Kung Fu Panda/Trivia


 * Doing It for The Art: The first reaction of the producers at hearing from the animators that they didn't know how to do the rope bridge fight was encouragement; that meant that nobody had done it before and from that challenge, one of animation's wildest action sequences was created.
 * Hey Its That Voice: In the holiday special, Kenneth is Wo Hop.
 * Aside from the main cast, Wayne Knight (Newman, Seinfeld) is the voice of the main gang boss in Po's dream.
 * Also, James Hong (maybe better known as Lo Pan or The emperor's counsel, Chi-Fu) is the voice of Mr. Ping.
 * He was also Dan Fogler's mentor in Balls of Fury. Fogler voices the duck who delivers the message to double the secuirty surrounding Tai Lung.
 * He also played a lot of bit parts in Hawaii Five-O.
 * Michael Clarke Duncan as Captain Vachir.
 * Jackie Chan as Master Monkey.
 * Angelina Jolie is Tigress, Lucy Liu is Viper, Seth Rogen is Mantis, David Cross is Crane, and Dustin Hoffman is Master Shifu.
 * The Keymaker is Master Oogway.
 * The Japanese dubbed version, interestingly, has a lots of voice actors from many anime series and videogames that deals with fighting:
 * Master Monkey is Koji Kabuto and Lei Wulong
 * Master Mantis is Yoroi and Shin in the "Legend of Kenshiro" movie
 * Master Crane is Sorata Arisugawa in the TV series and Kaname Ougi
 * Master Oogway is Dr. Hell
 * Captain Vachir was Heihachi Mishima
 * Zeng is Eikichi Onizuka
 * Master Tigress is voiced in Japanese by Yoshino Kimura, who maybe many Western viewers can recognize her as the Japanese married woman from the movie Blindness
 * And The Narrator in the Japanese trailers is the grand-daddy of all fighting anime characters: Kenshiro himself!
 * Kung Fu Panda 2 brings us:
 * Lord Shen or Commissioner Jim Gordon? Perhaps Batman isn't the only one with a secret identity.
 * He's also Sirius Black, which makes the line about unintentionally hilarious.
 * Master Croc is that Belgian beefcake we all know and love, Jean-Claude van Damme.
 * Master Thundering Rhino is Sinestro.
 * Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness:
 * Wallace Shawn as Taotie.
 * Hoss Delgado voices Hundun.
 * Oh my god is that Victoria Chase as Fenghuang.
 * Malcolm Mc Dowell as Shirong, Shifu's father.
 * In the French Dub of Kung Fu Panda 2, the Wolf Boss sounds pretty badass. Maybe because he is Garrus Vakarian ?
 * While Lord Shen is... Niles ?! And it works perfectly!