Therapist Reacts to KUNG FU PANDA

In that part where Shifu starts training Po properly, he's not only accepting Po as he is, he is also accepting the present as it is. He is actually having fun while training Po, he's smiling for one of the first times in the movie, even though Tai Lung is on his way. Po was unconsciously teaching Shifu to be at peace and to do things at his own pace. I love this movie so much.

One of the reasons I love Oogway is that he's brutally honest. I lot of people would lie to make Po feel better. "They hate me." "They don't hate you! They just don't know you!" But Oogways like "Yeah, they hate you. . .but that won't last forever-" And that's a lot more powerful.

One thing to point out: Oogway mentions that Po's eating habit is a stress response, that he eats when he's upset. And then we get to the end of the "You are free to eat" fight and he says he's not hungry.

Remember guys: What makes Po strong is his acceptance of himself. What makes Tigress dangerous is her self-control. What makes monkey a hero is the pain he channels into compassion for others. What makes mantis formidable is his infinite patience. What makes viper ferocious is her unmatchable courage. What makes crane special is his tremendous confidence

The moment Shifu says "I don't know!" is such a powerful moment to see. It's him finally relinquishing control. He's no longer the man with all the answers. He cannot control this situation. But in admitting he doesn't know, he frees himself from the illusion that his way is the best way.

When Po said "I'm not hungry" in the chopstick scene at the end, I think that says a lot. His coping mechanism was to eat. Because he was surprising his emotions. He said it himself. That he eats when he's sad or stressed. And even though he was in that stressful situation of having to be the dragon warrior, he still said "I'm not hungry" and learned to cope better with his emotions than he used to before. Sry for my bad English. It's not my first language.

In my opinion, Po and Tai Lung are two sides of the same coin. They were both adopted , except one was raised with love while the other was raised with expectations. It's honestly sad that Tai Lung was never given the time to heal from his wounds, if only there was another ending where Po tries to help Tai Lung.

My karate sensei loved this film, to the point that he bought a Po costume and wore it at special events for our school. He passed away a few years ago after a long journey with brain cancer, but his legacy lives on in the way we teach. We don't exclude people who aren't able to master our curriculum the way it's written, we make adjustments so that they can still achieve and find their own inner strengths. Kids with disabilities, adults with bad joints, really anyone who most people would write off as having too many barriers, we take them and teach them and make them part of our community. Obviously Oogway's death hits hard these days, but I will always be proud of how we carry out the lessons that my old sensei and Kung Fu Panda both embrace.

The “I’m not hungry” line is so cathartic and awesome because Po eats excessively when he’s upset (going all the way back to when he ate an entire crate of radishes after his mother abandoned him to save his life as a baby). Considering his amount of fat relative to his fitness at the beginning, this further illustrates his poor mental health. But by finding friends, a mentor who earnestly believes in him, a deeper connection to his greatest passion and love for himself, he outgrows that emotional crutch.

I think it's so appropriate that they got Jack Black to voice Po, he isn't classically what Hollywood looks for in a star, but his dedication to being his unique self is what catches the audience's attention.

A little detail I love about the final fight is that Po is the only opponent that could withstand Tai Lung's attack to the nerves because he's such a fat panda that he's protected from such a move, whereas every other kung-fu master is vulnerable against it. It's incredibly literal, so much that we may take it for granted, but it's thematically relevant to the message of everyone having value and their own strengths. It's not something he learned ; he's able to pull through the final stretch of the fight simply because of who he is, turning something he was mocked for into a positive. It's a comedy moment first and foremost, but it works as a wonderful microcosm of the point of the film.

You can see the guilt on Shifu's face when Po told him he believed in him even though Shifu gave him no reason to believe in him. He probably thought Po didn't realize he was trying to get rid of him and kept trying to break his will and humiliate him, but being called out for his actions and the fact that Po didn't have a grudge and still had faith in him must have hit him like a truck in that moment.

Fun story I was actually told I was adopted through Kung fu panda and this movie means a lot to me so I'm glad y'all are covering it

"Your Mind is like Water. When it gets agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.." Master Oogway is the best

It always gives me shivers when Tai Lung looks at the scroll, sees his own reflection and says “It’s nothing!” He couldn’t and can’t see the value in just himself, beyond the learned kung fu skill and quest for limitless power, so all he sees is this empty image of a failed man. Contrast that with Po’s round, sweet smiling face reflecting back at him in the mirrored scroll, which he has learned to love and accept… This movie has my heart in a Wuxi hold. skadoosh 💓

I love how Oogway’s revelation and the secret he put in the dragon scroll was so hyped up. He was so respected, that this wisdom was thought to be much grander than it actually was. Because, Po’s father has long since knew the same knowledge being a humble noodle chef and I think that’s so powerful. That the answers to life can be found by anyone and everyone from any source of background, profession, or anything.

As an elementary school teacher, the line that resonated with me was “I cannot train you like I trained the five” When I was in college, they HOUNDED in us that each student is different and has different needs. You have to think of five different ways to say the same thing. I do try to emphasize that with my students. Edit: I appreciate all the likes!

When po is talking to Oogway and says he doesn't have what the other five have, and he says "No Venom" it shows how little he actually knows about the people he's anxious to be like. Viper doesn't have venom, she doesn't even have fangs. It's a foreshadowing that Po will not only get to know the five better, but understand what he can really do and defy expectations

One of my favorite little details in the film is when Po first looks at the dragon scroll and sees it, he says "It's blank" but when Tai Lung sees it, he says that "It's nothing." and because it's showing their reflections, it's also them commenting on themselves. Po says it's blank and sees something with infinite potential, a blank canvas that could become anything. Tai Lung instead sees nothing because he thought it would give him ultimate power, but the way he sought power was self destructive and focused on the physicality rather than the equally important spirituality.

Something really interesting about Po mentioning the Five under the tree is that, Viper doesn’t actually have venom! She was born without fangs, and learned to fight entirely independently from how a snake is “expected” to fight