The Little Panda Fighter 123movies - Watch The Little Panda Fighter online, free at 123movies. Stream The Little Panda Fighter Free Online. Watch 123movies Free. Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins. Jun 20, 2006 Little Princess School made it to Worst Girl Cartoons at #2 (November 14, 2017). Little Panda Fighter made it to Worst Kung Fu Animated Movies at #3 (October 9, 2019). Some of Video Brinquedo's mockbusters (Little Princess School and Little & Big Monsters) were cooperated with Morningstar Entertainment. One movie, two IMDB reviews. Save hide report. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. Original Poster 2 points 6 days ago. The movie is Urshinho da Pesada, apparently a rip off of Kung Fu Panda. “The Little Panda Fighter”.
Our first foray into the cheap, deceptive land of the mockbuster dawns with two ripoff movies for the low price of one, The Little Panda Fighter and Chop Kick Panda, respectively exploiting the success of both Kung Fu Panda (2008) and Kung fu Panda 2 (2011), with both releasing alongside the bigger animated movie counterparts to cash-in.
Renegade Animation’s Chop Kick Panda tells the story of Lu, or Zibo, either one. Internet sources and dialogue within the film itself are telling me Zibo, where, rather inconsistently, the synopsis on the back of this DVD (that incidentally cost me all of fifty pence) is naming our panda protagonist Lu. Lu is described in the blurb as a “large (okay, fat)” panda who, much like Po of the original films, dreams of becoming a kung-fu master. Even the blurb on the back of this children’s DVD hates its own counterfeit character, fat-shaming him off the bat. We have not yet begun analysis on the plot and film itself and the DVD cover is already exposing itself as the inept and deformed replicant of the soundalike blockbuster that it is.
The panda martial-arts film is contained in an awkward running time of forty minutes, making it too short for a feature-length animation and too long in duration for a short the likes of some of Pixar’s more artistic short films. Either way, it is nearly an hour of my life I could have spent developing my own cheap mockbuster, Fe-Man or Captain El Mexicana, perhaps.
Plot, as audiences should expect, mirrors that of the Kung fu Panda movie, albeit significantly simplifying the wuxia narrative that it attempts to replicate, and barely manages to incorporate the hero’s journey story in the limited running time. Characters poorly mimic those of the authentic film, with comparisons primarily drawn between Lu/Zibo and Po, with evil tiger Kudo directly lifting from character Tai Lung. Shame towards one’s family is often a consistent theme within Hong Kong cinema, with the likes of Jackie Chan often embarrassing his on-screen fathers, yet shame is a concept this film fails to grasp as it launches its broken-mirror image.
It has to be said that animation production value of this film, though basic, is a step above many of its kind, The Little Panda Fighter included, though who the three behind-the-scenes animation sequences are aimed is a little confusing, as if the artists involved are a little proud of their poorly carbon copied panda. Voices, however, are not synchronised well with the rudimentary mouth movements that makes every character look like they are chewing the thick fat of the anthropomorphic cartoon creatures.
Voice-acting (often striking somewhere between slightly offensive and about as natural as those within Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls franchise) of course does not hold the light-hearted charm of Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Ian McShane, Aneglina Jolie, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu, instead shamelessly opting for the dulcet tones of some guys that don’t even have profile photographs on iMBD, with credits that include ILB: Major of Halo 2. Everybody remember him? Man, I sure loved that character.
Chop Kick Panda attempts and fails at some intertextual humour, especially notable in one instance wherein Jar Jar Binks is brought up at random during a fight as a character expresses his distaste for also nobodys’ favourite Star Wars character, a reference ten years too late. It is evident that Danny Katiana is reaching for the same level of natural loveable laziness that Jack Black achieves, but the only humour that arises does so as audiences knowingly mock the trash film.
Darrell Van Citter’s (that must be a pseudonym, right?) film is, as expressed before, not as awful as it typically could be, letting Brazilian film The Little Panda Fighter (or Heavy’s Little Bear) take the spot for worst Kung Fu Panda mockbuster yet. Pancanda works at a boxing club, instead of noodle restaurant, and one day dreams of becoming a dancer, instead of a kung fu master. In this regard, we could (almost) have ourselves a convention-breaking movie more than a wuxia, with a narrative akin to Billy Elliot and less of a direct plot resemblance than that of Chop Kick Panda. Or, our slightly earlier mockbuster just didn’t want to go full mockbuster. You never go full mockbuster.
