagree?
Oogway? Some old turtle who said he saw darkness in his heart?
I'm pretty sure It does count as dying yes, considering how they treat the spirit realm like it's some kind of afterlife in the 3rd movie, and oogway is there
When Tigress finished retelling the backstory of Tai Lung, I always notice how very sad she looks before she begins addressing Po directly. It says a lot considering how emotionally distant Tigress is in the rest of the movie, it's a very rare showing of vulnerability from a character that normally refrained from showing any, apart from the times where she was openly despising Po. Even when she returns to berating Po after the story is over, you can hear her voice cracking. She feels utterly robbed of everything. Of acceptance from her master, of the title of dragon warrior… she’s like a Tai Lung situation all over again. She gets why Shifu was so distant to her and the rest of the five, but it doesn’t make it hurt any less. And up to this point, Oogway’s choosing of Po to be Dragon Warrior was still somewhat inexplicable to a lot of them.
The movie does a really good job of striking its emotional cords very well, even subtly.
I don't think tigress was a re-run of the Tai Lung situation more that she more directly suffered the aftermath.
Where Tai Lung wanted recognition THROUGH power, as he'd been taught that the power of the dragon scroll would be how he'd achieve that, Tigress just wanted recognition period. Still not health or anything but not quite so unhinged as Tai Lung.
Agree
Yeah, honestly her portrayal alone makes me disagree with Schaff when he says that "The 5 are not fleshed out". She's probably my favourite side character of this first movie apart from Shifu (imho Oogway really shines only with the third chapter). The fact that they hint that she was the first of Shifu's students in the aftermath of Tai Lung destruction, and therefore experienced the brunt of Shifu's hardened ways, its uncaring nature that bordered mistreatment, made me think (and i hope that i'm not alone in that headcanon) that was the cause of hyperfocus on obtaining the dragon scroll, just so she could get told "Good job" by her master, just so she could get some recognition.
But then, the ceremony comes, and the wisest among the masters, the person who trained her master, chooses a civilian, someone who she sees as an incompetent buffoon, instead of her, the strongest amongst the five.
Of course Tigress hates Po, he's a daily reminder that her years of training brought her nothing, not even a hint of the love and recognition she wanted from her master.
And sure, Shifu hates him initially and feels that he's not worthy, but the point here is, that neither is she. And the fact that she belittles him the most imho really comes to that. The fact that someone else shares your imposter syndrome doesn't really help sometimes. Is bullying others for that wrong and selfish? Yes. Can you really blame her in her situation? I don't think so.
Again, maybe i'm reading too much into the character, but to me it's a really subtle tragic story, and another beautiful parallel and counterposition with the villain. And i think that the movie draws enough comparisons between her and Tai Lung and her and Po to at least consider this interpretation plausible.
Edit: added and claryfied a couple of points
Fun facts about this movie:
1: The 2d intro was animated by James Baxter, the same guy who made the Beauty and the Beast Ballroom scene.
2: In an in-universe interview, Shifu mentioned that the wushi finger hold was supposed to be for scaring students, he had no clue how Po did that
James Baxter also worked on adventure time
James Baxter also animated "Sanctuary!" and "Quasimodo gets accepted into the society" scenes for The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
That second one is super interesting! Do you have a link to that?
Must be Dragon Warrior Powers or something since Po is the only character who can do it (from what I remember?)
@@thatsdree1350 from what i recall, oogway did that to kai, who also knew about it and that it had a weakness
I always liked how Shifu, after being so stern and serious throughout the movie, really seemed to rediscover his fun side and enjoyment of Kung Fu when he was training and competing with Po. Po was able to bring out in Shifu what was lost when Tai Lung turned on him. Shifu seemed to find pride in Kung Fu again, a wholesome, playful, pride thanks to Po.
Yes!! That's literally what I always think when I see his expression in his face change in that fight. It switches from him doing his duty to enjoying himself, and reconnecting with the joy of teaching. You get to see some of the healing teaching Po has led to, and best of all, the script doesn't say a fucking word. They communicate all this with just a quick facial expression.
Man this video and comments saying stuff like this makes me enjoy and appreciate Kung Fu Panda even more than before
The dumpling fight is really fun because both parties start to actually find the fun in it and the fact that gruff traumatized Shifu is finally having fun 🥺🥺🥺🥺
After the oogway peach tree scene, whenever a character disappears into things like stars or leaves, me and my family called “ pulling/doing an oogway“
In infinity war they got oogway'd lol
I love the Tai Lung prison break scene because it establishes him as such a formidable antagonist not just because he's strong and fast, but because he's EXTREMELY quick-witted. I don't get the sense that he really had a plan for what he was gonna do after unlocking his restraints, he just saw an opportunity and seized it, and figured out the rest as he went along. Despite how quickly he manages to escape, it doesn't feel completely effortless, he has to constantly think on his feet, react to new obstacles, figure out ways to use his surroundings to his advantage, etc. It's not all just "he's better at punching and kicking than everyone else".
Hope CZcams and Dreamworks Doesn’t Take This Masterpiece Down Again.
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why tf do people use capitals on all of there words
I can’t believe they would
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I knew he already did this video...
Congrats, you've officially summoned DreamWorks to announce Kung Fu Panda 4
Just when we thought DreamWorks were the worst by taking the video down, they turned out to be the best by announcing a new sequel.
