Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The first installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, it was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, from a screenplay and story respectively written by the writing teams of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. The film stars the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong and Jackie Chan. The film, set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic animals, centers on a bumbling giant panda named Po, a kung fu enthusiast living in the Valley of Peace. When the savage snow leopard Tai Lung is foretold to escape imprisonment and attack the Valley, Po is unwittingly named the "Dragon Warrior", a prophesied hero worthy of reading a scroll that has been intended to grant its reader limitless power.
The film's publicized work began in October 2004, and was conceived by Michael Lachance, a DreamWorks Animation executive, originally as a parody of martial arts films. However, director Stevenson decided to instead make an action-comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character. The main characters' animation was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before. The project was officially announced in September 2005. Like most DreamWorks Animation films, the score for Kung Fu Panda was composed by Hans Zimmer, this time collaborating with John Powell; Zimmer visited China to absorb the culture, and used the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of the scoring process.
Kung Fu Panda premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2008, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 6. It grossed $631.7 million on a budget of $130 million, making it the third most successful film of 2008 and the highest-grossing animated film of the year worldwide, in addition to having the fourth-largest opening weekend for a DreamWorks film at the American and Canadian box office, behind the Shrek franchise. It received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for an Academy Award, as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Film, The film's success spawned a multimedia franchise, which comprises the sequels Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).
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| Image | Character | USA | Mex | Jap | Bra | Can(French) | Ger | Fra | Ita | Pol | Neth | Hun | Swe | Fin | Nor | Cro | Den | Gree | Ukr | Cze | Bul | Ice | Slo | Alb | Rom | Slove | Est | Lith | Russ | Russ(KarachayBalkar) | Spa(Catalan) | Spa | Por | Bel(Flemish) | Russ(KarachayBalkar2023) | Abk | Kor | Chin | Hong | Thai | Isr | Ind | Turk | Leb | Ira | Ira(Azerbaijani) | Taiw | Ira(GloryEntertainment) |
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Po | Jack Black | Omar Chaparro | Tatsuya Yamaguchi | LúcioMauro Filho | Hugolin ChevretteLandesque | Hape Kerkeling | Manu Payet | Fabio Volo | Marcin Hycnar | Edwin Evers | András Gáspár | Lawrence Mackrory | Tuomas Uusitalo | Anders Bye | Franjo Dijak | Rune Klan | Chrístos Thános | Yuriy Rebryk | Saša Rašilov | Nencho Balabanov | Hjalmar Hjalmarsson | Ivan Šandor | Ervin Bejleri | Șerban Pavlu | Klemen Slakonja | Tarmo Männard | Ramūnas Cicėnas | Mikhail Galustyan | Daniel Kaygermazov | Carles Di Blas | Florentino Fernández | Marco Horácio | Roel Vanderstukken | Aslan Botashov | Narsou Abıhwba | Um Sanghyun | Liu Feng | Eason Chan | Chawalit Simankhongtham | Dvir Benedek | Prasad Barve | Okan Yalabık | Toni Maalouf | Ali Bagherli | Mehdi Noorzadalala | Wilber Pan | Hamed Azizi |
