Kung Fu Panda (功夫熊貓) – (1)

A Panda can play Kung Fu. Wonderful! The DreamWorks (A film-maker, I guess) brings about this film to the audience of the world, young or old. My wife and I were among them in UA Cinema, Shatin, last Saturday, June 28th.

The story of the film is simple. One day, a panda called Ah Bo (阿寶) who helped his father sell noodles each day, brought some noodles to the city to sell. He wanted to see what was going on at the meeting (舞林大會) of those animals who were good at Kung Fu, but the door was shut before him. After so many trials and failures of entering the site, he finally went in. The purpose of the meeting was to select the best Kung Fu fighter to beat the fierce cunning leopard (惡霸) called (大豹). The panda did not know any Kung Fu before, but miraculously, he was looked up to by the Kung Fu leaders. He was trained then on by the Kung Fu leader called 施福大師.

Kung Fu training was hard, but interesting to Ah Bo. The film shows the funny trainings in details. The Kung Fu leader 施福大師 used Chinese dumplings as rewards so as to train Kung Fu Panda to get them fast. In another training session, some cookies were placed at the top shelf in the kitchen. Ah Bo was able to get those cookies to feed himself because his Kung Fu had been upgraded.

On the other side, the mentioned leopard, 大豹, escaped from the prison and returned to the city. There were fierce fights between each of the five Kung Fu fighters namely, Tigress (飛虎女), Smart Monkey (靈猴), Fierce Mantis (螳螂大師), Red-crowned Crane (仙鶴大師) and Poisonous Snake (毒蛇大師) with the Leopard on a hanging bridge. The Leopard won and then Kung Fu Panda had to face him. No doubt Kung Fu Panda won finally and became the Hero of the city.