Vídeo Brinquedo’s film was released to coincide with the first Kung Fu Panda movie, so I guess we could call it the original ripoff, and runs at an impressive fifty minutes, a whole ten minutes more than Chop Kick Panda! In this instance, the phrase less is more becomes extremely relevant.
If the voice-over is out-of-synch in Chop Kick Panda, then the audio track is running on an alternate program in a parallel universe in this dire replica. Where Renegade perhaps cleverly opted for a more simplistic animation style (after suggesting otherwise with a more impressively designed DVD sleeve), Vídeo Brinquedo’s direct-to-video title tries for 3D animation that those who grew up with children’s video games in the 1990’s should be familiar with, only transcending to a much more technically inept plane of existence.
Somehow, the English-dub is more meagre than what we would traditionally expect from dubbed voice-over on foreign language films, perhaps aggravated by the irregular jolty dance sequences backed by a repetitively grating theme that will have you begging for death before the end. With vivid primary colour pallets that forces you to squint your eyes, foley that sounds awfully loyalty-free, and facial animations and body movements that are unintentionally creepier than the animatronic characters from Five Nights at Freddy’sThe Little Panda Fighter earns its well-deserved bad movie mockbuster label.
Finally I would like to call to attention a specific line from within the film: “I see a lot of raw talent that, given some time, could be developed with proper training.” This line could almost self-referentially be in regards to the filmmakers and animators themselves, with director Michelle Gabriel also lending a hand in the animation, as if there was some hope that Disney, Dreamworks or Pixar might take notice of the sub-par, rogue animators as they pat themselves on the back for finishing this monstrosity.
This is merely the beginning of a long and winding road through the fringe movie industry, and though the latter film has made me feel almost unclean in its execution, both aim to deceive the most naive of audiences most aptly deceived – children. otherwise, a drop of alcohol and a pinch of ironic viewing may make these films contextually not so dreadful.
Rent? Buy? Illegally download?
Might I suggest drinking bleach and chasing it down with a shot drain cleaner as an alternative?
Chop Kick Panda – 2.1/10
The Little Panda Fighter – 0.8/10
Lu marginally wins this martial arts bout.
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| Founded | 1986; 34 years ago |
| Founder | Fernando Francielli Ale McHaddo |
| Headquarters | , |
| Maurício Milani Michele Gabriel | |
| Parent | Rexmore Widea |
| Website | videobrinquedo.com.br |
Vídeo Brinquedo (also known as Toyland Video and Video Toys, and formerly known as VBF Produções and Spot Films) is a Brazilian animation studio, located in São Paulo,[1] that produces direct-to-video animated films widely viewed as mockbusters of comparable films from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Studios, Blue Sky Studios, Hasbro Studios, Sony Pictures Animation and Astley Baker Davies. The company was founded in 1986 to distribute animation with the intention of distribution in its home market of Brazil, as well as to other global markets.[2] The company has been active since 1986.
Background[edit]
For the first nine years, Vídeo Brinquedo distributed home video releases of shows such as Sonic X and The Little Lulu Show in the Brazilian market.[1]
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One of the studio's early distributions was an obscure religious-themed cartoon called United Submarine. This title sold only a few copies until the release of the 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo. United Submarine and Finding Nemo had several similarities, such as the presence of a clownfish and a story centered on parent-child relationship. From the huge number of sales the company had on the cartoon, Brinquedo wanted to start not only distributing cartoons but also create their own.[1]
Brinquedo's first animations were traditional, 2D-styled, based on fairy tales and classics such as Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs, but with scripts that modernized the characters.[1] They later expanded to 3D animation, their first title being The Little Cars (Portuguese: Os Carrinhos),[3][4][5] loosely based on the 2006 Pixar animated film Cars. Originally aimed at children between two and three years old, over 3,000 copies were sold in more than 12 countries.[1]
The original idea of the company was to jump on trends raised by the major studios and start production of animation with two to three years in advance. With the company borrowing ideas established in Hollywood, company director Mauricio Milani stated: 'We tried to imagine what it will be in evidence'.[1]
Originally released with a Brazilian Portuguese soundtrack, many of Vídeo Brinquedo's titles were co-produced with Rexmore Company do Brasil,[3] and distributed in North America by Branscome International,[6] and MorningStar Entertainment with English and Spanish soundtracks.
