. but not the sense of nuttiness that made the TV cartoon so delightful.'. Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011) Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos (2012). Kung Fu Panda 2 is the 2011. The DVD release came with a short titled Secrets of the Masters detailing. Shen professed his hatred of kung fu and desire. Kung Fu Panda 2 (Western Animation)Kung Fu Panda 2 is the 2. Sequel to Dream. Works Animation's Kung Fu Panda. Long ago, a peacock named Lord Shen sought to harness the power of fireworks for a more practical use in weaponry, a cannon. His worried parents, the rulers of Gongmen City, consulted a soothsayer, who foretold that Shen would be defeated by "a warrior of black and white". To prevent this, Shen destroyed an entire nearby panda village, and returned home expecting appreciation, but his parents were struck with horror and exiled him. Shen, however, swore revenge and vowed to return to the city to complete his invention and see that the prophecy would not be fulfilled. In the present day, Po, now a highly skilled Dragon Warrior and the sixth member of the Furious Five, is trying to learn "inner peace" from Master Shifu. Pacific Data Images (PDI) was an American computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in 2000. (8 bits for red.
They're interrupted when a gang of wolves attack a village in search of metal to help in making Lord Shen's cannon, which, if successful, will make kung fu obsolete. Po and the Furious Five set out for Gongmen City to stop the wicked peacock. Along the way, Po learns about how he was adopted, and why. Considered one of Dream. Works finest films, Kung Fu Panda 2 became the highest grossing film of all time to be directed solely by a woman. The DVD release came with a short titled Secrets of the Masters detailing the backstories of Masters Ox, Croc, and Rhino. In 2. 01. 5, another prequel short titled Secrets of the Scroll was released, telling the story of how the Furios Five met each other. A sequel titled Kung Fu Panda 3 was released on January 2. For character tropes, see the Character Page. Kung Fu Panda 2 Provides Examples Of: open/close all folders Tropes A to C Acoustic License: An aversion played for laughs. After Lord Shen has shot Po with a cannon, he sails his ships to open sea in order to conquer all of China. Then he sees Po atop a roof far away. Po stands heroically and then starts giving an inspiring speech.. After a few confused "What?"'s, Shen gives up trying to understand Po and just orders his troops to fire. Acrofatic: Po exemplifies this trope. Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Two major examples: the nighttime boat scene that shows how close as friends Po and Tigress have become, and Po and the Soothsayer in Po's home village where he remembers his horrific past and comes to terms with it. Action Girl: Tigress and Viper. Actionized Sequel: While the original is an action movie, there is a LOT more here thanks to Po getting out of training. Adult Fear: Po's fear that his real parents abandoned and replaced him, as anyone who's adopted could attest to. Ping's fear that Po rediscovering his real parentage will make him not view him as his father anymore, as anyone who's adopted children will attest to. Advertised Extra: Master Thundering Rhino is shown in the website and press release. In the actual movie, he barely gets two minutes of screentimebefore Shen kills him. Masters Storming Ox and Croc have somewhat larger roles, but not by much. The members of the Furious Five (save Tigress, and perhaps Mantis) still barely get any lines, as in the previous movie. Alas, Poor Villain: Lord Shen. After a very miserable and empty life, he finally faces the warrior destined to defeat him whose entire species he tried to destroy.. He cannot grasp how that is, how he could be free of all that pain, and tries one last time to kill him.. But he accepts it gracefully, because death is the only peace he could find. All There in the Manual: The movie's official website offers far more detailed information about all the new characters, especially Lord Shen. Lord Shen's motivations are much simpler in the movie proper, and his obsession with weapons stems from a standard villainous unquenchable lust for power that forced his parents to exile him for the atrocities he committed. This leaves out the fact that his parents were ashamed of his albinism and poor health, and abandoned him to the care of his soothsayer nanny. The context puts a very different spin on some of the exchanges between Shen and Po: the movie only shows Shen's parents looking understandably horrified at the destruction of the Panda village, and Shen only references being wronged by the exile. You can see traces of this whenever the soothsayer gives Shen a hard time and he only responds with angry words; when Po unintentionally insults her, Shen loses his temper; and Shen simply sets the soothsayer free before starting his campaign. All There In The Stinger: Throughout the film, Po has to deal with the knowledge that he is The Last of His Kind, as a genocidal warlord murdered the rest of his species. The Stinger reveals that there are still other pandas out there, living in a hidden village, setting up the plot for Kung Fu Panda 3. Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Ping when he packs Po a backpack with embarrassing old paintings and Po's action figures of his teammates.. Analogy Backfire: Played with. When Po claims that "scars heal", Shen attempts to call him on this. Po's response, "Oh yeah what do scars do? They fade I guess." is, if anything, more accurate to the situation. Animate Inanimate Object: The radish that Po's parents replaced him with in his dream sequence. It can do kung fu, too. Arc Symbol: The red- eye- with- rays symbol for Po, and the Yin- Yang symbol for Shen. Po grows, and the eye symbol stops holding any fear for him. Shen doesn't, and Po eventually takes on the yin- yang symbol as he wipes out Shen's gunships with their own cannonballs. Arc Words: Arrow Catch: Tigress dodges a bunch of arrows and catches the last one an inch from her cheek. Bonus points for the arrows being on fire. More bonus points for the fact that she wasn't even looking at it and didn't seem all that concerned by it, as she does it completely offhandedly. Artistic License Biology: Both of Shen's parents are referenced as peacocks. Peacocks are called peacocks because they are male. A female peafowl would be a peahen. Unless..) Lord Shen uses his tail to help him glide a long distance. Peacocks can't do that. Art Shift: The movie is primarily filmed in CG, but the opening prologue was shot in a style resembling metal shadow puppets, and Po's dreams and memories are animated traditionally (though the memories become 3. D CGI once Po fully recalls them). Ascended Fanboy: Even though Po is now The Dragon Warrior, he still treasures his Furious Five action figures, and still gushes like a kid about everything related to kung fu, even while being captured. Po: No way! Eight- point acupressure cuffs? Just like the ones that held Tai Lung! The more you move, the tighter they get.. YAAH! (gets yanked to the ground) These are the best cuffs! Ash Face: Happens to Mantis when he tests a small amount of gunpowder. Attack! Attack! Attack!: Shen decides to blast everything in his path. Ironically, that's how he meets his defeat. Attack! Attack.. Retreat! Retreat!: When the Furious Five attempt to bring down Shen's cannon factory. Monkey: (after dropping a dozen barrels of lit explosives) Here's your New Year's gift! Mantis: Hope you like it, 'cuz you can't return it! Tigress: (hears Po scream and sees him fighting Shen inside) Po!? What's he doing here? Monkey: Return it! Return it! (starts snuffing out the burning barrels)Audible Sharpness: All of Shen's blade weapons. Awesome, but Impractical: Turns out Shen's cannons can be a pain to aim at moving targets. Awful Truth: Subverted in that Po is determined to find out what happened to his biological parents, and only Big Bad Lord Shen knows (besides the Soothsayer). As such, Po screws up a chance for the Five to destroy the cannon foundry to face the peacock, only to have him claim his parents abandoned him because they didn't love him. Of course, that's a blatant lie. Badass Boast: "I am Po. And I'm gonna need a hat." It Makes Sense in Context. Hilariously parodied later on when Po makes his epic return and attempts this trope towards Shen. Problem is, he's standing too far away for Shen to hear him. Po: Shen! A panda stands between you, and your- (Cuts to Shen's POV who only hear indistinct shouting.)Shen.. WHAAAT? Po: Prepare yourself, for a- (Another cut to Shen who exchange confused looks with the Wolf Boss as they still can't hear him.)Shen: .. Badass Crew: With Po as the new addition to the team, the Furious Five are, if possible, even more badass than in the first film with all the crazy combo moves they show off in this film. Badass in Distress: The Furious Five near the end of the movie. While Po is presumed dead, they all end up as Shen's prisoners. Bag of Spilling: Averted. Po still has the kung- fu abilities he learned in the previous movie and is able to fight alongside the Furious Five. Bait and Switch: When Shen sees his father's throne again after years of exile, he reminisces about how his father let him play beside it and how he'd be told that one day the throne would be his. Cue the throne being thrown out of the window and replaced by Shen's cannon. Bait- and- Switch Comment: After finding baby Po abandoned in a (now empty) box of radishes, Mr Ping makes a monumental decision.. And raise Po as his son. Bamboo Technology: Literally! Shen's cannon foundry features, among other things, a bamboo Conveyor Belt- O- Doom. Battle Discretion Shot: Po and the Five, hidden in a huge dragon costume, pull several wolf Mooks inside and rough them up before kicking them out the back, turning a string of rapid beatdowns into Toilet Humor. BFG: Lord Shen's big freakin' cannons. Which shoot exploding cannonballs. Big Bad: Lord Shen. Big Damn Heroes: Po, near the end of the film, coming to rescue the Five and stop Shen. Master Shifu and Masters Croc and Ox, shortly afterward, coming to help Po and the Five. Po's father in Po's flashback when two wolves were about to attack baby Po. Big Eater: Baby! Po, which Mr. Ping points out repeatedly as he fed the cub multiple times in a single day. Then there was the time he ate all the bamboo furniture.. Subverted by Present!
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