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Shifu | Dustin Hoffman | Pedro ArmendárizJr. | Takashi Sasano | Leonardo Camilo | Guy Nadon | Gottfried John | Pierre Arditi | Eros Pagni | Jan Peszek | Rik Felderhof | László TóthTahi | Claes Ljungmark | Ismo Kallio | Ivar Nørve | Ljubomir Kerekeš | Søren Spanning | Tásos Masmanídis | Bohdan Stupka | Otakar Brouskst. | Georgi Georgiev | Arnar Jónsson | Marián Slovák | Bujar Asqeriu | Mihai Niculescu | Pavle Ravnohrib | Marko Matvere | Vytautas Rumšas | Alexander Khotchenkov | Zulkarney Tokhaev | Joaquín Díaz | José Raposo | Rikkert Van Dijck | Taulan Bayramkulov | Kim Ki-hyun | Wang Xiaobing | Sunny Chow | Rong Kaomulkadee | Shamil Ben Ari | Vinod Kulkarni | Köksal Engür | Khaled El Sayed | Mohsen Zarabadi | Masoud Majidi | Chin ShihChieh | Rahbar Nourbakhsh | ||
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Tigress | Angelina Jolie | Erica Edwards | Yoshino Kimura | Juliana Paes | Hélène Mondoux | Bettina Zimmermann | Marie Gillain | Francesca Fiorentini | Brygida Turowska | Yolanthe CabauvanKasbergen | Tamara Zsigmond | Petra Hultgren | Matleena Kuusniemi | Elin Sogn | Jasna Bilušić | Mille Dinesen | Yró Loúpi | Kateryna Konovalova | Tereza Bebarová | Svetlana Smoleva | Edda Björg Eyjólfsdóttir | Helena Krajčiová | MediGurra Kaciqi | Mihaela RusuIonescu | Tanja ĐurićRibič | Janne Ševtšenko | Rimantė Valiukaitė | Alisa Grebenshchikova | Zarema Tilova | Nuria Mediavilla | Fernanda Serrano | Ann Ceurvels | Maryana Albotova | Soyeon | Di Feifei | Denise Ho | Katreeya English | Sivan Shavit | Prachi Chaube | Deniz Uğur | Maria Aswad | Toktam Choobdar | Fatima Rashtbarian | Patty Hou | Sahar Choobdar | ||
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Tai Lung | Ian McShane | Blas García | Akira Nakao | Sérgio Fortuna | Pierre Chagnon | Thomas Fritsch | Marc Lavoine | Fabrizio Pucci | Wiktor Zborowski | Sander de Heer | Ákos Kőszegi | Magnus Roosmann | Seppo Pääkkönen | Paul-Ottar Haga | Aleksandar Cvjetković | Jens Jørn Spottag | Yiánnis Stefópoulos | Mykhaylo Zhonin | Miroslav Táborský | Nikolay Urumov | Ólafur Darri Ólafsson | Matej Landl | Gëzim Rudi | Mișu Dinvale | Valter Dragan | Raivo E. Tamm | Vladimir Antonik | Alim Chochaev | Juan Carlos Gustems | Joaquim deAlmeida | Rustambek Batchiev | An Jang-hyeok | Cheng Yuzhu | Ko HonMan | Piya Wimouktayon | Yoram Yosefsberg | Samay RajThakkar | Mazlum Kiper | Ghassan Estephan | Mahbod Ghanaatpisheh | Ali Yavari | Clement Fu | Hooman Khaiyat | ||||
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Monkey | Jackie Chan | VíctorAntonio Moreno | Hiroya Ishimaru | Ricardo Schnetzer | François L'Écuyer | Stefan Gossler | William Coryn | Angelo Maggi | Jarosław Boberek | Jörgen Raymann | Károly Kassai | Janne Westerlund | Tommi Evilä | Tshawe Baqwa | Filip Juričić | Søren HauchFausbøll | Giórgos Papadópoulos | Andriy Saminin | Filip Švarc | Dicho Hristov | Björn Thorarensen | Pavol Plevčík | Arben Derhemi | Eugen Cristea | Klemen Mauhler | Argo Aadli | Marius Jampolskis | Ilya Lagutenko | Timur Uyanov | Luis Posada | Pedro Rodrigues | Jean-Marie Pfaff | Murat Uzdenov | Ha Seong-yong | Jackie Chan | Jackie Chan | Suwat Wattanapiriyamorn | Didi Harari | Amar Babaria | Murat Aydın | Sami Daher | Ashkan Sadeghi | Yusuf Akbarzadeh | Jackie Chan | Vahid Ronaghi | ||
