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"KUNG FU PANDA 2" (2011) (voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie) (PG) QUICK TAKE: Animated Action: Po and the Furious Five return to do battle with an evil peacock obsessed with becoming the ruler of China. PLOT: Following the events of the first film, Po (voice of JACK BLACK) has become firmly entrenched as the fabled Dragon Warrior, fighting enemy threats alongside his former idols, the Furious Five: Tigress (voice of ANGELINA JOLIE), Mantis (voice of SETH ROGEN), Crane (voice of DAVID CROSS), Viper (voice of LUCY LIU), and Monkey (voice of JACKIE CHAN). Po, though, learns that he still needs the tutelage of Kung Fu Master Shifu (voice of DUSTIN HOFFMAN) in finding his "inner peace." Po's inner turmoil is ratcheted up when his father, Mr. Ping (JAMES HONG), tells him he is adopted and that the identity of his real parents is a mystery. Po starts to have brief flashbacks and even nightmares of his real mother and father under attack by some unseen force. Meanwhile, a great evil arises in China in the form of the power-hungry peacock Lord Shen (voice of GARY OLDMAN), who has ignored the warnings and advice of the Soothsayer (voice of MICHELLE YEOH) and imprisoned kung fu Masters Ox and Croc (voices of DENNIS HAYSBERT and JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, respectively). Shen's family cast him out years earlier for seeking to transform their beloved Chinese fireworks into explosive weapons so that he could rule the entire land unchallenged. As Po and the Furious Five rush to fight Shen and his forces, it soon becomes clear that Po and Shen's paths have crossed before and the conqueror holds the key to the panda warrior finding out who he really is. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Yes, absolutely. The first one was a major hit with children and families, and the on-air promotions are inescapable. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG For sequences of martial arts action and mild violence. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: JACK BLACK voices the titular character, a panda bear who has discovered his destiny as a great kung-fu warrior. He uses violence when he, his friends, or the population in his charge are threatened, which is often. He is frequently hungry and sometimes behaves in a gluttonous manner, especially when food is nearby. He learns that he is adopted early in the film and begins to have a crisis of identity. Repressed memories resurface that threaten his goal of finding the "inner peace" that all true kung-fu masters have. ANGELINA JOLIE voices a female tiger who is also highly adept at kung fu and fights alongside Po. She is a rigid, no-nonsense character who rarely shows any emotion other than aggression. But she cares for and sympathizes with Po as she herself was an orphan and abandoned by her family (we learned that in the first film). JACKIE CHAN, SETH ROGEN, LUCY LIU, and DAVID CROSS voice the other members of the "Furious Five," a group of kung-fu fighters who belong to different species (a monkey, a mantis, a viper, and a crane, respectively) and have different fighting styles. Like Po and Tigress, they also frequently use violence to solve problems. DUSTIN HOFFMAN voices their all-wise master who sends Po and the Furious Five on their missions and participates in the climactic battle royale. GARY OLDMAN voices the film's villain, an evil peacock who was cast out of his family home years earlier when he tried to build an all-powerful weapon that would make his kind the rulers of all the land. He still thirsts for conquest, ordering his forces to attack villages throughout China to obtain more metal to help in the building of his weapons. DENNIS HAYSBERT, JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME and VICTOR GARBER voice Kung Fu Masters Ox, Croc, and Rhino who Lord Shen has to defeat to gain control of China. He imprisons Ox and Croc and murders (off-screen) Thundering Rhino. MICHELLE YEOH voices a soothsaying goat who tries to warn Shen to change his destiny or face defeat at the hands of a panda warrior. