Finding One's Identity In Fung Fu Panda Three

In the spirit realm, Kai attacks Master Oogway and takes his chi. Kai plans to take the chi of every master. While in the mortal world Po, the Panda, is fulfilling his master duty by teaching his friends kung fu. Li, Po’s father, appears in Po’s village and leads him to their secret Panda home. In the Village, Po gets to form a relationship with his dad and reconnect with his fellow Pandas. Mean while, Kai destroys the Jade Palace and takes master Shifu chi. He also takes Po’s friend’s chi except Tigress, the tiger, who escapes to warn Po. Afterward, Po trains to defeat Kai. Even though the plot is a conventional animated coming of age story, Fung Fu Panda Three utilizes humor and the cultural theme of finding one’s identity to capture and keep the audience’s attention throughout the movie. The movie demonstrates humor through dialogues and characters response to serious situations. A humorous dialogue is the dialogue between Po and his father, Li, of when they first meet. Here is
The repetition of, “Who am I?” prevents the audience from losing interest in the movie. “Who am I?” is repeated four times in the film. The movie first introduces the concept of finding one’s identity between Po’s and masters Shifu’s conversation. Po completes his kung fu teaching class with a disaster. So he ends up outside the court of the Jade Palace and tells master Shifu that he will never teach kung fu again. After a while, master Shifu says to Po, “If you only do what you can do you will never be more than who you are.” Po responds, “I don’t want to be more. I like who I am.” Master Shifu replies to Po, “You don’t even know who you are.” In this conversation, an unexpected question is thrown at Po’s face, making him meditate on the answer. As a result, the audience is intrigue and wants to find out how Po will answer this important question. The audience finds out at the end of the film how Po answers the