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Movies that feel likeKung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Po is finally living the dream as the Dragon Warrior—until a shadow from his past comes roaring back. When the ruthless peacock Lord Shen unleashes a devastating new weapon used to wipe out kung fu masters across the land, Po and the Furious Five race across China to put an end to his plans. But if Po is to have any hope of stopping him, he must first confront the truth of his origins—and find inner peace before his past tears him apart.

If you loved Kung Fu Panda 2, the closest films we have are Fearless (2006), Robots (2005) and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). All three share Kung Fu Panda 2's warm and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Castle (1997).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelsonwarmwittyplayfulkinetichopeful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Kung Fu Panda (2008) · Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) · Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)

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Fearless
2006 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 73%★ 7.5drama · action

Hard-won martial-arts mastery driven by hope for something bigger

The difference: A grounded historical drama, no animated comedy or fantasy villain

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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Robots
2005 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 64%★ 6.4animation · comedy · family

An earnest dreamer standing up to a villain threatening everything good

The difference: A steampunk robot-world satire, no martial-arts stakes at all

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009 · dir. Christopher Miller
🍅 85%★ 6.9animation · comedy · family

An earnest inventor's mess threatening to overwhelm an entire town

The difference: A food-weather disaster comedy, no kung fu or villain backstory

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

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The Castle
1997 · dir. Rob Sitch
🍅 87%★ 7.6drama · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Kung Fu Panda 2

The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.

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The Lego Batman Movie
2017 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 89%★ 7.3animation · action · comedyMax

A reluctant hero learning to open up while saving the day anyway

The difference: A Gotham superhero spoof, not a kung-fu prophecy adventure

A cooler-than-ever Batman must face the usual villains as the Joker plots a takeover of Gotham City. But when Bruce Wayne accidentally adopts a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick, he’s forced to give up his lone-vigilante ways and learn to work with others.

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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 72%★ 6.7comedyParamount+

Comedy built on hope, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Kung Fu Panda 2 does

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

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The Pacifier
2005 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 21%★ 5.6comedy · family · actionDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mission

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%★ 7.5action · comedy

Fast, funny martial-arts choreography carrying real heart underneath

The difference: A live-action period brawler, no animated villain or PTSD backstory

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 56%★ 6.3fantasy · adventure · familyDisney+

One thread runs through both: hope

The difference: Trades the wit of Kung Fu Panda 2 for an angle of its own

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.

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Iron Mask
2019 · dir. Oleg Stepchenko
🍅 21%★ 4.8action · adventure · familyRent or buy

Warm and kinetic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Kung Fu Panda 2 does

Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.

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Despicable Me 3
2017 · dir. Kyle Balda
🍅 58%★ 6.3action · animation · comedyNetflix

A sequel raising the stakes with a flashier, more theatrical villain

The difference: A twin-brother heist caper, no martial-arts training or destiny

Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.

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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019 · dir. Mike Mitchell
🍅 84%★ 6.5action · adventure · animationRent or buy

A hopeful sequel raising the threat while keeping its sense of fun

The difference: A brick-built space-invasion sequel, not a martial-arts origin story

It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

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