Secrets of the Furious Five

Secrets of the Furious Five
Original poster
Directed by	Raman Hui
Written by	Paul McEvoy Todd Berger
Produced by	Karen Foster
Starring	Jack Black Dustin Hoffman David Cross Randall Duk Kim Jessica DiCicco Max Koch Tara Strong Jaycee Chan
Edited by	John Venzon
Music by	Henry Jackman Hans Zimmer John Powell
Production companies	DreamWorks Animation Reel FX Film Roman
Distributed by	Paramount Home Entertainment
Release dates	November 11, 2008 (2008-11-11) (companion DVD release) February 26, 2009 (2009-02-26) (NBC broadcast) March 24, 2009 (2009-03-24) (separate DVD release)
Running time	24 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million

Secrets of the Furious Five (also known as Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five) is a 2008 American animated short film produced by DreamWorks Animation that serves as a spin-off to the animated feature film, Kung Fu Panda (2008), and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release. It was broadcast on NBC February 26, 2009, and became available as a separate DVD.

The film has a framing story of Po the Dragon Warrior (in computer animation) telling the stories of his comrades in arms, the Furious Five, who are depicted in 2D cel animation, similar to the opening and end credits of the original film.

The only actors from the film to reprise their roles in this short were Jack Black as Po, Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, David Cross as Crane, and Randall Duk Kim as Master Oogway. Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan and Seth Rogen do not reprise their roles, mainly because their related characters are depicted as their younger selves.

In this short, Monkey is voiced by Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie Chan. Jaycee Chan also voiced Crane in the Cantonese version of the original film. Production of the film was outsourced to Reel FX Creative Studios, which worked on CG animation, and to Film Roman, which worked on traditionally animated sequences.^[1]