Kung Fu Panda: Especial de Natal

I love, love, love this. The Kung Fu Panda holiday special is the only really good holiday special I've ever seen. I thought that it was extremely funny and extremely heart-warming. As always, great plot, great moral, great characters. Another perk was the rabbit chef who kept trying to fight Po to the death in order to reclaim his honor. I can't help but feel that without that rabbit the story would have sagged a bit. It's a truly beautiful short about how Po needs to choose between spending the Winter holiday with his Dad, and whether or not to fulfill his duties as the Dragon Warrior. Really touching. It may not be perfect, but it is nonetheless spectacular.

After Po was chosen to become the Dragon Warrior and defeated Tai Lung in the original KFP, he becomes appointed to host the Winter Feast at the Jade Palace for all 29 kung fu masters despite his needs to help his father Mr. Ping to prepare for the holidays. When he needed the Furious Five to help him prepare the annual at this time of year, he learns that spending time with a father is much more important than the annual feast and goes to his father which results in doing the right thing and the kung fu masters along with the Furious Five arrive for the holiday. Shifu goes there and is persuaded by Po to join him since he has a family.

Although, not as great as the original's plot, the plot in this holiday special wasn't that bad. The computer animation was beautiful with the same lovely visuals. The characters are once again likable and the voice acting was as perfect as the original's. Even the music from Hans Zimmer and John Powell (accompanied by Henry Jackman) was pretty good.

Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special would always be recommended to fans of the franchise as one of Dreamworks' wonderful holiday specials.

Rating: 9/10

Since I was fat during my school years, this animation gave me motivation. Panda's short film. It was fun. But it wasn't that good.

First let me say that the old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' are perfection to me. I find most new Christmas specials to be lacking in comparison. I gave this a 9 of 10, so that should tell you something.

Beautifully animated, extremely likeable characters and a very family-friendly Christmas story has earned this show a permanent place in my holiday must-watch lineup.

And Po is so adorable I can't stand it.

This is the Christmas related special of the Kung Fu Panda franchise. It isn't necessarily Christmas as it takes place in China but it is a holiday that takes place and contains similar themes to Christmas, so that is what makes it for Christmas. It is about Po figuring more about his role as the Dragon Master for the annual feast at the Jade Palace. He wants to do it at the palace and be with his father. It does help establish Po as a character by balancing what he has to do as the dragon warrior and what he wants. It does show more of Chinese culture with this holiday being part of this Chinese based franchise. I would recommend it.