Congrats Schaffrillas, your punctuality is on point.
I hope they dont screw up. The 3rd movie was dissapointed
@@bauloprete3905 It would seem a lot of people liked the 3rd movie, but I don't know why. There were several reasons I didn't really like it.
Wait what
Kung fu panda to this day still has some of the best character designs in any movie period. I find that a lot of anthropomorphic designs tend to lean more into the human side (especially with women) which while not inherently bad, can often miss the animal side and in worse cases can look uncanny (*cough* Cats *cough*). Kung Fu Panda meanwhile does the opposite, it embraces the animal side of the characters.
Like how Crane instead of using his wings as hands like a lot of bird characters tend to do uses his talons to pick up objects, or how in general the female characters are designed. It could've been so easy to give them more makeup or a more human design but they don't, and that's impressive, especially for Tigress.
I remember hearing that the artist made a conscious effort to not make look humanly feminine, instead giving her a strong body type and using the markings to mimic makeup, and I think that was a good choice.
I love how you she has a strong body type that not only suites her fighting style, but you can tell what she's like from her appearance. To this day she is one of my favorite designs for a character of all time
In short Kung Fu Panda has incredible character designs that I don't see a lot of people talk about or praise when it really deserves it
Tigress is a strong woman not because she says so, but because she shows it and brought receipts to prove it, too
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@Skysiren41
100% agreed!
@@tatzecom This is such an apt description
Whats wrong with femininity in furries?
Just a detail I really like is the similarities between Tai Lung and Shifu.
Like when Oogway was blowing out the candles one by one, Shifu has no patience and simply puts them all out at once: Which directly parallels the scene with Tai Lung and Po, when Po is shuffling up all the pans to hide the scroll, Tai Lung has no patience and just knocks everything out of his way. Tai Lung really took after Shifu in a lotta ways.
Honestly the main thing which hits home about this movie is honestly how much I relate to DreamWorks' design philosophy of "this sounds like a ridiculous joke, but what if we told it with a straight face, as if it wasn't a joke?" I love everything about this movie but feel like it just couldn't possibly exist without this blessed ass belief that anything that seems like a joke can be taken seriously. This is truly a movie only DreamWorks could make
That's like shrek 2 and mégamind
But kung fo panda was tea thé most extrême example
@@fixsationon7244 your french is slipping/j
(but i also agree, dreamworks movies really are something huh)
@@legrandluan i have never spoken french in my life.
@@fixsationon7244 even if i was only kidding, i assumed because your keyboard put accents where a french keyboard would (for ex.: extreme -> extrême, tea -> thé [french word for tea], etc...)
I'm French so I thought it was funny
(still doesn't change the fact that kung fu panda is awesome)
@@legrandluan hehe. True
This movie is the textbook example of: "there are no bad ideas, only bad executions"
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@@channeleditor9335 it's movie about a fat panda that learns martial arts, that sounds horrible. But the execution of the movie is amazing because it's such a great movie
One of my favourite little details in the movie is after Po's first day, when the Furious Five are chatting, Crane mockingly says "The Dragon Warrior fell out of the sky in a ball of fire!"... during the bridge scene, when Tai Lung is talking about what he has heard about the Dragon Warrior, he uses this exact same line, meaning that someone in the village took Crane's mockery in seriousness, and the rumour got passed around until it reached Tai Lung...
It also goes from a mockery of Po to a compliment
I heard someone talking about how Tigress bullies Po not because she hates him but because she actually really cares about him and wants to protect him. In her eyes, Po is just another civilian, and you can see throughout all the movies how deeply she cares for the innocent (while evacuating, she gently guides everyone, carrying babies and holding hands with children). Once Po proves himself and gains her respect, she continues to be a source of support and reality for him (in KFP3 she makes him face that he cant defeat Kai outright and needs to find another way.) She's just a bit more tough love than the others.
Also, can we talk about how many of the baddies in Po’s opening dream sequence are straight from Lord Shen’s army? So he gets to kick the asses of the monsters he was helpless to stop when he was a baby. The subconscious memories of that tragedy are shaping his dreams and aspirations and even if that wasn’t planned I just love that so much.
O H I like this, VERY excellent spot my friend!!
The thing is, with how thought out these movies are, I wouldn't be surprised if they used those designs for Shens army on purpose
@@zanthous6938 oh yes, definitely. I’m simply unsure as to whether they had that in mind when they made the first movie.
True
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Probably not, but that's not a bad thing really
I'm sure they had an idea for Po's backstory from the beginning, but it likely did not extend that far yet, until they were looking for ideas for a sequel
Or maybe they did, who knows, depends on if they planned a sequel from the start, I dunno much about the production history behind Kung Fu Panda so
The tragically ironic thing with Tai Lung is that he so strongly feels the need for greater power from the Dragon Scroll... _despite the fact that he is _*_undoubtedly the most badass fighter_*_ in the movie._ If anything, one would think that Tai Lung would be _THE FIRST_ to realize that there "is no secret ingredient" to true power considering how much of an unstoppable warrior he is *_without_* the supposed power of the Scroll. Without even knowing it, Tai Lung _was_ using the Scroll's power.