The films are often only just over 40 minutes in length, the minimum required to qualify as a feature film and awards qualification.
Filmography[edit]
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| Year | Title | Original |
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| 2006 | The Little Cars: The Great Race | Cars |
| 2007 | The Little Cars 2: Rodopolis Adventures | Cars |
| 2007 | Ratatoing | Ratatouille |
| 2007 | Gladiformers | Transformers |
| 2007 | The Little Cars 3: Fast and Curious | Cars and The Fast and the Furious |
| 2008 | The Little Panda Fighter | Kung Fu Panda |
| 2008 | Tiny Robots | Robots or WALL-E |
| 2008 | Little Princess School | Disney Princess |
| 2008 | The Little Cars 4: New Genie Adventures | Cars |
| 2009 | Little Bee | Bee Movie |
| 2009 | Gladiformers 2 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
| 2009 | Little & Big Monsters | Monsters vs. Aliens |
| 2009 | What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue | Up |
| 2009 | The Frog Prince | The Princess and the Frog |
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Film distribution[edit]
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Besides producing its own animated movies, Vídeo Brinquedo has also distributed DVDs of foreign cartoons like Sonic X, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Little Lulu, Batfink, and a number of lesser-known fairy tale films made by Video Treasures (now Anchor Bay Entertainment).[7] However, one of its most controversial distributions is Mega Powers!, which bears a close resemblance to the series Power Rangers and Super Sentai, but was not produced by Vídeo Brinquedo themselves. The series is a production of Intervalo Produções.[8]
Criticism[edit]
Vídeo Brinquedo's films have been heavily criticised for their very poor animation, voice acting, and questionable writing alongside scenes which merely exist to fill the running time so the film in question can qualify as 'feature length'. Erik Henriksen, a reporter from The Portland Mercury, criticized Vídeo Brinquedo as being 'the laziest/cheapest movie studio of all time,' due to similarities between its releases and the films of other animation studios, such as Pixar.[9]
In his review of Ratatoing, a reviewer on ToonZone said: 'If you ate a copy of the worst cartoon you could think of, you'd still probably crap something better than Ratatoing', and went on to bemoan the animation quality, calling the movie as a whole 'a senseless waste of raw materials' and 'a waste of time, energy and effort for all parties concerned'.[10]
Marco Aurélio Canônico of Folha de S. Paulo, who criticized the Little Cars series as a copy of the Pixar film Cars, and likewise Ratatoing and Ratatouille, discussed whether lawsuits from Pixar would appear. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marco Aurélio Canônico's article on its website.[11]Virgin Media also stated, 'Even by the ocean-floor-scraping standards of Vídeo Brinquedo, it's a shameless knock-off'.[12]
Disney's legal department was contacted by a reporter through a spokesperson about a potential lawsuit, but Milani did not comment.[1]
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In other media[edit]
Two of Vídeo Brinquedo's productions were parodied in an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball called 'The Treasure', in which Gumball picks up a mockbuster DVD called How to Ratatwang Your Panda. The film is a cross between The Little Panda Fighter and Ratatoing.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefg'Estúdio brasileiro, 2007' (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- ^'Empresa'. Vídeo Brinquedo. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
- ^ ab'Vídeo Brinquedo'. Vídeo Brinquedo. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^'The Little Cars in the Great Race'. All Movie. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^'Os Carrinhos'. Vídeo Brinquedo. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
- ^'Branscome International'. Branscome International. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
- ^http://www.publicacaodigital.com.br/videobrinquedo2/#
- ^http://www.mm.animator.com.br/quem-somos.html
- ^'RIP, Pixar.Archived 2 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine', The Portland Mercury
- ^Review on Toonzone.net
- ^'Vídeo Brinquedo faz sucesso com desenhos como “Os Carrinhos” e “Ratatoing”Archived 29 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.' Folha de S. Paulo at Ministry of Culture (Brazil). 2 September 2007. Retrieved on 16 April 2011.
- ^Most blatant movie rip-offs: The Little Cars (2006). Virgin Media Accessed from 23 September 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website(in Portuguese)
- Vídeo Brinquedo on IMDb