She tells him the truth about the panda genocide, and encourages him to embrace his past. Shen lies and says Po's parents hated him, and shoots him.īadly wounded but alive, Po floats downriver and is rescued by the soothsayer. However, Po follows and confronts Shen, inadvertently spoiling the plan and allowing the Five to be captured. The Five leave Po behind at Gongmen Jail and proceed to Shen's cannon factory with the intent to blow it up. Tigress sympathizes, but still refuses to allow Po to come with them for fear his lack of focus will get him killed. The soothsayer tries to stop him, but Shen banishes her.Īfter their narrow escape, Tigress confronts Po, and Po reveals he has remembered Shen was there the day he was abandoned. Master Mantis, who was not captured per the plan, frees the others they destroy one of the cannons, but Po sees the same familiar symbol on Shen's plumage, which distracts him long enough for Shen to escape and destroy Gongmen Palace with his cannonade. Po and the Five deliberately surrender to Shen, who is amused by Po's naivete and prepares to kill them all without ever letting Po know he had reason for revenge.
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Upon arrival, they free Masters Ox and Croc, but the duo believes Kung Fu died with Master Rhino, and will not help.
Shen and his wolves have also captured Masters Ox and Croc, taking over Gongmen City, though Shen's goat soothsayer still warns him of his probable defeat.ĭuring the voyage to Gongmen, Master Tigress notices Po is distraught, and Po admits to her Mr. Po and the Five are dispatched across the sea to Gongmen City next, after learning Shen has made cannons and used one to kill Master Thundering Rhino, who had been left as regent of the city. When no one came forward to claim the cub, Ping adopted Po as his son. Ping for answers, and the goose reveals that he found Po, as an infant, in a shipment of radishes outside his restaurant. When the Wolf Boss raids the Musicians' Village, Po and the Five intercept him however, a symbol on his armor gives Po a flashback of his mother. Meanwhile, Po is enjoying his new role as a Kung Fu Master alongside the Furious Five, though Master Shifu warns him he has not yet achieved inner peace. Some decades later, Shen and his wolf army start to raid villages for scrap metal. Horrified by the genocide, Shen's parents banish him. Overhearing a prophecy that a "warrior of black and white" will defeat him if he continues, Shen destroys the local giant panda population. The peacock rulers of Gongmen City invent fireworks, but their son, Lord Shen, puts the gunpowder to evil use.
The sequel, Kung Fu Panda 3, was released in January 2016.
Nelson became the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since Marjane Satrapi for Persepolis (2007). it is also the sixth highest grossing film of 2011, The film was the highest-grossing animated feature film of the year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards, losing to Rango. It grossed $665 million worldwide against its $150 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film directed by a female director until Frozen (2013), as well as the highest-grossing film solely directed by a female director until Wonder Woman (2017). The film was released in theaters on in 2D, RealD 3D, and Digital 3D, and received very positive reviews from critics. In the film, Po and his allies (Tigress, Monkey, Viper, Crane, Mantis) travel to Gongmen City to stop a villainous peacock from conquering China, while also rediscovering Po's forgotten past. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (in her feature directorial debut), the film stars Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong, and Jackie Chan reprising their character roles from the first film, with Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Danny McBride, Dennis Haysbert, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Victor Garber voicing new characters. It is the sequel to Kung Fu Panda (2008) and the second installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.