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. Using food as positive reinforcement, Shifu successfully trains Po to incorporate these feats into an effective kung fu style.Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Shifu, however, discovers that Po is capable of impressive physical feats when motivated by food. Still unable to grasp the basics of kung fu, Po despairingly admits that he has no chance of defeating Tai Lung.
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Shifu learns of Tai Lung's escape from Zeng and informs Oogway, who extracts a promise from Shifu to believe in Po and then ascends to the sky in a cloud of peach blossoms. Meanwhile, Tai Lung escapes from prison as foreseen by Oogway, picking his locks with one of Zeng's feathers. After receiving encouragement from Oogway, Po endures his grueling training and slowly begins to befriend the Five with his tenacity, culinary skill, and good humor. The Furious Five similarly mock and disdain of Po as an upstart with no skill in kung fu. Unwilling to accept that Oogway's decision was intentional, Shifu tries to get rid of Po by ridiculing him into quitting kung fu training coupled with a torturous training regime. To the audience's surprise, Po's confusion, and the Furious Five's dismay, Oogway proclaims Po as the Dragon Warrior. Desperate to see the Dragon Warrior chosen, Po straps himself to a set of fireworks, rockets into the sky, and crashes into the middle of the arena and opens his eyes to see Oogway pointing his finger at him. Forced to take a cumbersome noodle cart to the tournament, Po arrives as the arena doors close and is unable to enter. He then holds a kung fu tournament for the Furious Five so that Oogway may identify the Dragon Warrior, the one kung fu master worthy of receiving the Dragon Scroll and capable of defeating Tai Lung.
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Shifu is alarmed and sends his messenger, the goose Zeng, to prevent Tai Lung's escape. Grand Master Oogway, an old tortoise and Shifu's mentor, has a vision that Shifu's adoptive son and former student, the evil snow leopard Tai Lung, will escape from prison and return to the Valley of Peace to take revenge for being denied the Dragon Scroll, which is said to hold the secret to limitless power. Ping in his noodle restaurant, Po is unable to pursue his dream of becoming a kung fu master himself. As he helps his goose adoptive father Mr.
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Po, a giant panda, is a kung fu fanatic who idolizes the Furious Five Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane a quintet of kung fu students trained by the red panda Master Shifu ("shifu" being itself Mandarin for "master"). Episode Description: The story is set in the Valley of Peace, a fictional land in ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.