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The Little Panda Fighter ( Full Movie With Text Commentary) Topics dec3199, the little panda fighter, kung fu panda, movie, ripoff, commentary, mockbuster. The Little Panda Fighter. The Little Panda Fighter (titled Ursinho da Pesada in Brazil and previously titled Heavy's Little Bear) is a 2008 Brazilian direct-to-video computer-animated sports action comedy film directed by Michelle Gabriel. The film has drawn criticism as a mockbuster of the DreamWorks Animation film Kung Fu Panda.
- Angst? What Angst?: Pancada is completely happy about the fact that Polaris bet against him in the final fight.
- Bile Fascination: As it's known as one of the worst films of one of the worst animation studios in the world, many who see it just want to see how bad it can get.
- Ham and Cheese: J. David Brimmer (aka Odion) is CLEARLY having fun playing Polaris.
- Idiot Plot: The entire plot depends on everybody being completely unable to realize that it was Polaris, and not Pancada, that beat Teddy Thunder.
- Magnificent Bastard: Polaris is a retired fighter and owner of the Bear Bar Box boxing club. Fed up with business doing poorly due to reigning champ Teddy Thunder always winning, and being unable to fight himself without losing his club, Polaris challenges Teddy while disguised, giving the crowd a good fight and beating him without anyone being the wiser. After he's mistaken for Pancada due to a laundry incident shrinking his black bodysuit, Polaris lets him in on his scheme to fight in secret; content with his employee taking the glory. When a guilty Pancada threatens to expose Polaris if he doesn't let him fight Teddy for real, he agrees to train him. After Pancada loses, Polaris reveals that he knew he'd wouldn't win and bet all of his money on Teddy, knowing that everyone else would bet on Pancada; only training and encouraging him to ensure he wouldn't chicken out. By the time he's found out, Polaris had already skipped town with all of his winnings to retire, giving Pancada the club for him to turn into a dance studio.
- Nightmare Fuel: Polaris's insane laughter is both this and a funny moment (in a very Narm-ish way).
- Padding:
- There is a shot of Pancada very slowly walking over to his boss' desk used twice.
- It takes over 20 seconds for Pancada to cross a small bridge.
- Special Effects Failure: Pretty much the whole thing. Special mention goes to the dancing scenes, which required fluid animation that this movie does not have.
- Uncanny Valley:
- The extras, announcer, and Satellite Love Interest have human figures with crude bear heads and no textures. They look pretty creepy.
- Polaris's abs are similarly unnerving.
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Ursinho da Pesada, known in English as The Little Panda Fighter, is a 2008 Brazilian Direct to Video film by Vídeo Brinquedo that is, to say the least, 'inspired' by Kung Fu Panda. A panda named Pancada works at a boxing club, but dreams of becoming a professional dancer. His boss, hoping to get back in the ring, fights a bear named Teddy Thunders, but due to an incident with the washing machine, everyone thinks he's Pancada. Now, Pancada is forced to fight in the ring for a battle that could determine the fate of the business.
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See also Chop Kick Panda, another Kung Fu Panda knockoff.
This film provides examples of:
- Batman Gambit: At the end of the movie, Polaris bets all of his money on Pancada losing to Teddy Thunders, and is able to hand the Bear Bar Box over to Pancada, who turns it into a dance club, while Polaris retires to the icy mountains.
- Clark Kenting: Taken Up to Eleven. Polaris the polar bear manages to hide his identity by putting on a leotard and a bandit mask while fighting the current boxing champion Teddy Thunders, and when his disguise shrinks instead of being exposed everyone thinks he's Pancada the panda, even though they look completely different.
- Covers Always Lie: The artwork on the cover looks much better than the film's actual animation. Plus, the scene showchased does not appear in the actual movie.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Pancada never had much of a chance against Teddy Thunders.
- Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Averted. There are no kung-fu-fights, but boxing. And Pancada isn't very good at boxing, because he wants to be a dancer. The cover lies, as mentioned above, to get the attention of Kung Fu Panda-fans.
- Karma Houdini: Polaris pretty much tricks everyone into giving him their money, and gets away with it.
- Limited Animation: In one scene, Beth says, the boxing club is sold out, but no customer can be seen.
- The Mockbuster: A pretty flagrant rip-off of Kung Fu Panda.
- Never Trust a Title: The titular panda is not 'little', as he is one of the largest characters in the movie. Plus, he only fights for thirty seconds at the end of the movie, and he gets his ass kicked.
- Non-Action Guy: Pancada would prefer to dance rather than fight.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: A bunch of people come up to Pancada and commend him on what they thought were his fighting skills and he thinks they're talking about his dancing audition, even though they were clearly not there watching. This is soon followed by another one between Pancada and Polaris, which is even more poorly constructed.
- Panda-ing to the Audience: Pancada is a panda.
- Satellite Love Interest: Beth serves no purpose in the story aside from being Pancada's Love Interest.
- Shout-Out: One of the opponents is clearly an evil version of Tender Heart.
Danny Gonzalez female bear
Danny remarks the absurdity of the female bear in Little Panda Fighter having a human-esque figure.
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Humanoid Female Animal