
When no one came forward to claim the cub, Ping adopted Po as his son. Ping, and the goose reveals that baby Po arrived in a shipment of radishes outside his restaurant. When the Wolf Boss raids the Musicians' Village, Po and the Five intercept him however, he manages to escape with the metal when Po is distracted by a symbol on his armor, causing Po to have 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 true inner peace and tries to train him accordingly. In the present, Lord Shen and his wolf army start to raid villages for scrap metal. Thirty years prior to the events of the first film, the peacock rulers of Gongmen City are forced to exile their only son Lord Shen, after he kills all pandas in the area to avert a prophecy of a panda being his doom.


Nelson became the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since Marjane Satrapi for Persepolis (2007).Ī sequel titled Kung Fu Panda 3 was released in 2016. 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 the well as the highest-grossing film solely directed by a female director until Wonder Woman (2017). Like its predecessor, Kung Fu Panda 2 received positive reviews, with critics praising its animation, voice acting, action sequences, musical score, and character development. The film was released in theaters on in 2D, RealD 3D, and Digital 3D. Compared to its predecessor, Kung Fu Panda 2 employs a much darker tone paired with a far more threatening antagonist in the form of Lord Shen, and tackles more difficult and complex themes, such as adoption. Meanwhile, Po discovers a terrifying secret about his past, and discovers that Shen may have something to do with it. In the film, Po and the Furious Five battle an evil white peacock ruler named Lord Shen who has a powerful weapon that he plans to use to conquer China. It became the first major British animated film to be solely directed by a female director and the first major British animated film. The film was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (in her feature directorial debut). The sequel to Kung Fu Panda (2008), it is the second installment in the Kung Fu Panda film series. Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 2011 British computer-animated wuxia comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
