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Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is a Western animated film franchise about a Jack Black Panda who becomes the greatest Kung Fu warrior in all of China.
Notable for having a great first film, better second film…and then a sharp decline in quality after that.
Speculah & Analysis
Shen was Right
Not to kill the pandas, but with the whole cannon thing.
Think about it: the second film is partially about progress versus tradition. Po and Kung Fu represent tradition, while Shen and the cannon represent progress.
In the end, progress loses to tradition. But…
Well, China ended up losing because it was too insular, bureaucratic, arrogant and obsessed with maintaining the status quo…to the point they lost to Europeans, who developed canons and guns (despite the Chinese inventing gunpowder). Technically, Po is dooming China.