Kung
Fu Panda 2
90 min - Animation|Action|Adventure - 26 May 2011
(USA)
Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Produced by Melissa Cobb
Guillermo Del Toro
(Executive)
Written by Jonathan Aibel
Glenn Berger
Starring Jack Black
Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 3D 2011 computer-animated action-comedy film and the sequel to the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda. The cast of the original film reprised their voice roles. The film was released on May 26, 2011 in Real D 3D and Digital 3D.
Plot
Long ago, Lord Shen, the son of the ruling Peacock Emperors of China, sought to harness the power of gunpowder as a weapon to fuel his aggressive ambitions. When he learned from the court soothsayer that a black and white warrior would one day defeat him, Shen assumed she was referring to the Giant Pandas and had them exterminated to avert that prophecy. Horrified at this atrocity, Shen's parents exiled him and Shen, feeling abandoned and betrayed, vowed he would return one day to rule supreme.
Years later, Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five. However, Master Shifu's lessons to further Po's training to help him pursue inner peace are interrupted by a raid by Wolves seeking all the refined metal they can steal from a village of musicians. Po and the Five arrive to stop them, but the wolves get away when Po is paralysed at the sight of a symbol on the lead wolf that brings flashes of traumatic memories of his mother from his subconscious. Po asks his father where he came from, but all the goose can tell him is that he found Po as an infant in a vegetable crate behind his restaurant and adopted him.
Afterward, Master Shifu receives word from Gongmen City, under the stewardship of the Kung Fu Council, that Lord Shen has attacked with a powerful new weapon that threatens to destroy the martial arts tradition. Po and the Furious Five are sent to stop him, but the journey is complicated by Po's troubling nightmares that he feels he cannot share completely with anyone, even with Tigress, whom he is growing increasingly close to. When they reach the city, Po and the Five find it under the control of Shen's forces and try to stealthily reach Masters Storming Ox and Croc in the prison in order to get their help to liberate the city. Unfortunately, both masters inexplicably refuse to leave their cell, citing their helplessness against Lord Shen's weapon, forcing Po and the Five to make the attempt alone. Unfortunately, the Wolves, including the same leader Po encountered in the village, discover them and they chase him throughout the city until they are captured.

Unfortunately, Po decides to break into the cannon foundry to question Shen himself about his memories and fouls up the Five's attempt to destroy it. In the ensuing battle, Po faces Shen who acknowledges that he was in Po's parent's village and sadistically claims that Po's parents abandoned him before blasting the panda out of the foundry with a giant cannon into the river to his apparent death. However, Po is alive, wounded and unconsciously floating down the river, where he is rescued by the Soothsayer. When he regains consciousness, the Soothsayer tells him that he is in the remains of the village where he was born and Po's unconsciously repressed memories fight to come to the surface. Guided by the Soothsayer to let them rise as he tries to attain inner peace, those memories come back as he witnesses the destruction of his village, his Mother's flight from Shen's forces until she was forced to abandon him in the produce box to lure them away, presumably to her death. However, Po's memories move to his adoption by the loving Mr. Ping and how he conquered his deep insecurities to achieve his most cherished dreams with help of his new friends, the Masters. At that, Po comes to realize that his past does not define him as much as his present choices, allowing him to attain a measure of peace even while he prepares to return to Gongmen City to confront the murdering peacock.

Back in the Valley of Peace, Po reunites with Mr. Ping and lovingly proclaims him to be his father. However, at that very moment in a distant hidden area that contains a whole village of Giant Pandas, Po's biological father suddenly senses that his son is alive.
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