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this animated action film that has been rated PG. There is no profanity, but a few colorful phrases and insults are uttered. Violence consists of various animated animals fighting kung-fu-style for much of the movie, often defying conventional gravity while executing complex combinations of punches, kicks, chops, slaps, and smacks. Many of the characters are threatened with weapons such as spears and arrows, while one character is killed off-screen by a cannon-like weapon. None of this has bloody results, but there are numerous scenes and moments of potential peril throughout that will likely be unsettling and/or suspenseful for younger viewers including a sequence in which the main character appears to have been killed but survives. A climactic battle involves large sailing ships equipped with cannons that cause great destruction when fired. Bad attitudes are present throughout, as is potentially imitative behavior and various thematic elements. The main character learns that he is adopted and begins to have repressed memories resurface of his biological parents being killed (although we find out very late in the film that at least one of them survived). These memories and feelings of abandonment manifest themselves in at least one fairly intense nightmare in which the lead character imagines his parents still alive and having moved on without him. There is no drinking or smoking in the film. If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, all sorts of camera movement occurs throughout the film as characters fall quite frequently from high places and survive. The film is also being shown in 3-D in select theaters, and there are numerous jump-out effects. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE The Soothsayer tends to Po's injuries with acupuncture and having him drink a medicinal tea. BLOOD/GROSS STUFF Po shoves 38 dumplings in his mouth. When he goes for a total of 40, Crane pats him on the back and Po spits all of them out directly at the camera. Po tells the Furious Five to save the spit-out dumplings so he can eat them later. A wolf hits a distracted Po hard across the face with a hammer and we see spit fly out of Po's mouth in slo-motion. Po reaches the top of Shen's castle after walking up numerous flights of steps (the last several flights he was carried by one of Shen's gorilla minions). Once at the top, he confesses to having vomited on the third floor and that Shen needs to send a janitor to clean it up. Shen's main wolf henchman goes through the movie with one eye swollen shut. Some kids may be put off by the Soothsayer performing needled acupuncture on a wounded Po. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE When a soothsayer predicts that he will one day be defeated by a panda, Lord Shen orders her forces to attack a panda village and kill all the bears. In need of more metal to make his weapons, Shen orders a musicians' village raided for pots, pans, instruments, and other metallic objects. When Shifu tells Po that even the greatest of kung-fu masters have had to either endure pain and suffering or meditated for 50 or more years to attain true inner peace, he asks if there is any way he can do it quicker and easier. Shifu tells Po that the worst day of his life was when he found out that Po was the fabled Dragon Warrior and that he would have to train him. After a wolf hits Po hard across the face and sends him to the ground, the wolf taunts him by yelling, "Chew on that, Tubby!" Tigress tells Po that she punched iron-wood trees for 20 years to make her hands impervious to pain. He asks if there is a quicker way. Shen calls the Soothsayer an "old goat" on at least two occasions. Shen slams a wolf guard to the ground after he has brought him bad news. Shen uses one of his feather-blade weapons to destroy the Soothsayer's prognostication bowl after she tells him that his destiny is still to be defeated by a panda warrior. Shen vows to kill Po just as he has killed many other pandas. One of Shen's wolf henchmen threatens a vendor in the street to either cool his rice or he'll cook her. She explains that she has had problems properly cooking her food ever since Shen's forces stole all of her metal pots and pans, but the wolf doesn't care. Masters Ox and Croc refuse to help Po and the Furious Five destroy Shen's weapon and free the city, fearing the weapon is too powerful and submitting to dictatorial rule is safer for the population. A wolf throws various critters, including a basket of baby bunnies, at Po as they engage in a rickshaw chase through the streets of a crowded city. One of Shen's gorilla warriors puts his hand on the Soothsayer's shoulder for moral support, but the Soothsayer slaps it away. Shen tells the Soothsayer that his parents hated him. But she tells him that they really loved him deeply and that sending him away broke their hearts and they died sad. Shen refuses to believe her and holds on to his anger. Shen lies to Po, telling him that his parents never loved him and consciously abandoned him. Shen orders his gunner to open fire on Po and the Furious Five even though many of their own troops would be killed or hurt, too. The gunner refuses, Shen beats him off the weapon, and fires anyway. Po offers a defeated Shen to let go of his hate and resentment and begin to heal. But Shen refuses and resumes their fight. FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gross Stuff" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material. An early sequence shows scary-looking wolves who are hard at work