Why Are There SO MANY Kung Fu Panda Ripoffs?

they say if you gaze long enough into an abyss the abyss gazes back into you so back in February of this year I did a video about Finding Nemo and why it has so many ripoffs but there's another franchise that gets ripped off quite often kung fu' Panda [Music] I'm mainly doing this video because they get a lot of people who request these movies for reviews so I figured hey let's just do it all in one big video knock them all out at the same time that way things don't get sooo repetitive with me reviewing one bad panda movie and then another bad panda movie and then another bad Panda movie trust me I'm doing you all favor before we talk about these awful ripoffs it only makes sense to talk about the source of all this plagiarism Kung Fu Panda a trilogy of movies that was made by DreamWorks for the record I'm gonna keep this brief talking about Kung Fu Panda and what it's done can be a video in and of itself so if you want to watch something about that go check out Kosmos video he did a great job talking about the trilogy and everything about it but here for this video we're gonna hit up the see stuff the first Kung Fu Panda movie was released in 2008 and it did very well with both critics and financially and it would go on to become one of the main pillars of DreamWorks Animation I love it because the folks who made this movie wanted to make something fun but authentic the capture the culture and history of China along with a genuine approach to kung fu and that regard DreamWorks did a fantastic job so much so that the Chinese government itself went why didn't we make this how did some american studio make a better movie about china then china i also love that one of the main inspirations behind this film was kung fu hustle which is arguably one of the cartoonists live action movies ever made again checkout Kosmas video if you want to learn more about Kung Fu Panda but for this video all you got to know has that Kung Fu Panda became one of the most popular animated franchises in the world and unfortunately that caught some people's attention okay so let's go with these awful Panda clones just a heads up I'm gonna keep these reviews short sweet and to the point if I don't they're all just morph into a giant black and white ball of garbage so our first ripoff is chop kick Panda from 2011 the story is about a panda named Zeebo and how he has dreams of becoming a legendary kung-fu master and if you have any doubt that this movie is ripping off Kung Fu Panda well just watch the scene legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend there once lived a legendary fighter a fighter so legendary that his legend was legendary down right shameless so this janitor panda has a son and he lies to him about being a kung fu master a bunch of the sons friends come to sleep over at the dojo but then they get attacked by two villains Zeebo the Panda then wears a magical amulet and becomes the dragon wolf the the chosen one [Music] got a few complaints about this movie first off the panda sounds like Peter Griffin I don't know if it's just me but that's all I hear hey Lois remember that one time I became a panda I hate to interrupt this love fest but have you seen Grandmaster Han chop cake Panda is a blatant ripoff but somehow by some miracle it's also incredibly boring just a bunch of static characters standing around combined with dialogue that falls back on pop-culture references and I mean that like they're bringing up star wars characters if you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine for the love of Pete don't start with the Yoda quotes you did that when we were kids and it drove me bonkers and here's the thing folks this is one of the better ripoffs when it comes to quality yeah things are going to get that bad you really know how to rape people wait what after that we have kung fu rooster check it out we're mixing it up with a chicken instead of a panda released in August of 2019 this is the most recent example of Kung Fu Panda plagiarism but that isn't too shocking coming from Wow now entertainment just look at the collection of trash Oh funny pets - you actually made something worse than illumination that's impressive not funny comfy rooster is about some kid being trained by a rooster to be a kung fu master so he can defeat the purple monster thing that I don't care about first off this movie is confusing it starts off with a recap from a previous film which I had no idea that this movie was even a sequel I think it's part of an ongoing movie series called kung-fu masters but all of the info and context about it I can't find it they just release the film's without any kind of direction of how to watch it it is super confusing but what about kungfu rooster well it's boring incredibly boring oh you're boring me the movie does a poor job of making me care about the characters and what's at stake for the story the villain purple flying guy is going to take over the sacred valley I don't give a [ __ ] you will be very pleased to hear you got unappealing character models laggy movement fake slow motion and for some reason these voice actors have a very strange cadence they pause like this while they talk in their sentences also there's a character in this movie - who sounds like Peter Griffin why is this a recurring theme it shouldn't be you're such a big boo-boo head when the ants done with Hoffman will hand over these chickens then you and me we'll be on easy street next we have the legend of kung fu rabbit from 2011 so I think that the Chinese government helped with the creation of this one since the Beijing Film Academy has a state-run establishment and again I just can't understand why this movies about a rabbit and not about a bear I just can't put my finger on it tongue for rabbit has the most competent movie on this list of ripoffs but that's not saying much the models look like they're from a TV show as far as the quality goes and the movement of the characters is passable and the voice acting isn't terrible either scooping up the dough and you know what no I was wrong it's bad and why the hell is Rebecca black in this movie she's a voice actor I didn't know you guys can do better than this stuff quit ripping people off get out of here geez pretty [ __ ] oh come on you got Michael Clarke Duncan for your movie too he's already gone but the tablet will be mine your prison may not be adequate oh and there's Napoleon Dynamite as well you're in a lot of bad movies dude but what about the story we have this fat rabbit who randomly gains kung fu powers from some dying monkey master no it's not Moses Ethan has to go deliver some message to this cat character one thing leads to another and he defeats this evil panda on accident see the de pandas the bad guy our movie is completely different this movie thought the most like Kung Fu Panda with its story characters and setting it also has a sequel that looks much better than the original I literally discovered this while writing the script and I did not have time to watch it but I might have to double back on this one after that we have the adventures of panda warrior from legend toon land from 2012 what an interesting filmography and out of all of the ripoffs on this Panda plagiarism list this one is the