Kung Fu Panda

Who it's for

Po is chosen for a role everyone, including himself, thinks he doesn't deserve, which speaks directly to impostor feelings.

Feelings it meets

• Self-Worth
• Rejection
• Insecurity
• Perfectionism
• Resentment
• Adoption

What it is

Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 animated comedy directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne. Po, a clumsy panda who works in his goose father Mr. Ping's noodle restaurant and idolizes kung fu, is unexpectedly named the prophesied Dragon Warrior by the wise tortoise Oogway.

Where to find it

Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.

Before you start

Heads up: Martial-arts peril and weight jokes.

Age: PG

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, “Self-Reliance”