Really, Tai Lung initially embodied a "dark" version of the Dragon Scroll's message; the idea someone could achieve ridiculous feats without some secret power or supernatural ability. Just think about it, Tai Lung does some of the most absurd achievements in the entire trilogy - breaking out of one of the strongest prisons ever, defeating a group of the greatest warriors in the land - with nothing but his own hard-worked skill in martial arts. No army and technology like Lord Shen or spirit powers like Kai, but only sheer hand-to-hand combat skills.
Tai Lung _obviously_ doesn't need any additional cosmic powers that he thought the Dragon Scroll could bestow, but ironically he is also the only one who _CAN'T_ see that even though everyone else is terrified of the power he already has. Po needed the power of the Dragon Scroll to motivate him, but he grew to the point that he didn't need it. Meanwhile, Tai Lung never needed the supposed power of the Dragon Scroll with his prodigal skill but he desperately chased it in vain despite that.
He also is the opposite of Po as Tai Lung is /obsessed/ with gaining more power anyway how, leading to dark implications. Po, however knows when enough is enough and he's "had his fill" so to speak. He's fine with being himself now, he's like a blossom that finally blooms while Tai Lung is a creeping vine smothering anything it can.
I think that he seeks not the "scroll's power" but the attention and recognition of others that comes with it. Like he ultimately just wanted to prove that he's worthy to himself in the first place, like some kind of out of hand imposter syndrome
Well said!
Indeed, Tai Lung was already the dragon warrior, he just failed the last secret test set by Oogway
And that in the end was Tai Lung's ultimate weakness, his desperation for ultimate power, power he already has.
Kung Fu Panda genuinely helped me with my self image. I was like 6 years old when this movie came out. I was a fat kid who was ridiculed for it, and my mom was ruthless with me before I lost a lot of weight (which was only like 2 years ago, so all my life my mom had always vocalize how ugly she think I was).
There's just this feeling of being a waste of space, disgusting, stupid person whenever people take a jab at my weight. When I watched Kung Fu Panda, I saw myself in Po; I was fat, "lazy", and I had a big dream of becoming something that, seemingly, I was not. Plus everybody was really mean to me because of my weight, kinda fucked up, but yeah.
Being a kid, I didn't realize it then, but now I realize how the scene where Po said, "How are you gonna turn this, into a dragon warrior?" resonated deeply with me. Just the absolute *exhaustion* of being yourself. And when the movie ended with Po being something that he always wanted, without changing who he is and simply just work hard to achieve his goal, because he realizes that despite everything, he is enough, it's like that message is ingrained to me forever. It changed my life.
I'm 19 now, I still have a lot of issues with my self image, but I manage and I love myself. If I hadn't watched Kung Fu Panda, I wouldn't survive my own negative thoughts and other people's words.
❤
Tai Lung's pain resonates hard with post-college age melenials. Many of us have been scarred and damaged by our parents and grandparents. They refuse to apologize because they can't accept what they've done. Shifu's apology is a beautiful moment that could been the start of Tai Lung's journey to healing and inner peace, but even in this Shifu failed. Shifu's best lesson is this, real apologies hurt you too, but don't ever delay apologizing.
Kudos to the writers for displaying Mr. Ping's chops as excellent father AND a scheming businessman with the secret ingredient reveal.
The dude turned "I've been scamming these chumps with a fake secret ingredient for years" into an inspirational message for his son.
Which is true to life with many noodle shops. Playing up the authentic traditional recipe passed down generation to generation. It's all just for show.
The secret ingredient is MSG. He just didn't want to admit it.
🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👌👌👌he great man
@@Gooong Uncle Roger approve lmao
@@donnelwaddledee965 yeah, while it’s true many street vendors dedicate years to perfecting one type of food, it was their practice that makes it amazing, not it’s history
one very neat detail in the Shifu/Tai Lung fight that I didn't notice until watching the director's commentary, is that Shifu is entirely on the defensive, not being able to bring himself to fight his son (doesn't matter that he was adopted, Tai Lung was Shifu's son), right up until Tai Lung finds Oogway's staff. When Tai Lung disrespects and dishonors the memory of Oogway, Shifu can't hold himself back, even against his son
Dang... Thanks for letting us know about that detail from the director commentary. I love this fight even more now
The relationship between Po and Tigress as the trilogy goes on is honestly so underrated. I love the progression from their rocky beginning to her eventually coming to respect him, the two of them even becoming friends
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Another part about the "the nothing is what makes it special" reveal on his dads part, is that it calls back to how Po describes his noodle soup as not as good as his dads because it doesn't have the secret ingredient but the others insist that its actually really good. Po was letting himself believe it wasn't as good because it didn't have the special something.
I also absolutely love how Po’s physique never changes. Even after a sick training montage, even when he becomes the hero and in all the films that follow when he continues rigorous training, he still has the same body type. There’s no need for him to become buff or even slimmer to be a hero and his physical appearance is not a mark of his success, which is normally the case in a lot of hero origin stories.
You ever see the guy in full metal alchemist the guy married to Ed's teacher he certainly muscular but not the standard muscular I imagine Po's kinda like that.
No he's actually just fat. He's not a big fat panda, he's THE big fat panda.
There's also the thing that Po still weighs as much as ever. But instead of pure fat, it's pure muscle covered by fur. he's still in shape because he eats as much as he trains.
