Kung Fu Panda 2

The Movie Diorama

6/10

Kung Fu Panda 2 excitedly kicks, punches and belly flops its way through overused visual humour. “Everybody was kung fu fighting!” much more so in this sequel when compared to its predecessor. The Furious Five were slapping Shen’s army of diabolical wolves left, right and centre. Master Shifu prodding his stick conveniently during the climactic battle. And a plethora of other anthropomorphic beast...

CinemaSerf

7/10

After his surprising success as the "Dragon Warrior", the cheery "Po" is hoping to take it easy. History, though, has no intention of letting him sit on his laurels as it emerges that the slighted peacock villain "Shen" has designs on taking over the globe. We learn from a brief retrospective a bit about the cause of his bitterness and it seems that he and "Po" have an overlapping provenance that ...

daniel_carr

8/10

It's not often the second movie is as good as the first movie and this was awesome! The story was good, the movie was funny and they added what I felt was missing from the first movie the back story to Po and his father (a Panda and a goose). Although the villian story seemed a bit familiar it was different enough not to feel too much of a copy of the first film, so well done guys.