DreamWorks Animation denied any wrongdoing and after a two-week trial the jurors found in favor of DreamWorks. In 2009, it won the International Animated Film Society's Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, "in recognition of creative excellence in the art of animation.

Shifu then informs Po and the Five of Tai Lung's escape, and tells Po he is the only one who can stop him. the film enters instant classic status as some of the most gorgeous animation Hollywood has produced since the golden age of Disney. However, Tom Charity of CNN criticized the action for tending "to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos" and considered the character of Po too similar to others played by Black. With 7,486,642 DVD units sold in 2008, Kung Fu Panda was the fourth highest-selling film and the first highest-selling animated film of 2008, right before WALL-E, which sold 7,413,548 units.A third series, also set after Kung Fu Panda 3, titled Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, premiered on Netflix in July 2022, with Jack Black reprising his role as Po.

During this time, Po learns that Shifu's cold and distant behavior stems from his own shame over Tai Lung's betrayal, having raised him from infancy. The hand-drawn animation sequence at the beginning of the film was made to resemble Chinese shadow puppetry. Jack Black as Po, an energetic and accident-prone yet heroic giant panda and a die-hard kung-fu fan who eventually becomes The Dragon Warrior. Panicked, Shifu sends a goose named Zeng to increase the security at Chorh-Gom Prison in Mongolia, where Tai Lung is held. According to Black, he mostly worked "in isolation", although he and Dustin Hoffman did spend a day together, which Cobb said helped with the scene where their characters face off.One day, the wise tortoise Master Oogway predicts that Shifu's former snow leopard protégé, Tai Lung, will escape from prison and attack the valley to obtain the Dragon Scroll, a legendary artifact he had previously been denied. The first installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, it was directed by John Stevenson, in his feature directorial debut, co-directed by Mark Osborne and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, from a story by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. The soundtrack also includes a partially rewritten version of the classic song, " Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Cee-Lo Green and Jack Black for the end credits. Let's really make sure that our kung fu is as cool as any kung fu ever done so that we can take our place in that canon and make sure it's a beautiful movie because great martial arts movies are really beautiful-looking movies and then let's see if we can imbue it with real heart and emotion. The score for Kung Fu Panda was composed, like most DreamWorks Animation films, by Hans Zimmer, this time collaborating with John Powell: the former visited China to absorb the culture and used the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of the scoring process.

Ping reveals that his "secret ingredient soup" has no secret ingredient at all, explaining that things can become special with belief. Angelina Jolie as Master Tigress, a no-nonsense and tough-as-nails South China tigress and leader of the Furious Five. Kung Fu Panda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature [54] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The DVD double pack release of Kung Fu Panda also includes a short animated film Secrets of the Furious Five. I wasn't interested in making fun of them, because I really think martial arts movies can be great films, they can be as good as any genre movie when they're done properly .Shifu informs Oogway of the event, with the tortoise making Shifu promise to believe in Po as the Dragon Warrior, before passing away into the Spirit Realm in a stream of peach blossoms. Let's try to make it a real martial arts movie albeit one with a comic character and let's take our action seriously. Developer Mitch Watson has confirmed that Mick Wingert will reprise his role from Legends of Awesomeness as Po. Pandamonium Breaks Loose on Sunday, November 9th When the Year's Biggest Comedy Debuts on DVD and Blu-ray Along With DreamWorks Animation's World Premiere of Po's All-New Adventure" (Press release). It surpassed the box-office take of the first film, [85] and received a similarly positive critical and audience response.