He uses his body fat in combat. He can take a hit which gives him a huge advantage, like when he fights tai lung
@@Valigarmanda ha reference
I remember two things very distinctively about this particular movie:
1. During the movie screening at the cinema, 14 years ago, my little goblin kid self and my sister had to constantly shush our mom, because she was laughing way too loudly and often at every single joke.
2. "I stayed, because every time you threw a brick at me, or said I smelled, it hurt! But it could never hurt more than every day of my life just being me" is the one quote that stuck the most to me, even after all these years. Call me crazy, but I think Kung Fu Panda deals with self-loathing a bit better than Shrek: unlike Shrek, I've never thought of myself as an unloveable ogre that much during my childhood, but being a heavy kid really lowered my self esteem. I barely see any movies with male protagonists who are straight up fat, and don't change that by the end.
This movie is a mastapeece.
And the fact that this movie brought us Jack Black Bowser
Kung fu panda did so much more for body positivity (especially for males) than literally anything else in society
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Po did get thinner in the sequels, though.
@@TheAbsol7448 barely
Here's something I thought about: One of the reason why Tai Lung was able to take out the 5 is because they were using Kung Fu like him, he knows their moves and knows how to counter them. When he's fighting Po, the panda never really uses any Kung Fu moves save for near the end. All of Po's attacks and defensive moves are unexpected and out of the blue. You wouldn’t except Tai Lung to expect Po using a firework stand to catch up to him.
What I like is how each Kung Fu Panda movie's villain is connected to different people
Kung Fu Panda: Shifu - Tai Lung
Kung Fu Panda 2: Po - Lord Shen
Kung Fu Panda 3: Oogway - Kai
I also really like how in the end of Kung Fu Panda Shifu finds inner peace, the theme that is the central plot of the second movie for Po and how he too achieved it then. That's one of the best examples of foreshadowing I've ever witnessed in any media.
Now for the fourth film, the villain must have connection with the Furious Five or atleast one of them
@@4deleDaz33m tigress for sure
@@4deleDaz33m nah the next villain will be a panda, because
Tai Lung-physical
Shen-Mental
Kai-Spiritual
Random Panda Villain-Yourself
@@randomuser9271 nah its gonna explore his sexuality 😳
Shen isn't exactly a po villain, although he is the closest to being one. Shen wanted to kill all of pandas not just po's parents and he couldn't even kill po's dad. All the villains are tied into the concept of dragon warrior, Tai lung is the epitome of physicality and never lost a fight until po, po even tho learnt from an unorthodox method defeated a strictly traditional student like Tai lung, Shen and po are the two sides of trying to achieve peace, Shen lost because he was looking outwards, Kai is a lost soul, he is burdened by so much sand that he has forgotten himself, po literally sends him to his home which is the spirit realm. They are all villains with a direct contrast with the dragon warrior. Tai lung vs po is orthodox vs unorthodox, Tai lung is also the perfect specimen for kung fu but without accepting himself he is worthless, Shen is one of the more intelligent people but without inner peace, he is vain and Kai have the spirit of many of his enemies but he has forgotten his own soul. Po is not the perfect specimen but he is, because he believes, he shouldn't have inner peace after so many bad things happened but he has it, because he can let go and forgive, he shouldnt know his soul but he does, because he hasn't lost himself. Believe in yourself, accept who you are, don't forget who you are.
Can we talk about how happy Shifu looks in the dumpling fight scene with Po? For the first time in the film, and probably the first time since Tai Lung, he looks like he is genuinely having fun.
It's because Tai lung is like one punch man. He can't find a worthy opponent and every battle he engages in is super boring to him, so the first time someone pops out the find the scroll under the pans trick he's like oh this is good. He wasn't expecting anything that Po did even when he defeated the furious 5 he was bored with their moves and talked but how legendary his battle with the dragon warrior would be. He saw he was a panda underestimated him then realized he was up against a completely unorthodox challenger, something he has never had to experience before. You can also tell when Tai Lung realized that Po isn't just a dumb panda and starts to try harder, but the harder he tries the more he gets his sh*t rocked kind of symbolizing what was shown previously about him being impatient and arrogant.
I think it's his first legit laugh in the entire movie.
Through training Po in a way that works for him, Shifu was having a good time, since unlike Tai Lung, Po wasn’t over-confident in his abilities and didn’t have darkness in his heart.
One little detail I like about Kung-Fu Panda is that the limp in his walk was cause by Tai Lung.
In the flashbacks before Tai Lung went evil, Shifu was walking quite normally, but after he took that blow, he now has the limp.
That limp probably reminds him of how he failed Tai Lung every day.
Might even be a psychological injury more than a physical one
@@ryanchou2846 No, he broke his hip.
Oh wow. I didn’t realize that. The small details really do make the difference
Or maybe he just got old
@@Bacxaber Some psychological injuries can cause people to believe that their physical injuries are worse than they think, and think that they're supposed to be weakened as a result of something bad they did. Notice how his limp was suddenly gone during his training with Po? It's as if he was enjoying the moment so much that he didn't notice the psychological injury that was pushing his physical one down in the first place.
I never noticed how good of a character Tai Lung was. When you mentioned that his eyes almost started to water but he refused to because hes too far to stop now, made me tear up.
