So, on Wednesday last week I went with Ehmuhlee over to the local Strand theater to see Kung Fu Panda. I had heard from a fellow Deviantartist who’s artwork I really admire that it was very good, and she told me that it was fat positive. It seemed that the blogs on the fatosphere went either way. But I decided that I really wanted to see it, because Panda’s are cute, I love Chinese (and Japanese, but I have really taken a liking to Chinese) culture, and i thought the action sequences would be cool- since I love Avatar: The Last Airbender (*insert spazz* OMG NEW EPISODES NEXT WEEK!! AHH!!) and the martial arts in that. I went into the movie feeling mixed, but getting the feeling that I would like it. The fact that I was willing to see a computer animated movie featuring talking animals says enough in and of itself (I am so SICK of the animals that talk and teach a lesson about how much humans suck! UGH!) .

I have to say I was not disappointed. I don’t really like the fact that I went into the movie through “fat eyes”- I was looking to see how they handled teh fatz. The only negative I would point out, that other’s have pointed out before, if the whole eating business. The panda is fat, so there has to be something messed up about it’s eating habits, obviously. That was the only thing that bugged me. I know there are lots of people- fat and thin- that have emotional eating problems, but I just get sick of every fat person shown has to have one to be fat. They can’t just be fat (and I am not trying to dis anyone with emotional eating disorders). And the whole, fat = stupid, lazy, smelly, over-eater thing was kinda annoying. I did like his line at the end, “I’m THE big fat panda”, and the fact that he didn’t have some magic panda slim down at the end. 

I <3 that panda though- so cute. It was so sad to see his reactions after someone would say something negative about it. Had the “we’re people too” type effect. And I really like the way the scroll thing happened. Not to mention the animated was gorgeous- as were the fight scenes. And, seriously, the scenes were they showed the tigress and snow lepoard as little kitten type people- SO CUTE!!!<3333333

And yay for having two of the five being kickass chicks! My 10 year old brain was thinking “I want to be the Tigress!!”… Yeah, we were one of the few their above the 11 year old age lol.

So, I would definitely recommend it. (I havn’t scene Wall-E so I can’t really compare them for their presentations of fat people). It wasn’t perfect, but I doubt any movie ever will be. I am definitely going to be buying this on DVD so my inner 10 year old can rejoice and kick ass.