most outrageous you got terrible motion capture SOLAS background characters fart jokes animation clipping fake slow motion an over-the-top story that's incredibly hard to follow or voice acting and probably some of the most clashing character designs I've ever seen they all look like they're from different movies and get this most of them show up in a single scene it's bonkers the story goes like this Rob Schneider yep it's one of those kinds of movies is a human soldier who turns into a panda and goes to the magical world of Maryland met marylande met maybe it's Baltimore a peaceful place where people live in harmony and it's called Maryland [ __ ] he then meets a ninja pig with flesh tendrils on her head and she leads him on some random adventure with the help of the seven wonders they go off to okay follow me here defeat a cosmic whale that was taken over by a mouse that then transformed into a nine headed snake transforming himself into a terrifying nine headed snake he was too powerful for anyone to resist hey I don't know that's the story like I'm being real with you guys this film is the definition of insanity and I'm pretty sure a four-year-old kid both wrote and directed it then there's a little panda fighter this is probably the most infamous of the Kung Fu Panda ripoffs and I can understand why it's [ __ ] ugly as hell [Music] and for those who haven't seen this film whatever you think this movie might be about it's not the stories about pan cotta a janitor had some boxing restaurants his boss Polaris wants a fight and the boxing ring but can't because he signed some kind of contract so the boss disguises himself and fights in the ring while everybody thinks it's the Panda and the Panda things that everybody stoked on him because of his dancing but then he discovers the truth how'd it go boss did you win the fight not exactly you won kid I mean I won you see that costume you was shrunk so bad how did it look like a polar bear I look like a panda and let me guess everybody thought there was me up there right you nailed it on the head kid and here I thought they were all excited about my dancing he then for some reason wants to fight against a challenger and threatens his boss that he'll blow the whistle on him I'm not letting you near that ring you got that I fought thunders the last time I'm not gonna fight him this time and I don't want to hear any more from you mister Polaris I'm prepared to blow the whistle to everybody including the papers unless you unconditionally allow me to go into the ring against teddy thunders he then goes through a training montage and gets his ass kicked but his boss figured that this would probably happen gambled a bunch of money and put it on the Challenger took the money skipped town and gave the establishment to the Panda who then turned the place into a dance restaurant yep for a movie that's trying to copy kung-fu pandas vibe this story couldn't be more opposite and the voice acting is something else like you got dan green from Yukio along with the voice of Meowth - wasn't expecting that just like when you were fighting Polaris no one could beat you either you were champ for three years until you retired and open this place outside of the terrible story you also have bad delivery from the voice actors a boring setting with lackluster background assets and textures repetitive music god-awful edits that mess with the flow of the story and then these nightmarish character designs that look like a bunch of five nights at Freddy's rejects well that was unexpected you know that I'm just I'm just pang cata right the same old me you know [Music] and finally we have the prodigy it is one you all to know that I had to order this movie off of Amazon yeah I am that dedicated to you all suffering alongside me this is easily the most boring of the selections on the list there weren't large chunks of the movie where nothing happened heck they don't even explain the characters or their motivations until like 20 minutes into the film so we have this anime girl and her Kung Fu Panda master the girl gets a crush on this prince guy but then he randomly gets kidnapped by some people the girl and the Panda go off to rescue him and we're told about the Dragon King and how he's the one keeping the Prince hostage for whatever reason by the way the villain wasn't mentioned until 30 minutes into the film and we don't see him until an hour end and this is literally how he dies [Music] so what else do we got well not to sound repetitive but bad character designs bad move men's god-awful voice acting crappy music dead eyes on characters a lot of clipping and a layer of fog over the visuals that continues throughout the entire film oh and one of the characters sound like dexter from dexters lab you are out stupid that was awful if the prince was not out carousing with you this would have never happened you beneath him where there was too much going on in adventures a panda warrior the opposite happens here nothing happens they do a very poor job of establishing the characters and an even worse job with the story give me a reason to care about this anime girl why should I care about this prince who I know nothing about he just shows up gets kidnapped and I'm supposed to care about that I don't know how they made this a 77 minute long film it's utterly ridiculous [Music] oh and according to the cover of this movie some of the animators and artists who worked on Shrek and shark tales worked on this movie but for the life of me I couldn't find out who maybe they wanted their names taken off of the credits and I don't blame them it's actually kind of sad because I watched some other behind the scenes stuff for this film and the character designs aren't that bad but dear Lord did they drop the ball be careful how you thought okay GU all fart what okay so why are there so many Kung Fu Panda ripoffs I asked this question during my Finding Nemo video so it only makes sense to ask it here as well also it's the title of the freakin video yeah honestly it's pretty simple money and avoiding copyright the first reason is a no-brainer whenever something popular is created there will always be imitators those who want to ride the tailcoats of success with the hope of being noticed for one reason or another maybe grandma bought this movie for you by mistake or perhaps you thought hey maybe this is a sequel or maybe you just want to watch it to rip on it but honestly who does that as far as copyright goes these companies and studios know how to walk the line and create something that is similar into the original property but different enough to avoid being sued over it oh no no this my good friend is the little panda finder it is completely different but why couldn't there have been one ripoff that was good something of substance that doesn't steal from Kung Fu Panda but is instead inspired by it some chinchou chinchou by a magician newton do not play make a wish and throw down mate get down tuxedos and then Jojo what is this oh okay you yeah you great warrior wall is it yeah you're getting your own video see you all next week finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary [Music]

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Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 27 2019