inside Shen's hellish weapons factory. Some snarl into the camera. Shen's wolf bandits attack a defenseless musicians' village and steal their metals. The masses run from the marauders, and one small rabbit musician gets caught in a pot until the Furious Five and Po come to the rescue. Multiple wolves jab jagged swords into a large dragon costume in an attempt to kill Po and the Furious Five, who have been using the costume as a disguise to get through the city. But the costume is already empty and the heroes have moved on. At the end of the rickshaw chase, Po and the Furious 5 are surrounded by dozens of wolves armed with spears and bows and arrows that are trained in a threatening manner on the six surrendering heroes. Shen points a cannon at Po and the Furious Five and orders his wolves to shoot. Mantis manages to blow the fuse out, though, and free the warriors. Shen orders his forces to fire multiple flaming arrows and flaming cannonballs at the castle where Po and the Furious Five are holed up. As the building catches fire and starts to crumble, the six heroes climb to the tower's top and ride the structure down as it falls, jumping off and atop another rooftop before it completes its downward spiral. Po hangs over a vat of molten metal. Shen fires a cannon shot at Po at point-blank range that sends him through a factory window and many miles out into the Chinese countryside. Po has an extended flashback to being a baby when his panda village came under attack by Shen and his wolf soldiers. Po's dad offered himself as a shield and fought off several wolves with a large hammer-like weapon, hitting them baseball-bat style. Po then recalls his mom scooping him up as a baby and running to a nearby river, evading several wolves in the process. After casting him down the river, she returned to the shore waving her hands at the attacking wolves to distract them away from Baby Po. The last memory Po has is her being chased out of view by multiple wolves and Shen himself. Shen orders the destruction of a bridge in which multiple animal families have gathered to watch his armada sail down the main canal of their city. The ship fires on the bridge as everyone scurries to safety. Multiple cannons take aim at Po, who is standing on a distant rooftop. Po jumps down from roof to roof as the cannons track his every move. Po makes a last stand while balancing on some debris in the city's harbor. Multiple cannons take aim and fire at him. But he is able to use his martial-arts skills and newfound inner peace to dodge some of the cannonballs and catch others and fling them back at the ships. GUNS/WEAPONS Spears/Axes/Hammers/Bows and arrows/Swords/Cannons/Explosives/Steal Feather Blades: Carried and/or used to threaten or attempt to harm others. See "Violence" for details. Wolf bandits attack a village with spears, axes, hammers, and bows and arrows. Shen attacks Masters Ox, Croc, and Thundering Rhino with metal feathers plucked from his body that he uses as throwing and potential stabbing weapons. Shen uses one of his feather-blade weapons to destroy the Soothsayer's prognostication bowl after she tells him that his destiny is still to be defeated by a panda warrior. Shen fights with these weapons at several other points throughout the film. Shen's wolf bandits and gorilla soldiers are armed in every scene they appear either with spears, swords, axes, hammers, or bows and arrows. Multiple wolves jab jagged swords into a large dragon costume in an attempt to kill Po and the Furious Five, who have been using the costume as a disguise to get through the city. Shen sails a great fleet through the canal of his city, each ship fitted with one of his cannons. Shifu uses his cane as a weapon to make short work of several attackers. Shen fire his ship's cannon at Po and the Furious Five even though many of his own troops are in the way. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "Chew on that, Tubby!" "You idiot!" "I will take them down!" "You shall see, old goat," "Either you cook my rice, or I'll cook you!" "Taste the defeat!" "I find your stupidity mildly annoying," "It's just a stupid nightmare," "Stop being a wimp!" "Your magic panda is a fool," "Move you dogs! Faster!" "How many times do I have to kill the same stinking panda?!" and "Ska-doosh!" Younger and more impressionable viewers may be compelled to imitate some of the fighting moves and sounds seen and heard throughout the film. A bunny and a pig are shown outside the Furious Five's headquarters fighting with Po and Tigress action figures. Po shoves 38 dumplings in his mouth on a dare. When he goes for a total of 40, Crane pats him on the back and Po spits all of them out directly at the camera. Po tells the Furious Five to save the spit-out dumplings so he can eat them later. While being given a bath, a baby Po eats a bubble and winces at the taste. Po's