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Mantis | Seth Rogen | Raúl Anaya | Takuya Kirimoto | Marco Ribeiro | Tristan Harvey | Tobias Kluckert | Xavier Fagnon | Simone Mori | Krzysztof Banaszyk | Rogier Komproe | Máté Szabó | Hasse Brontén | Arttu Wiskari | Yosef WoldeMariam | Krešimir Mikić | Jesper Pedersen | Leonídas Kakoúris | Anatoliy Pashnin | Michal Holán | Petar Kalchev | Valdimar ÖrnFlygenring | Martin Kaprálik | Dritan Boriçi | Damian Oancea | Bojan Emeršič | Tõnu Oja | Dalius Skamarakas | Oleg Kutsenko | Kazim Eneev | Xavier Fernández | João Ricardo | Pieter Embrechts | Muhammad Bayramkulov | Bang Seong-jun | Wu Lei | Sam Lee | Krin Aksorndee | Amnon Wolf | Kishore Bhatt | Kadir Çermik | Tony Sassi | Alireza Salar Kia | Behnam Qadiri | Liu Chieh | Alireza Taheri | ||
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Viper | Lucy Liu | Liliana Barba | MEGUMI | Priscila Amorim | Michèle Lituac | Cosma Shiva Hagen | Mylène Jampanoï | Tiziana Avarista | Izabella Bukowska | Froukje de Both | Ági Kökényessy | Josephine Bornebusch | Iina Kuustonen | Lisa Tønne | Sanja Mariná | Puk Scharbau | María Zervoú | Iryna Tkalenko | Nela Boudová | Vasilka Sugareva | Esther Talia Casey | Petra Vajdová | Klodjana Keco | Alina Tomi | Pia Zemljič | Eva Püssa | Anna Semenovich | Fatima Otarova | Graciela Molina | Diana Chaves | Kadèr Gürbüz | Fatima Khubieva | Yang Jeonghwa | Zhan Jia | Josie Ho | Sukonthawa Koetnimit | Dikla Hadar | Toshi Sinha | Deniz Çakır | Nada AbouFarhat | Dianoush Asef Vaziri | Nazila Babapour | Fiona Cheng | Sanaz Gholami | |||
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Crane | David Cross | Moisés Iván Mora | Mitsuaki Madono | Philippe Maia | Gilbert Lachance | Ralf Schmitz | Tomer Sisley | Danilo De Girolamo | Tomasz Bednarek | Thom Hoffman | László Bor | Jakob Stadell | Kari Ketonen | Christoffer Staib | Ozren Grabarić | Christian Damsgaard | Néstor Kopsidás | Volodymyr Holosnyak | Zbyšek Pantůček | Todor Nikolov | Valur Freyr Einarsson | Igor Krempaský | Gentian Zenelaj | Cristin Tomi | Jernej Kuntner | Indrek Sammul | Vytautas Rašimas | Alexander Gavrilin | Ismail Kuchmezov | Albert Trifol Segarra | Jorge Mourato | Peter Van Gucht | Zaur Laypanov | Jeon Kwang-ju | Hai Fan | Jaycee Chan | Chakkrarat Srirak | Ido Mosseri | Shanoor Mirza | Altan Erkekli | Jihad El Andari | Sahand Taheri | Mehdi Noorzadalala | Li Shih Yang | Mohammad Reza Solati | ||
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Oogway | Randall Duk Kim | Esteban Siller | Kôsei Tomita | Jomeri Pozzoli | Vincent Davy | Jochen Schröder | Pierre Bonzans | Dante Biagioni | Andrzej Gawroński | Rients Gratama | László Versényi | Hans Wahlgren | Ossi Ahlapuro | Per Skjølsvik | Božidar Smiljanić | Henning Moritzen | Kóstas Darlásis | Vasylʹ Mazur | Dalimil Klapka | Petar Evangelatov | Harald G. Haralds | František Kovár | Ahmet Pasha | Ion Arcudeanu | Tone Kuntner | Boris Bystrov | Zarif Bapinaev | Eduardo Muntada | João Lagarto | Jef Demedts | Rashid Karaketov | Jeong Gi-hang | Wu Wenlun | Tam PingMan | Nikhom Sunthornpitak | Dov Reiser | Pradeep Shukla | Müşfik Kenter | Maurice Moussally | Mohammad Molki Asl | Sun Chung Tai | Mehrdad Raissi | |||||
