Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

This is an animation short that ties in with the first Kung Fu Panda films with Po the panda ropes in by Shifu to teach the philosophy of Kung Fu to a group of young bunnies at a martial arts school.

However it is not the crash bang wallop of Kung Fu that Po teaches but the positive traits that each of the Furious Five developed.

So you have flashbacks of the Furious Five and how they developed their skills and the virtues they developed. It avoids preachiness and younger viewers would be highly entertained.

The animation is very good and up to feature film standard and they have attracted an all star cast for the voices.

This short film added to the story as a whole , however , the animation was quite raw , it's good for a short film , but still , it's a big studio .. I expected more .

First secrets special of the Kung Fu Panda franchise and it gives much needed stories of the Furious Five before they were the Furious Five. The movies are more meant for Po's journey and good to have specials to help show the beginnings of the team. Thus one is more of them by themselves and Secrets of the Scroll is them teaming up for the first time. Good if they had a feature length spin-off film to help explain their absence in Kung Fu Panda 4 and help give them the screen time they deserve. Also, I like the 2D animation of these Secrets specials. It helps it stick out from the 3D animation of today. It seems like 2D animation is dying and it could always be a time for it to make a comeback. Now we have 2.5D animation that blends the two together rather than just fully just 2D. Kung Fu Panda has more scenes that are fully 3D and others are fully 2D but doesn't blend them into one.

Well, lets just say that the producers did not try on making this side feature. It doesn't look like its too much beyond story board. The only tie-in is the whole Kung Fu Panda part.

Anyway, you get to see little bits a pieces of the 5 main characters aside from Jack Black's panda. Yes, to the serious fan of the movie I guess they are OK. But to anybody else, they are a waste of time. And there is nothing more than that.

Overall, not much can be said. It isn't good and its not even in CGI. Lets hope next time they can make a side feature that actually has the same animation skill as the main feature. "F"

Since I was fat during my school years, this animation gave me motivation. Panda's short film. It was fun.