

Po returns home where he meets a panda, Li Shan, whom they both realize is his long-lost biological father.

Po is demoralized because of his failure, but Shifu advises Po that instead of trying to be a teacher, he should try to be himself. An initially excited Po realizes that teaching kung fu is not as easy as he thought, and the Furious Five are injured as a result. Meanwhile, Master Shifu announces his retirement from teaching and passes the role of teacher to Po. Kai takes this as a challenge to steal the Dragon Warrior's chi and returns to the mortal realm. Oogway too is ensnared and has his chi stolen, but warns Kai that the Dragon Warrior, Po, will stop him. In the spirit realm, Oogway fights against a bull adversary named Kai, who has defeated all the other kung fu masters in the realm and taken their chi. Like its predecessors, the film received generally positive reviews while grossing $521 million worldwide against its $145 million budget. It received a limited release in China on January 23 for a special three-hour sneak preview and was released in the United States on January 29 in 3D. Kung Fu Panda 3 premiered on January 16, 2016, in Los Angeles. Simmons and Kate Hudson in the roles of Li Shan, Kai, and Mei Mei, respectively. Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan and James Hong reprise their roles from the previous films with Randall Duk Kim reprising his role of Oogway from the first film. The film was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. To prevent Kai from taking chi from all kung fu masters and pandas, Po forms the army of pandas to battle Kai's jade minions and Po must become a master of chi to defeat him and save his friends. In the film, Po enters the panda village and re-unites with his birth father and other pandas, but problems arise when a villainous spirit warrior, named Kai, returns to the mortal realm and steals chi from the kung fu masters. It is the third installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and the sequel to 2011's Kung Fu Panda 2. Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 2016 3D computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