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Mr. Ping | James Hong | Ismael Castro | Naoki Tatsuta | Pietro Mário | Hubert Gagnon | Lutz Mackensy | Michel Tureau | Francesco Vairano | Wojciech Paszkowski | Rob van de Meeberg | Kalva Bohuslav | Calle Carlswärd | Pekka Autiovuori | Hallvard Lydvo | Branimir Vidić | Paul Hüttel | Spýros Bimpílas | Mykola Lutsenko | Bohuslav Kalva | Christian Fokov | Guðmundur Ólafsson | Dušan Kaprálik | Vasjan Lami | Sorin Medeleni | Iztok Valič | Matti Vaikmaa | Liubomiras Laucevičius | Oleg Forostenko | Aleksandr Bachiev | Eduardo Doncos | Juan Fernández | Octávio Matos | Jacques Vermeire | Biaslan Lepshokov | Ki Young-do | Yan Kam Wah | Kittiwat Gaysorn | Ohad Shachar | Prithvi Sankhala | Ahmet Eres | Ali Al-Zein | Sun Decheng | Mehrdad Raissi | ||||
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Zeng | Dan Fogler | Óscar Flores | Wataru Takagi | Reginaldo Primo | Martin Watier | Gerald Schaale | Pascal Sellem | Massimiliano Alto | Zbigniew Suszyński | Huub Dikstaal | Imre Józsa | Ole Ornered | Juha Varis | Duc Mai-The | Alen Šalinović | Peter Pilegaard | Stélios Kalathás | Pavlo Skorokhodʹko | Michal Novotný | Georgi Stoyanov | Atli Rafn Sigurðsson | Ľuboš Kostelný | Lorenc Kaja | Florian Ghimpu | Jan Bučar | Ilya Blednyy | Timur Sozaev | Aleix Estadella | Manuel Marques | Matthias Schoenaerts | Ibragim Aybazov | Jun Tae-youl | Zhai Wei | Kinson Lai | Nathapong Theerasuwan | Sanchit Wartak | Yiğit Özşener | Dany Boustany | Ryan Huang | Mohammad Reza Solati | |||||||
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Commander Vachir | MichaelClarke Duncan | Rubén Moya | Daisuke Gôri | Bruno Rocha | Benoît Rousseau | Tilo Schmitz | Philippe Dumond | Claudio Fattoretto | Piotr Bąk | Murth Mossel | Gábor Vass | Bengt Skogholt | Sam Huber | Harald Aastorp | Žarko Savić | Morten Staugaard | Manólis Gioúrgos | Anatoliy Chumachenko | Lukáš Hlavica | Georgi Ivanov | Magnús Jónsson | Vladimír Jedľovský | Sheri Mita | Sandu Mihai Gruia | Jure Košir | Vladimir Zaitsev | Takhir Julabov | Jordi Royo | Olavo Bilac | Aliy Laypanov | Han Sang-deok | Yin Lei | Davy To Burnard | Suphason Mumdaengm | Rajesh Jolly | Tarkan Koç | George Diab | Lin Ku Chen | Keyvan Askari | ||||||||
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Gang Boss | Wayne Knight | Rolando de Castro | Taiten Kusunoki | Bruno Rocha | Pierre Therrien | Karl Schulz | Jean-Luc Atlan | Roberto Draghetti | Michal Skarzynski | Róbert Bolla | Pasi Ruohonen | Øyvind B. Lyse | Zoran Gogić | Lars Thiesgaard | Tomáš Juřička | Cosmin Șofron | Boris Tokarev | Javier Amilibia | José Nobre | David Verbeeck | Lee Won-deok | Chakarin Thongprasat | Simcha Barbiro | Swapnil Kumari | Bekir Cicekdemir | George Diab | Wu Wenmin | ||||||||||||||||||||
