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.
See also Chop Kick Panda, another Kung Fu Panda knockoff.
This film provides examples of:
- Alliterative Name:
- The Big Bar Box.
- Teddy Thunders.
- All for Nothing: Pancada trains hard to prepare for his match against Freak Teddy, actually fighting for real this time after everyone believes confuses Polaris for Pancada when Freak Teddy is defeated by the former. Despite his training and confidence, Pancada embarrassingly loses the fight against Teddy pretty hard.
- Anywhere but Their Lips: When everyone thinks Pancada defeated Freak Teddy, Honey kisses Pancada the following day down the eyeball.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Teddy Thunders wins against Pancada in the climatic fight, reigniting his place as the champion of the Bear Bar Box. Meanwhile, despite his arrogance throughout the whole movie, Polaris gets away with his treachery in the ending, betting on Pancada losing against Teddy and earning him a retirement and vacation at the icy mountains.
- 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.
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise: When Polaris' leotard and mask shrink in the wash on a night when Pancada happens to not be working (since he was attending a dance audition), the audience mistakenly believes he is Pancada.
- Con Man: Polaris gets away with secretly betting on Pancada and becoming wealthy at the end of the film.
- 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. While he does do some considerably effective, albeit comical, hits against Teddy, Pancada is for most of the battle badly beaten up.
- Dream Sequence: A brief one in the beginning with Pancada imagining himself as a dancer while working on mopping the floor.
- 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.
- Fighting Panda: Averted as well for the same reason above. Pandaca is a boxer who would rather be a dancer, and the movie pretty much has nothing to do with kung-fu.
- Karma Houdini: Polaris pretty much tricks everyone into giving him their money, and gets away with it.
- Laughing Mad: After seeing how Pancada doesn't understand the misunderstanding going on and thinks everyone has been congratulating him for his dance audition, Polaris laughs for nearly twenty whole seconds.
- Limited Animation: In one scene, Beth says that the boxing club is sold out, but no customer can be seen.
- Mistaken for Badass: The plot revolves around everyone thinking Pancada defeated Freak Teddy in a match, and everyone constantly congratulates him for his supposed feat. In reality, it was Polaris who fought Teddy in a disguise that made him look like a panda, hence everyone's confusion.
- 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.
- Overly Long Gag: Polaris laughs at Pancada for his misunderstanding for nearly twenty whole seconds.
- Satellite Love Interest: Honey 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.
- One of the posters in Polaris' office is seemingly styled as a parody of the Rocky poster, except with Polaris instead of the titular character.
- Stock Footage: A small shot of Master Xin turning music on is used twice throughout the movie.
- Surprisingly Happy Ending: Finally fighting for real, Pancada embarrassingly loses the climatic match against Freak Teddy. However the next day, it turns out that Polaris bet that Pancada would lose, turning him wealthy and earning him a retirement and vacation. Though Polaris gets away with his treachery in the end, on a plus side for the protagonist, Pancada now has the Bear Bar Box's property to himself, deciding to turn it into a dance club to his liking, finally fulfilling his dream of being a dancer.
- Training Montage: Pancada has one in preparation for the climatic fight against Freak Teddy. It lasts well nearly three minutes.