dad, Mr. Ping, says Po once ate bamboo furniture as a child. Po repeatedly punches a ship's mast out of frustration. Tigress notes that Po once ate a pot of raw rice then drank down boiling water in an attempt to cook the rice in his belly. Po fakes like he is asleep as the Soothsayer tends to his injuries. Po stands on a rooftop issuing a challenge to Shen and his forces below. JUMP SCENES Po spits out 40 dumplings right into camera -- an effect greatly magnified in 3-D. An attack on a musicians' village begins with multiple spears falling from the sky and directly into camera - another effect greatly enhanced by 3-D. Multiple fight scenes throughout the film have brief moments in them where a fist or a foot seemingly comes off the screen in 3-D as the battles rage. Master Shen orders his forces to fire their cannon at Master Thundering Rhino. The shot comes out of the barrel and right into the camera - yet another effect enhanced by 3-D. Po falls down a snowy mountain and barrels head-first right into the camera. Shen orders his forces to fire flaming arrows at his castle where Po and the Furious Five are holed up. The first barrage of arrows land directly into the camera - a 3-D effect that definitely causes a jump reaction in the audience. Shen fires his ship's cannon at another ship in which Po and the Furious Five are fighting multiple bad guys, causing an enormous explosion that blows most of the characters out into the city's harbor. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) A heavy amount of tense music occurs throughout the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) None. PROFANITY None. SEX/NUDITY None. SMOKING None. TENSE FAMILY SCENES During an opening battle with wolves, Po sees a strange insignia on one of the wolves that immediately summons a vision of when he was a baby and his mother was leaning over him during an attack on their village. Po tells his father that he knows he isn't his real dad, and the two question each other over why they never brought up the subject of Po's adoption before. Po has a nightmare that his biological mother and father have moved on without him, having replaced him with a radish that has better kung-fu skills. Mr. Ping says a tearful goodbye to Po not knowing if he will see him again. Mantis tells Po and the other members of the Furious Five that his mom ate his dad's head when he was born, hence the reason he has never had "daddy issues." When Po pins Shen, he looks at his feathers and has a flashback to when his biological mother and father and fellow villagers were attacked. He realizes that Shen was there and possibly orchestrated the attack. He demands to know what happened, but Shen escapes. Shen tells the Soothsayer that his parents hated him. But she tells him that they really loved him deeply and that sending him away broke their hearts and they died sad. Shen refuses to believe her and holds on to his anger. Shen lies to Po, telling him that his parents never loved him and consciously abandoned him. The Soothsayer gets Po to clear his mind so that he can clearly remember what happened the night he lost his biological parents. He remembers being a baby when his panda village came under attack by Shen and his wolf soldiers. Po's dad offered himself as a shield and fought off several wolves with a large hammer-like weapon. Po remembers his father yelling to his mother to run for safety. He then recalls that his mom scooped him up as a baby and ran to a nearby river, evading several wolves in the process. She then put him in a box of vegetables and cast him down the river before returning to the shore waving her hands at the wolves to distract them away from Baby Po. The last memory he has is her being chased out of view by multiple wolves and Shen himself. Shen orders the destruction of a bridge in which multiple animal families have gathered to watch his armada sail down the main canal of their city. The ship fires on the bridge as everyone scurries to safety. Late in the film, customers ask Po's adoptive father if he will ever return from battle and from finding the truth out about his lineage, and Mr. Ping begins to cry and tells them he doesn't know. But then Po appears and they embrace. SPOILER ALERT: The final scene of the film reveals Po's biological father to still be alive and learning that his son has also survived. We look out over a valley of other panda characters, and it's unclear if Po's biological mother is among them. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Adoption. Abandoning or disowning one's child and the emotional ramifications for that person as he/she goes through life. Kung fu and the martial arts -- how they can be used for more than just fighting. Chinese history. The art of meditation. Finding inner peace. VIOLENCE Po and the Furious Five rush to fight off hordes of wolf bandits who are attacking a defenseless musicians' village. Po and the Five work together to execute various fight moves in which they team up usually in combinations of two to punch and kick the various wolves. The battle is intense and very quickly edited, so the dizzying array of exchanged punches and kicks are never lingered on for more than a second. The wolves do fight back by attacking with spears, axes, hammers, and bows and arrows. Po and the Five evade all of the weapons. At one point, Tigress picks Po up and swings him around in a circle knocking several bandits off their feet. Po is also thrown into the air and executes a move he calls "Feet of Fury" in which he kicks multiple wolves in succession. With the battle won, Po confidently stands his ground as one straggler wolf charges him with a hammer. When he spots a strange insignia on the wolf, Po has a brief flash of a repressed childhood memory. The wolf uses the distraction to clobber Po with the hammer sending him into Tigress and several villagers. The wolf escapes. Master Ox and Master Croc playfully spar as Master Thundering Rhino watches. In an instant, Shen knocks out several guards to gain entrance to his family home. Shen roughs up Masters Croc and Ox with a series of kung-fu moves. But he is quickly bested by Master Thundering Rhino. When Thundering Rhino tells him he can't beat his kung fu, Shen agrees but tells him he has something that can. His forces enter, take the wraps off a large cannon, and that fires directly into the camera. A scene later, Shifu announces to Po and the Furious Five that Lord Shen has a new weapon that has killed Master Thundering Rhino. Po repeatedly punches a ship's mast out of frustration. In a nightmare sequence, a radish comes to life and beats Po up using a series of lightning-fast kung-fu moves. Po and Tigress spar on the deck of a boat, with Po repeatedly punching her hand (at her request). Shen slams a wolf guard to the ground who has brought him bad news. Shen uses one of his feather-blade weapons to destroy the Soothsayer's prognostication bowl after she tells him that his destiny is still to be defeated by a panda warrior. Shen kicks one of his gorilla troops in the face. Po head-butts a wolf, knocking him out. Po and the Furious Five don a large dragon costume - the kind worn by multiple people and seen in Chinese New Year parades - to get around the city. Eventually, though, they are found out by Shen's wolf troops. What follows is a clever action sequence in which Po, who is operating the costume's head, essentially gobbles up each attacking wolf. We then hear the sounds of the Furious Five beating that wolf up as he passes through the torso costume, and the unconscious wolf is then basically "pooped" out the costume's back end. We get a long overhead tracking shot of Po and the Five defeating multiple wolves this way as they scurry through the city's tight alleys and byways. Multiple wolves jab jagged swords into the large dragon costume in an attempt to kill Po and the Furious Five, who have been using the costume as a disguise to get through the city. But the costume is already empty and the heroes have moved on. Looking to break Masters Ox and Croc out of jail, Mantis quickly knocks out two wolves standing guard outside the prison. Inside, Tigress leads the Furious Five in knocking out several interior guards with a series of kung-fu fight moves. Po finishes off the last guard who comes up behind him by punching him in the face without even turning to look at him. Tigress then kicks in the door to Masters Croc and Ox's jail cell. Po and Master Ox engage in a playful fight that involves a swinging jail cell door. Po wants the imprisoned Ox and Croc to help him and the Furious Five destroy Shen's ultimate weapon and free the city. Ox refuses, and the two spend a couple of minutes knocking each other through the door, which swings fast on its hinges often knocking one character out of the cell and the other back into the cell. Po and a wolf henchman engages in an intense rickshaw chase through crowded city streets and onto the tall rooftops of buildings. The wolf tries to get Po to crash by throwing various random critters, including a basket of cute baby bunnies, at him as they speed along. Po either avoids or saves all obstacles thrown his way. Eventually, he catches up and the two do battle on a single rickshaw that careens out of control through the city. As Po manhandles the wolf, he is able to lift him in the air so that the wolf's head hits multiple hanging signs as the rickshaw's momentum continues unabated. The wolf then gets the upper hand and forces Po's head to hit multiple signs. The rickshaw then careens down a long set of stone steps. As the cart hits each step, the momentum of the wolf's head causes it to repeatedly slam into Po's outstretched fist. The rickshaw then hits a bump sending