That one line that Uguay says about meeting ones destiny by trying to avoid it, is so true. Whenever someone tries to go against/prevent fate they just help accelerate it? That was gold
You can see it throughout the franchise. When Shen was told a panda would destroy him and set out to genocide all the pandas, it led to Po ending up in the village where he’d be trained and become the Dragon Warrior who would later defeat him.
that is why i'm not quitting smoking, that way I can avoid lung cancer
@@kiplingwasafurry1108 And Kai was destroyed while trying to become all-powerful, by the same power he was seeking.
It reminds me of Wonder of U you from jojolion
(I'd suggest reading it btw)
Spoilers:
When people know about him, and want to figure more, when people pursue and try to stop him, all that happens is that calamity speeds up to them. When Johnny tried to Shoot his son to end his families curse, all that happened was that it contracted to him and he died. Only Through Josuk8 was the curse able to be removed and calamity/ fate to be defeated.
greek mythology and theater in a nutshell
Tigress was being extra hard on Po, she was angry. When the dragon warrior was being selected, Tigress asks Oogway if he was pointing at her, and Oogway confirms that he is pointing at Po by saying "him". And in the immediate "What, What, What" scene, we get a close up of everyone, and everyone is in shock, except Tigress who is angry and growling.
She could very well have turned out like Tai Lung. Like him, she was a prodigy and clearly stood out above the rest, but what held her back was Shifu didn't force the idea on her that she'd become the dragon warrior or be destined to be the best. So instead of breaking herself knowing she'd be great, she broke herself to prove herself to her master. This all just makes her moments of respect to Po hit all the better, cuz he brought her perspective and allowed her to level up as a martial artist and not stay stagnant.
Yeah, Tigress may have been a jerk to Po, but considering she had spent her entire life training to reach a certain position that would gain her father’s approval and then it was just handed to some flabby panda who fell out from the sky, who can blame her?
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Good thing Schafrillas is using the “copyright protection” flowers to scare Dreamworks away
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Bro I thought I was the only one seeing the flowers or that this was a re-upload
I love how oogway isn't just some old sensei who just talks about honor and forgiveness. He has the personality of a caring and goofy grandfather
These are truly on a level equal to HTTYD in terms of visual and emotional appeal, and I stand by that. The second one is my most favorite, and always will resound with me.
The second is my favourite, too! Definitely DreamWorks’ magnum opus, in my eyes!
Agreed....
SHAKABOO-EEE!!!
Oogway fading away and the music swelling up still gives chills after all these years. It's just so good.
Hans Zimmer is a musical Genius
Feels
When I die, I wish I could fade away in the wind like Master Oogway.
@kung Fu panda wth bot legitimately replying
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The scene where Po's dad tells him that the secret ingredient of his Secret-Ingredient Soup is nothing, and that he doesn't need to have one bc 'to make something special, you just have to believe it's special' truly stuck with me, ever since I was 8 and autistic, most thought I wouldn't even finish 3rd grade; Now I'm 22, a high school graduate, college student, and achieving two majors in both Graphic Design & Illustration (the first in my family to ever do so)! Not even my siblings could do that, & they're both on the Honor Roll!
I'm truly grateful that this masterpiece exists, & I hope this helps more people out the same way it taught me.
you inspire me!
as someone who is suspected autistic and in their junior high, also wanting to major graphic design, it's been a struggle trying to show out as a 'special kid' infront of my family. the fact you succeeded in so much even with some problems in the way is really epic, especially to see someone who was motivated by this masterpiece of a film as i am.
My favorite thing about Tai Lung is that he just does things. He’s so skilled and adaptable he just figures out solutions to seemingly impossible situations offscreen and it feels perfectly natural.
29:15 I actually think that this is a callback to two things. first, Po says that he eats when he's upset, so by not being hungry, he shows that he's currently pretty happy. Also, at the beginning of the training, Shifu said that Po could eat once he had been trained. This could be a way to show that Po still has room to grow as both a martial artist and a character.
I added pretty flowers so maybe this means it won't get taken down this time uwu
@Dan Espinoza 🅥 oh
GAME TOONS 🤣🤣😂
Wow that’s crazy
Please don't UwU at me
@@JokeHatesItHere no uwu
Great to see Dreamworks is still shooting themselves in the foot when people are making something positive about their films
Proud of Scahff. Big enough to have bots on his channel. For real though Dreamworks are the worst when people actually praise their films rather than destroying them. Do they WANT their movies to be hated?
@@PrintOmnivore20 Im 50% Sure that it's bots that do massive majority of the work
@@PrintOmnivore20 Ikr like here's Schaff actively praising one of their movies as a masterpiece... and they thank him with _repeated_ copyright strikes. Wtf.
@@mrreyes5004 they’re just pissed that this video is doing better than the crap that Dreamworks is putting out this year. Just saying
@@emoji3266 I mean, that's the truth right there v_v Nobody can really get mad if it's a fact, really. Kinda brought it on themselves.
29:23 I think the reason Po says he’s not hungry is because earlier in the film he says he eats when he’s upset, making it another call back to previous lines… the dialogue is so solid! :D
18:11 fun fact, Viper is actually the kindest of the 5 as she never insults Po or says/does anything against him and shes the only member that hasnt told Shifu that Po was a mistake
Red vs blue pfp. Epic
@@fatfetus5544 I've had this as my pfp for maybe 4-6 years and your the first person to comment on that
I love the fact that Kung Fu panda just looks like another silly kids movie on the surface but it's actually really meaningful and has a lot to offer. It perfectly parallels Po's arc
It's a family movie. :(
I like the smile that Master Oogway has after saying "I don't know" to Master Shifu. It just shows that he's not the smartest being in the world, but he is still excited to see who the Dragon Warrior will be.
