Franchise · Tertiary · since 2008
Kung Fu Panda
A slapstick premise that turned out to have a real film underneath it. Four films, the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior, one villain each, and a tortoise with the best lines.
There is no secret ingredient.
The Dragon Scroll, opened at last
A slapstick premise that turned out to have a real film underneath it. The scroll everyone spends the entire first film fighting over is blank, a mirror, and the answer is that there was never anything in it. Oogway hid nothing, because there was nothing to hide.
That should be a cheat and it is not, because the film has already shown you the same idea in the noodle shop: Mr Ping’s secret ingredient soup has no secret ingredient either. It tells you the ending in act one and you still do not see it coming.
Oogway hid nothing in it. That is the answer, and the film earns it