After surprising everyone with the outstanding How To Train Your Dragon a while back, Dreamworks Animation seem to have settled back into a comfortably average groove once again with Megamind and now Kung Fu Panda 2. Ok, that's a bit cruel...Panda 2 is definitely better than average with a beautiful visual look that riffs off traditional Chinese art, massive CG landscapes, epic action sequences,intricately choreographed fight sequences and, most surprisingly, some powerful and affecting character moments as hero Panda Po comes to terms with his tragic past.
But, as with most Dreamworks cartoons, its story is a little too predictable to truly engage, too much time is spent arsing around with fart jokes and slapstick and you're always distracted by the starry voice cast rather than sucked into the plot.
That said, it must be mentioned that Gary Oldman's villain steals the show, once again proving that we're very luck to have the actor back on our screens hamming it up once more.
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