And Tai Lung reminds me a lot of Sonic the Werehog.
I love Sonic Unleashed.
He floofy but stronk
@@NintendoCuckooBird01 indeed.
Well he's at peace with not knowing the future and letting things go that he can't control he said something along the lines to shifu not to worry and when you over react you can just made things so I think that scene was a manifest of his beliefs and contempment with life also showing he's a bit aloof right and after that he just accepts death and turns into flowers in the wind 🍃
@@NewAgeSlaves While everyone else goes against the winds of life, Po and Oogway flows with its streams, and laughs with life and whatever comes next.
Life is meant to be enjoyed while it's still there, but also to prepare us for death and the afterlife, at least in my opinion.
31:27 😂 Dude, I want this line used in every one of your Kung Fu Panda movie breakdowns.
A bit early in the movie, you mentioned how Po's relationship with the Five is never really flushed out much. There's a reason for this, as in the sequel, if you watch the directors talk about it, they mention that the time skip and earning of respect would feel unearned and undeserved if they backpedaled the relationship for the second movie. The second movie shows the Five and Po as good friends because Po doesn't need to earn their respect like he did in the first movie again, and by then, they obviously would be good friends through both training and daily life as him being the dragon warrior. It's a small detail, but one that does feel natural and well-thought out.
33:37 I love how that scene is shot: it has the same silhouette of Po’s dream-sona, with typical legend/master outfit (so Kung fu uniform, cape and coolie hat) but in reality he’s wearing a pan and an apron, symbolizing what he is outside of his Kung fu skills; at the end he did become a legend like he always wanted, just not THE WAY he always dreamed of, not by using super advanced Kung fu tactics, but by using attributes that makes HIM special
Because when you need to show everyone your true potential, you don’t have to be anyone but yourself
I also love how his dream persona came back in 3. During his battle with Kai and his conversation with Oogway in the spirit realm. But when he returns back to the mortal realm, he reverts back to his usual self.
Any robe = kimono 🤦♂️
do you know what a kimono is??
Fixed it
When Kung Fu Panda is such a masterpiece you have to repost the video since Dreamworks can’t handle its awesomeness
Indeed
and also the amount of bots in this comment section is worrying
@@Rebekasss CZcams doesn’t care
Dreamworks Just Wants Money 💴
DreamWorks be like: Oh stop! You making me blush ☺️
@@Rebekasss I know right! What's worse is that when i was writing a reply about these annoying spam bots i couldn't post my reply for no reason until i altered it that removes any mention of the "finally it's here" word phrase which is just plain awful.
This movie came at a very important time for me. I was feeling insecure about following my dreams, and Po's struggles and doggedly-positive outlook was the most motivating thing ever. He was definitely a hero to me.
18:41 dropped one of the hardest lines in fiction for a kids movie about a panda.
This movie literally changed my life. I loved this movie as a little kid and also wanted to be a kung fu master because of it. One of the kids in my class actually new a nearby place where there was kung fu training. As the little Kung Fu Panda fanboy that I was, I tried it out. I still consider this my best decision of my life. I'm still going consistently about 7 or 8 years later and it had such a positive impact on my life
that's really cool! who would've thought that a movie literally titled Kung Fu Panda can bring a lot of positive impact in our life
I love how when Tai Lung looks at the scroll, which is his reflection, he scowls. And when he throws it down, we see Poe smile at himself in the scroll as he explains the power is just in him.
25:32 nah the way they were able to animate that much emotion onto a 3D CGI tiger is fucking insane
This is why live-action remake of non-human stories will always be inferior to the original animated ones
28:38 oohh my days, i legit just sat here and laughed at this for 5 minutes
I found it funny at first and found it *extremely* funny once i found out what tenacious meant
the more you stare the funnier it gets
tenacious is such a serious word, then its just tenacious panda like its just some random panda, then the way his face is distorted to look like hes looking over his shoulder, the fact that its a BOOK so if it were actual what tf would be in it, the fact that its in a seriously great movie in a serious video, and the fact that it was so unexpected
just oh my days
10/10
I think the reason why Po said he’s “not hungry” wasn’t because of something Tigress said, but rather a callback to what Po said earlier in Kung Fu Panda 1. Po eats a lot, even when he’s upset, however, thanks to Oogway’s wisdom Po learned to only eat food when it’s necessary, and him grabbing the last dumpling and then throwing it to Shifu… oh yeah, that’s character development, right there.
He's more confident. His master now trusts in him too as well him trusting in himself and his skills
Fun fact: the animators the self’s and to martial arts school to learn and train themselves instead of just watching, that’s why the animations look so fluid and natural because they experienced it.
@ReddHood619 yeah
I heard about the Bridge scene on the topic of choreography. When that scene was pitched to the animation team and where told "no one has even done anything like this before." the team rightly blanched at it, but not for the reason you would think, they knew it was going to be hard to do. What got them to blanch at the idea was the fact no one had done it before, meaning DreamWorks Animation was the first to even attempt it. They where blown away at the idea of beating Pixar to the punch.
Absolute legends.
