Shen claims that Po's parents abandoned him and never loved him before he blasts Po out of the factory and captures the Five. Regardless, Po breaks into Shen's cannon factory to confront him, inadvertently interrupting the Five's attempts to destroy the factory itself. Though empathetic, Tigress tells Po to stay behind for his own safety. Po explains that he remembers Shen's presence on the night he was separated from his parents, and wants to question Shen about his past. After escaping, Tigress ( Angelina Jolie) confronts Po over his distraction. However, Po is again distracted by a flashback, upon seeing the same symbol as before on Shen's plumage, allowing Shen to escape and destroy the tower with an arsenal of cannons.
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Upon being brought before Shen in his tower, Po and the Five free themselves and destroy Shen's cannon. Po and the Five are then discovered by the Wolf Boss, whom they chase to prevent him from alerting Shen, only to be captured by Shen's gorilla army. The heroes find two imprisoned council members, Masters Storming Ox ( Dennis Haysbert) and Croc ( Jean-Claude Van Damme), and ask their help to liberate the city, but both masters cite their helplessness against Shen's weapon and refuse to help, stating that Shen will turn his weapons against the city if they do so. Po and the Furious Five go to stop him, reaching Gongmen City to find it under the control of Shen's forces. Ping ( James Hong) where he came from, but all Ping can tell him is that he found Po as an infant in a radish crate and adopted him.Īfterwards, Shifu receives word that Master Thundering Rhino ( Victor Garber), leader of the Kung Fu Council protecting Gongmen City, has been killed by Shen with his newly developed weapon, a cannon, with which he intends to destroy Kung Fu tradition and conquer China. While fighting off a pack of wolf bandits who have been stealing refined metal for Lord Shen, Po is distracted by a symbol on the Wolf Boss's ( Danny McBride) armor, which makes Po have a flashback of his mother and allows the wolves to escape. Twenty years later, Po ( Jack Black) is living his dream as the Dragon Warrior and a Kung Fu master, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow Kung Fu masters the Furious Five, but is told by Master Shifu ( Dustin Hoffman) that he has yet to achieve inner peace, and complete a final Kung Fu technique.
Shen's parents were horrified at this atrocity and exiled Shen from Gongmen City, who swore revenge. When he learned from the court's goat Soothsayer ( Michelle Yeoh) that "a warrior of black-and-white" would one day stop him from going down this dark path, Shen had an entire village of pandas killed to avert it. The narrator narrates (in puppet-style animation) that long ago in ancient China, the Peacock clan that ruled Gongman City brought happiness to the land with the creation of fireworks, until their son, Lord Shen ( Gary Oldman) harnessed its destructive potential as a weapon with which to rule the entire country.
Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 4.5 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards.In addition, the film was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards.Ī sequel, titled Kung Fu Panda 3, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, was released on January 29, 2016. It was also a commercial success surpassing the original film and, as the original film, was the highest-grossing animated feature film of the year. Kung Fu Panda 2 generally received positive reviews, with critics praising its animation, voice acting, action scenes, and character development. The film was released on May 26, 2011, in Real D 3D and Digital 3D. The cast of the original film reprised their roles while the new villain, Lord Shen is voiced by Gary Oldman. In the film, Po and his friends battle a would-be conqueror Lord Shen with his powerful new weapon, with the giant panda discovering a distant link to his past in the process. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda and the second instalment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. Kung Fu Panda 2 (also known as Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom) is a 2011 3D American computer-animated comedy-drama martial arts film, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.