Kung Fu Panda - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Kung Fu Panda or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Kung Fu Panda

[chris]

DreamWorks Animation's first film to have Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois involved, as they joined DreamWorks Animation in 2007 after the releases of Shrek the Third (2007) and Bee Movie (2007). They later worked on many projects by DreamWorks Animation as studio members. The two later directed How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and The Croods (2013), respectively. In this film, Sanders and DeBlois worked as artists.

[ray]

This marks the second (and also last) collaboration with writer Chris Sanders and actor Michael Clarke Duncan after Brother Bear (2003).

[chad]

WILHELM SCREAM: (At around thirty-three minutes) When Tai Lung is escaping prison and is hitting the Rhino guards with a mace. He flings a guard into the air, and when he kicks the guard through the door, just before he lands, you hear it.

[riley]

This is the second DreamWorks movie to use someone other than the fishing boy to be sitting on the DreamWorks logo at the start of the movie. In the case of this one, it's a martial arts monkey (not the character named Monkey) who makes his way up not using balloons. The first movie like that being The Cat in the Hat (2003). This would even be the case for the logo variants of later DreamWorks Animation movies in the updated logo introduced in How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (which also had Chris Sanders involved), examples include this movie's sequels.

[edgar]

The Kung Fu and Wuxia convention, where attacks on the correct nerve and Chi points can cause paralysis and other effects, is adopted, although it is not explained in the movie, and the jade figurine topped sticks on the shell worn on the imprisoned Tai Lung are positioned at the traditional Chi energy points of the body. The sticks are intended to keep the villain from accessing the power from those points, which is why he was first concerned about removing them before attempting to break his chains.

[jessie]

Po's adoptive goose father, Mr. Ping, is never mentioned by name in this movie, but he is in the sequels.

[bessie]

The chopstick fight between Po and Master Shifu is a reference to a similar scene in Fearless Hyena 3 (1980).

[christina]

According to visual effects supervisor Markus Manninen, the computer animation used throughout the film was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before.

[stephanie]

The film was originally going to be a spoof of the Kung Fu genre, but one of the directors, John Stevenson, wanted to have a blend of comedy and action to make this movie more epic, saying, "I wasn't interested in making fun of martial arts movies, because I really think they can be great films. They can be as good as any genre movie when they're done properly."

[jim]

Pressure points are more difficult to locate on obese people, as shown when Mantis has trouble performing acupuncture on Po. In the end, this served to protect Po from Tai Lung's pressure point attacks.

[bessie]

you can tell how much Master Shifu is enjoying training Po when he goes to take his dumpling, in one frame only he has a big smile while doing it.

[liam]

Baseball player Pablo Sandoval earned the nickname of "Kung Fu Panda" after leaping around a tag at home plate against the Dodgers on September 19, 2008. Teammate Barry Zito commented that he thought that Sandoval looked like the Kung Fu Panda in avoiding the tag.

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