I think something that is notably impressive is that even after watching every kung fu panda movie multiple times, when I hear po talk, I'm not even thinking about Jack black.
I know this might sound odd, but think about it, when the rock or Kevin Hart is voicing a character, you think about the fact that it's them voicing the character. But when I hear po talk it doesn't even take me out of the movie in the slightest. It's very impressive.
i don't even remember that jack black voices po at all lmao
not the first one to say this, but I love that one shot of Tai Lung's entire body being shadowed in blue except for his eyes which are yellow, (po's signature color since he's the hero) signifying how Tai Lung views himself as the hero and main character of the story.
I hope they bring back Tai Lung. Somehow, Tai Lung returned or something
Unrelated, but holy hell these "finally it's here" bots are out of control
But Tai Lung is the hero
I also always loved how Tai Lung is a Snow Leopard, a Warrior of Black and White.
In the second movie, they made a specific prophecy mentioning that colour scheme, and Tai Lung also starts using Ki/ pressure attacks. He was even sent to the spirit realm by the Wooshi Finger Hold, and is a pendant/ talisman on Kai's belt, signaling that his power was stolen.
All this to say that he could have been the hero of the story, had he chosen to do so. It was his own greed/ insecurity that turned him into a villian. And he could have stopped himself at any time.
He could have been the dragon warrior... he just chose not to out of frustration.
@@Spencer_W More like "finally...
a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"
One of my favorite moments is "I stayed because I thought, if anyone could change me, could make me not me, it was you." because GOD it just hit me right in the gut. Po was basically admitting outright that he kind of hated himself and wanted to change, only to realize later he didn't need to is just good stuff. It's something a lot of people might not realize they need to hear. Po actually changes and grows over the course of the trilogy and that's why it's so good. And Jack Black's performance is gut wrenching at times, including that mentioned moment. He really delivers here.
The whole idea of "there is no secret ingredient" and the reason WHY Po is the Dragon Warrior, is "I'm okay with who I am, and I'm okay with what *I* bring to the world." And especially in this world of "here is how WE do things how YOU will learn" as someone with ADHD and someone who felt the need TO conform to the standardized way of learning, but it just didn't work, so I needed to change and as someone who felt so STUPID for having to have her hand held cause her memory SUCKED when it came to tests when I tried so HARD to remember...I wish I had this movie as a kid.
Cinema Therapy did an episode on this movie a few days ago, they agree with that scene
@@ninjanibba4259 that's so fascinating that BOTH content creators mentioned that a main takeaway from the film is everyone learns at a different pace. Again it's why I wish I had this film back in the day. I'd have learned it's OKAY to have ADHD, it isn't just detrimental, you can learn to live with it. Vs what I was always doing which was trying to BEAT it.
@@TheRibottoStudios definitely, accepting yourself is a big theme, improvement is great too, but you can't improve yourself if you don't love yourself first
@@ninjanibba4259 EXACTLY. And what's what the trilogy does so well. Movie 1 Po learns to love himself. Movie 2 he improves on himself. Movie 3 everything comes together.
GOD it's good fcking food.
@@TheRibottoStudios I haven't seen the other 2 yet, I haven't had access to them till recently, so it's all a matter of time for me, since Schaff is doing the others and Cinema Therapy too at some point, I need to beat them to it
Fun fact(?) : The battle between Tai Lung and Sifsu has even more emotional weight in the spanish latin dub, as the delivery on the former's voice shows much more heartbroken, to the verge of tears i would say, ESPECIALLY at the "tell me your proud, Shifu!" part, where instead of mocking Shifu, he is literally begging to him to be considered worthy of his "father"'s affection.
You don't need to understand the language to feel the emotion and intention.
One thing I feel like needs to be said about comedy is its purpose in the climax. We had to watch the dark drama of Tai Lung and his confrontation with Shifu, and how tragic the whole thing is. Also we see how unstoppable Tai Lung as been up until that point. But then stumbling in comes Po out of breath with the sun starting to rise behind him. After so much drama, Po vs Tai Lung brings so much needed cathartic levity that you can't help but cheer Po on while he purposely and accidentally humiliates Tai Lung who was this unstoppable warrior. The comedy was used to well for the climax and it helps show how much of a unpredictable force of nature Po is. He brings both hope and levity. It's also why, while a bit less on the comical side, Po reflecting the cannonballs in Kung fu Panda 2 is one of my favorite scenes in animation ever.
Also during Po vs Tai Lung, while people like to talk about Po's ingenuity of keeping the scroll away, it gets skipped how after Tai Lung gets the scroll, when Po accidentally punches him into a building, we see Po look at his hands in amazement and that's when he finally fully believes in himself and can take on Tai Lung in a straight fight, which he does, showing he probably could have done it from the start of their fight. Tai Lung does not know how to fight Po's defensive and unorthodox fighting style who is a lot better at turning his opponent's energy against them.
Usually there's a consistent problem in both animated and super hero movies lately where comedy keeps undermining a serious scene, like writers are too insecure to embrace emotional vulnerability. Which is why I so prefer the imposter syndrome theme in this movie. The confrontation with Shifu and Po had such vulnerable dialogue that can hit hard.
