While I didn't enjoy this movie as much as the first its still a good movie (especially as far as sequels are concerned).
The animation, like the first, is great eye-candy making it a joy to watch while the general plot, villain, and personal back story's are all well done.
Po's history is tied in well to the main plot and leads to some nice moments between Po and his noodle dad. Even one of the Furious Five shows some emotional vulnerability (setting up for the third movie of a planned six so I read). So this movie, like the first, delivers on the personal/emotional side pretty nicely.
As for the main villain this go-round (an albino peacock), while less physically imposing than his predecessor (Tai Lung), he uses his wits to present a unique set of challenges to our heroes which leads to another one of the franchises unorthodox final battle sequences which I enjoy. Some might be disappointed, but I found him to be very majestic and formidable in his own way so I thought he was a nice choice.
My only pet peeve is in the humor department as for me it lacked a feel of spontaneity and flow. Rarely did it catch me off guard like the first movie did so no LOL moments. Instead it was often predictable, over-the-top, out of place, or just flat out not funny. Sure there were some scenes like Po on the roof giving his speech (minus his bad overacting after the hat toss) etc that brought back memories of the first, but quite a few others had Po behaving so childishly or trying too hard to be funny that I began to find his antics a little annoying. Running around "yeah lets go woo yeah!" got old quick for me and a lot of his one liners felt like that person who you meet who isn't funny at all but for a need of attention continually tries to be anyways. Even one of the Furious Five looked tired of it as there is a scene where Po is talking about his two-step plan and Tigress has to reply with an agitated "Po!" as if to say "okay we get it, but its not funny...knock it off already!" I felt your pain Tigress.
Still an overall enjoyable movie. No reason to not watch it unless you absolutely hated the first.
The animation, like the first, is great eye-candy making it a joy to watch while the general plot, villain, and personal back story's are all well done.
Po's history is tied in well to the main plot and leads to some nice moments between Po and his noodle dad. Even one of the Furious Five shows some emotional vulnerability (setting up for the third movie of a planned six so I read). So this movie, like the first, delivers on the personal/emotional side pretty nicely.
As for the main villain this go-round (an albino peacock), while less physically imposing than his predecessor (Tai Lung), he uses his wits to present a unique set of challenges to our heroes which leads to another one of the franchises unorthodox final battle sequences which I enjoy. Some might be disappointed, but I found him to be very majestic and formidable in his own way so I thought he was a nice choice.
My only pet peeve is in the humor department as for me it lacked a feel of spontaneity and flow. Rarely did it catch me off guard like the first movie did so no LOL moments. Instead it was often predictable, over-the-top, out of place, or just flat out not funny. Sure there were some scenes like Po on the roof giving his speech (minus his bad overacting after the hat toss) etc that brought back memories of the first, but quite a few others had Po behaving so childishly or trying too hard to be funny that I began to find his antics a little annoying. Running around "yeah lets go woo yeah!" got old quick for me and a lot of his one liners felt like that person who you meet who isn't funny at all but for a need of attention continually tries to be anyways. Even one of the Furious Five looked tired of it as there is a scene where Po is talking about his two-step plan and Tigress has to reply with an agitated "Po!" as if to say "okay we get it, but its not funny...knock it off already!" I felt your pain Tigress.
Still an overall enjoyable movie. No reason to not watch it unless you absolutely hated the first.