Kung Fu Panda 2

2011, 90 minutes

Po and the Furious Five venture to China to battle a villain and uncover the secrets of Po's mysterious origins.

<!-- PER WP:FILMPLOT, PLOT SUMMARIES FOR FEATURE FILMS SHOULD BE BETWEEN 400 AND 700 WORDS. --> The narrator narrates that long ago in ancient China, the peacock clan that ruled Gongmen City brought happiness to the land with the creation of fireworks, until their son, Lord List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Shen|Shen (Gary Oldman) harnessed its destructive potential as a weapon with which to rule the entire country. When he learned from the court's goat List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Soothsayer|soothsayer (Michelle Yeoh) that "a warrior of black-and-white" would one day defeat him, Shen had an entire village of Giant Panda|pandas killed to avert the prophecy. Shen's parents were horrified at this atrocity and exiled Shen from Gongmen City, who swore revenge. 30 years later, List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Po|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 List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Furious Five|Furious Five, but is told by Master List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Shifu|Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) that he has yet to achieve inner peace, and complete a final Kung Fu technique. While fighting off a pack of Gray wolf|wolf Banditry|bandits who have been stealing refined metal for Lord Shen, Po is distracted by a symbol on the List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Wolf Boss|head wolf's (Danny McBride (actor)|Danny McBride) armor, which makes Po have a Flashback (psychology)|flashback of his mother and allows the wolves to escape. Po asks List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Mr. Ping|Mr. 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 Adoption|adopted him. Afterwards, Shifu receives word that Master List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Thundering Rhino|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. Po and the Furious Five go to stop him, reaching Gongmen City to find it under the control of Shen's forces. The heroes find two imprisoned council members, Masters List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Storming Ox|Storming Ox (Dennis Haysbert) and List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Croc|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 si. 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 List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Shen's Gorilla Army|Shen's gorilla army. Upon being brought before Shen in his tower, Po and the Five free themselves and destroy Shen's cannon. 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. After escaping, Master List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Tigress|Tigress (Angelina Jolie) confronts Po over his distraction. 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. Though empathetic, Tigress tells Po to stay behind for his own safety. Regardless, Po breaks into Shen's cannon factory to confront him, inadvertently foiling the Five's attempts to destroy the factory. Shen claims that Po's parents abandoned him and never loved him before he blasts Po out of the factory and captures the Five. Po is rescued by the Soothsayer, who has been exiled by Shen to the ruined village where Po was born. Guided by the Soothsayer to embrace his past, Po remembers that when he was young, his parents had sacrificed themselves to save him from Shen's forces as they killed every panda and burned down the village. While fighting back, List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Po's Father|Po's father ordered List of Kung Fu Panda characters#Po's Mother|Po's mother to run and escape with their baby. Po's mother ran into the snowy woods and hid him in a crate of radishes before being subdued. Po then lifts up a broken door from the ground and finds his childhood toy. However, realizing that despite this tragedy, he had lived a happy and fulfilling life, Po attains inner peace and decides to continue his journey to stop Shen. Po returns to Gongmen City to rescue the captive Five and prevent Shen's conquest of China. They then battle against Shen's wolves and gorillas (in which Ox and Croc participate, after being persuade by Shifu), managing to block the gates to Gongmen City to stop Shen from getting into the harbour. Shen, refusing to admit to defeat, uses his main cannon to clear the way, killing Boss Wolf and several of his pack in the process, and during the explosion, the kung fu warriors are flung into the ocean. Po climbs onto a rock and uses his inner peace to enable the Kung Fu technique that redirects Shen's cannon fires against his own armada and destroys it, much to the other kung fu warriors' surprise. He then urges the shocked Shen to let go of his own past and choose his own path, but Shen refuses (though he agrees to choose his own path, but decides to remain evil) and attacks Po with his knives until he accidentally slashes the ropes holding up his destroyed main cannon. Realizing this too late, Shen closes his eyes, making no move to evade the cannon, and it falls on Shen, killing him. Victorious, Po returns to the Valley of Peace and reunites with Mr. Ping, lovingly declaring himself to be Po's father. At the same time, Po's real father (Fred Tatasciore) is shown to be living in a far-off hidden village inhabited by other surviving pandas and is the village's leader, and senses that his son is alive. [<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda_2'>Plot summary provided by WikiPedia</a>]


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