And comedy doesn't necessarily have to neuter an emotional scene. Kung Fu Panda is probably my favorite example of this, during the scene where Shen and Po talk about scars healing. It mixes in a joke with Po asking what scars do instead of healing, but it feels so in character that when the tone immediately becomes serious again after that you don't get whiplash and their conversatiin doesn't feel undercut
I honestly consider Kung Fu Panda 2 not only the best animated movie ever made, but one of the greatest movies ever made as well. I remember going into the theater thinking there was no way this would top the first one because the first movie set the bar so high already. Not only did I leave the theater blown away by the sheer quality of it, this was the turning point for me and how I realized animated movies made for kids can be so much more meaningful than society gives them credit for.
I kind of hope for the sequel video, Schaffrillas includes music from the Robobrood battle from Mario Odyssey. It makes sense in context and out of context.
Shen was a great villain tio
It was so good the first time around, it needed a sequel.
And a trilogy and spin offs aswell
Why the hell are there so much bots!?
And nobody had any problems with it
If Schaffrillas needs to talk about the sequel, he should probably add some Robobrood music from Mario Odyssey. It actually makes sense in context and out of context.
It is getting a fourth movie apparently
You know, I had been sleeping on Tai Lung all these years. Shen is still my favorite (and probably always will be), but after watching the first movie again recently, it ended up really clicking for me why Tai Lung is so damn good. He's a perfect first antagonist for Po as he fits his arc like a glove, all while having a very memorable personality and overpowering presence. And his backstory only serves to invest you more into him and the conflict as a whole. You really can't do much better than that! Love these movies so much.
What i love so much about the animation of kung fu panda is that they weren't afraid of squash and stretch properties. Even Disney avoids having their cgi characters go too off model during action sequences which makes the action far less kinetic or interesting to look at.
On a rewatch, it spoke an enormously to me that Tai Lung was the one thing that finally made Po give up. Po was ready to keep enduring Shifu, but when he’s told that he would have to fight Tai Lung he runs away screaming. It just builds up Tai Lung so well.
Shifu has a character arc that also works well in this movie. Starting off has a really hard and strict mentor to Po and the Furious Five, but as the film keeps going we learn more about him when we get to Tai Lung’s backstory, we learn that he suffered so much trauma, that when he sees Master Oogway die later on in the movie, he realize that he has to do his best in training Po in order to become the Dragon Warrior and take down Tai Lung. I would explain more, but Schaf talked about some of it in the Tai Lung section.
Really the "kung fu as a joke" is only applicable to Shifu, HE'S the one not trying to actually train Po /seriously/ or doing his end of the Master teaching student side in finding the best way to train his students.
Shifu is practically the main character here.
I do want to mention the shot of po looking at the empty scroll and seeing himself. It’s just honestly beautiful how deep it gets! Especially when tai lung looks at the scroll and doesn’t see anything. But do you know what po sees? He sees himself on the scroll. I just really love it
27:40 Oh god he right it's trancending and it's beautiful as hell
Po saying "I'm not hungry" is a sign of him not being insecure anymore. Po goes on food binges when he's upset. That's why he was trying to get Monkey's Cookies in The Kitchen. Food was his main motivator because he still doesn't believe in himself even though he shows potential. That's why after Shifu successfully trained him. He is confident and proud of himself, this is indicated by him not feeling hungry. Throwing away his blanket of comfort, Food. Because he doesn't need it anymore now that he knows that he's not a failure that doesn't belong in the palace, both in Shifu's and His Own Eyes. [29:05]
It's even more impactful when you get the backstory from the second movie and realise how Po gained that habit.
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Said it once, I'll say it again, this movie is AMAZING in every aspect
Wow, 4 bot comments in a row. Genuinely impressive.
@@thatoneswordguy finally, a worthy opponent
@@thatoneswordguy yeah
12:39 Leaving Mantis to hold the ropes serves two purposes: 1, a bit of absurd comedy during the fight, and 2, to display just how powerful these fighters are, but even so they still can't hold their own against Tai Lung.
27:17 oogway was looking at shifu with his shower thought comebacks at the ready lol. He didn't stand a chance.
Yknow I've often wondered why Shifu didnt just show Tai Lung the dragon scroll when he showed up, since it would prove to him that it was all for naught. But now I figure if he did that, Tau Lung would assume it was a fake to trick him or something. By playing keep-away with the scroll, Po made it seem much more important and desirable, and therefore the real deal.
That’s why oogway did the same, showing him the reflective scroll would have caused more harm, as his pride would make him think he was tricked. Doesn’t help his master didn’t defend him at all.
I think Shifu has never seen the scroll himself, I'm pretty sure he was also surprised to find out it's empty. The reason he never showed it to Tai Lung was because Oogway was against it and Shifu wouldn't go against his judgement out of a lot of respect.
In the canon of the Kung-Fu Panda universe, the martial art style is called “Panda Style” and was invented by Po to make use of his girth, and his opponents speed and experience and is actually based off the real world “Dragon Style” from the same martial art all of the Furious Fives fighting styles comes from. Another amazing detail.
Always loved the art direction in this franchise, the opening dream sequence is so stunning I'd honestly love to see a Kung Fu Panda movie in that artstyle alone. I was 10 when I saw the movie for the first time and now I'm 23 and it still hits all the right nodes. The score, the quotes, the fights, I freaking adore it.
22:21 she fu: You are destend for greatness!
Tai lung: i didnt quite hear that last part.