both characters into the air. They fly a great distance and they eventually land hard in front of Shen's palace with Po slamming down hard atop the wolf. Suddenly surrounded by dozens of Shen's minions, Po is punched in the stomach by the wolf he had been chasing. Once Mantis frees him, Po quickly bests Shen in a fight and pins him to the ground. But he releases him when he has a flashback. Shen orders his forces to fire multiple flaming arrows and flaming cannonballs at the castle where Po and the Furious Five are holed up. As the building catches fire and starts to crumble, the six heroes climb to the tower's top and ride the structure down as it falls, jumping off and atop another rooftop before it completes its downward spiral. The whole time flaming arrows whiz by just missing them. Tigress and Po briefly fight at the jail where Masters Ox and Croc are. One of Shen's gorilla warriors puts his hand on the Soothsayer's shoulder for moral support, but the Soothsayer slaps it away. Po knocks out two of Shen's guards behind a stack of boxes. We only hear his punches and kicks. We don't see the violence. Shen and Po begin fighting high above the floor of Shen's weapons factory. The Furious Five bust into Shen's weapons factory with lit explosives and plan to run out before the place blows up, knocking out a few guards in the process with kung-fu moves. But then they spot Po fighting Shen and feverishly blow out each of the lit fuses. Tigress does most of the fighting as Shen bests Po in their fight, and the panda hangs over a vat of molten metal. Amid their fight, Shen flings his steel feather blade weapons at Po who deflects them. Po uses a fork-like instrument to pin Shen against a covered wall. Shen frees himself and reveals that it's not a wall, but another cannon which he then fires at Po. At the last possible instant, Po uses his metal hat to partially block the flaming cannonball. But the force of the blast sends him through a factory window and several miles out into the Chinese countryside where he soft-lands in a river. Nevertheless, Shen and the Furious Five -- who are soon surrounded and captured by Shen's overwhelming forces -- believe Po to be dead. Po has an extended flashback to being a baby when his panda village came under attack by Shen and his wolf soldiers. Po's dad offered himself as a shield and fought off several wolves with a large hammer-like weapon, hitting them baseball-bat style. Po then recalls his mom scooping him up as a baby and running to a nearby river, evading several wolves in the process. After casting him down the river, she returned to the shore waving her hands at the attacking wolves to distract them away from Baby Po. The last memory Po has is her being chased out of view by multiple wolves and Shen himself. Mantis tells Tigress and the other Furious Five he always thought he would die by meeting a nice girl who would eat his head. Shen orders the destruction of a bridge in which multiple animal families have gathered to watch his armada sail down the main canal of their city. The ship fires on the bridge as everyone scurries to safety. A climactic battle royale begins with Po jumping down onto Shen's ship, punching and kicking multiple wolves and gorillas and freeing a tied-up Furious Five. The six warriors are then joined by Masters Ox, Croc, and Shifu who execute multiple combinations of kung-fu fighting moves as they fight multiple bad guys on each of Shen's sailing ships. Shifu uses his cane as a weapon to make short work of several attackers. Shen orders his gunner to open fire on Po and the Furious Five even though many of their own troops would be killed or hurt, too. The gunner refuses, Shen beats him off the weapon by flinging one of his feather weapons at him, and then fires anyway. The result is a massive explosion that covers that part of the city in a thick cloud of smoke. When it clears, we see most of the familiar characters floating in the city harbor atop debris. All are clearly still moving and alive. Po makes a last stand while balancing on some debris in the city's harbor. Multiple cannons take aim and fire at him. But he is able to use his martial-arts skills and newfound inner peace to dodge some of the cannonballs and catch others and fling them back at the ships. The returned shots destroy the various ships of Shen's fleet as the various wolf and gorilla crew members jump into the water to avoid getting blown up. SPOILER ALERT: His fleet destroyed, Shen fights Po, feverishly wielding his metal feather blades and a spear. Po blocks each of Shen's lunges. In his frenzy, Shen inadvertently loosens his ship's destroyed cannon, which falls and crushes him (non-graphic...Shen looks up at the large cannon falling towards him overhead and the scene cuts to the cannon smashing down and Po's reaction). Reviewed May 21, 2011 / Posted May 26, 2011