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KG Shaw | Kyle Gass | Víctor Ugarte | Norman Matt | Paolo Bernardini | Tamás Dene | Cosmin Șofron | Yang Jun-gun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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JR Shaw | JR Reed | Arturo Mercado Jr. | José Leonardo | Klaus-Peter Hoppe | Simone Veltroni | András Borbíró | Florin Dinu | Arsen Salpagarov | Lee Jin-hong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Smitten Bunny | Tanya Haden | Magdalena Questa | Mizuho Saitō | Aline Ghezzi | Melanie Laberge | Anja Rybiczka | Manon Le Moal | Francesca Rinaldi | Elzbieta Kopocinska | Susa Saukko | Anne Kari Kongsrud | Annevig ScheldeEbbe | Inga María Valdimarsdóttir | Silvana Ionescu | Viktoriya Lykalova | Silvia Gómez | Claudia Cadima | Veerle Cueppens | Samira Gappoeva | Han Kyeonghwa | Thansini Thongprasat | Adi Kozlovsky | Swapnil Kumari | Songul Bayoglu | Zeina Melki | Carey Yang | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gong Pig | Stephen Kearin | Arturo Mercado | Andreas Müller | Florin Dinu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grateful Bunny | Stephen Kearin | Mario Castañeda | Jun Suzuki | Marcelo Coutinho | Jean-Luc Montminy | Andreas Müller | Gérard Surugue | Mauro Magliozzi | Leszek Zduń | Markku Huhtamo | Duc Mai-The | Lars Thiesgaard | Cosmin Șofron | Alexander Ryzhkov | JoséClaudio Ruíz | Tiago Retrê | Edwig Van Elsen | Dmitriy Klyuchinkov | Lee Jin-hong | Khomsan Ratthanakondi | Simcha Barbiro | Rajan Gavali | Berk Avci | Toni Ashkar | Matthew Liang | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pig Patron | Mark Osborne | Erick Salinas | Klaus Lochthove | Robert Tondera | Cosmin Șofron | Yang Jun-gun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blind Gator | Jeremy Shipp | Rodrigo Carralero | Katsuhiro Kitagawa | Gutemberg Barros | Olivier Normand | Moritz Marquardt | Kader Boukhanef | Daniele Valenti | Jakub Szydlowski | Antti Pääkkönen | Christoffer Staib | Troells Toya | Cosmin Șofron | Anton Pozdneyev | Pablo Gómez | JoséJorge Duarte | Olivier Anciaux | Yang Jun-gun | Chakarin Thongprasat | Sharon Cohen | Rajan Gavali | Alper Kalelioglu | Fadi Shammas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhino Guard | John Wayne Stevenson | Andrés García | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bunny Mom | Melissa Cobb | Maggie Vera | Sophie Chevalier | Silvana Ionescu | Jung Hyunkyung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Baby Tai Lung | Riley Osborne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awed Ninja | Laura Kightlinger | Rebeca Gómez | Kanae Takeuchi | Marcia Coutinho | Alexandre Fortin | Stefan Meszerits | Dorothée Metayer | Tenerezza Fattore | Magdalena Rozczka | Susa Saukko | MetteLindberg Gulbrandsen | Annevig ScheldeEbbe | Silvana Ionescu | Yekaterina Pligina | Rafa Parra | Claudia Cadima | David Verbeeck | Samira Bayramkulova | Jung Hyunkyung | Kosin Chachawannon | Natalie Pik | Swapnil Kumari | Nagihan Ersoy | Claudine Sfeir | Ryan Huang | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bunny Fan 1 | Emily Robinson | Alan García | Ronja Trachler | Ralf Savu | Han Kyeonghwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bunny Fan 2 | Stephanie Harvey | Jonas Frenz | Andreea Prossi | Seo Ji-yeon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pig Fan | Kent Osborne | Michelle Fuschlberger | Florin Dinu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title | N/A | Elbrus Borlakov | Mohsen Partovi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trailer[]
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Po | Alfredo Gabriel Basurto | Cláudio Galvan | Sérgio Stern |
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