![]() Po starts to wonder though, when he has flashbacks of the moment when his mother left him in a radish basket, the horror rendered in a chaotic tilts and shadows, and then, most emphatically, in a poignant point of view shot: the baby panda’s paws are outstretched toward her tearful face as he whimpers. You also know, if you’ve seen the first film, that Po has never before given much thought to his background, assuming that his dad, the big-hearted goose Mr. ![]() And so, though neither Po nor Shen knows it, their life paths are intertwined. ![]() Instead, Po’s parents were trying to save their adorable bundle of fur and fat, as Shen was, for his part, trying to kill off all pandas, because the goat had prophesied that such a bear would eventually defeat Shen. It turns out that he too was long ago abandoned by his parents - though not because he was a child who deserved to be rejected, like the Lord Voldemort-ish Shen. In fact, Shen’s grim story has a parallel, that of Po (Jack Black), the roly-poly kung fu champion. That’s not to say that this film is all dark, at least thematically. The narrator (a soothsaying goat voiced by Michelle Yeoh) reveals Shen’s plan for vengeance: he means to convert fireworks - a technology intended to “bring color and brightness” - into a weapon that will instead “bring darkness.”Īlas, you may think as you sit in a theater wearing 3D glasses, the seer might as well be describing this technology too, as movies once colorful and bright are now delivered into darkness. ![]() This backstory for Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) appears in animation that resembles paper puppets, at once delicate, traditional, and colorful. “Long ago,” Kung Fu Panda 2 begins, a young peacock found himself rejected by his royal parents. ![]()
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