Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

All Critics (164) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (134) | Rotten (32) | DVD (5)

A solid slice of summer entertainment: forgettable, perhaps, but plenty of fun while it lasts.

June 8, 2011 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

Jack Black once again shows his excellence as a voice actor.

May 28, 2011 Full Review | Comments (9)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Hardly a scene goes by that isn't visually striking or kinetically thrilling, and all of it enhanced by 3-D.

May 27, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

Po and friends redeem themselves with a terrific third act, the animation (in three distinct styles) is superb and there's enough hiii-YA-ing to keep the kids yipping throughout.

May 27, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

The film's visuals are thrilling, beguiling, vivid: the greens of a glade or a terraced hillside; the molten reds of Shen's smelting works or yellow-orange arcs of fireworks.

May 26, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

No, we're not talking about Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter, although it does feel that way early on in the animated Kung Fu Panda 2.

May 26, 2011 Full Review | Comments (5)

Nancy Churnin

Dallas Morning News

Top Critic

Kung Fu Panda 2 benefits from an entertaining story, fantastic direction and amazing visuals. It's one of 2011's best animated films.

March 13, 2013 Full Review

Billy Tatum

We Got This Covered

["Kung Fu Panda 2" has] got everything you could want in a film made for kids including a good story, stunning animation, and a few laughs.

September 20, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

I guess my expectations may have been too high. I didn't want a silly KUNG FU PANDA 2, loaded with jokes. I was hoping it would be more like the first one.

May 12, 2012 Full Review

Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

The best animated film of the year, Kung Fu Panda 2 plays as a solid kids' film, a great kung fu actioner, and an emotionally centered drama.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Too bad it's so forgettable.

January 3, 2012 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

One can only wonder if cinematic animation might find a new path, one far removed from the sadly lucrative video-game market.

December 24, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

S. James Wegg

JWR

Cute, fun, not very original or engrossing for this adult but gorgeous to look at and listen to in high def. (Blu-ray edition)

December 8, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The characters do a lot of chasing around, running, punching, and kicking, making the movie more exhausting than exciting.

December 8, 2011 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

What could up have amounted to a highly moving work of art is constantly diminished by low-grade TV sitcom humor such as can be found on any series starring Kevin James or James Belushi.

November 27, 2011 Full Review

Brandon Judell

GreenCine

Stellar animation aside, themes such as adoption anxiety, genocide and WMD dominate the storyline-not the usual kiddie fare to be sure.

October 20, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Panda 2 packs more than enough personality and visual pizzazz to make up for its minor shortcomings.

September 9, 2011 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

a fun summer outing that will please its audience by delivering a familiar feel with just enough novelty to keep things fresh.

September 1, 2011 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

A visually engrossing, technical triumph, Kung Fu Panda 2 is worth seeing on the big screen for the sheer eye popping nature of its realisation. But dramatically, it's not packing a punch.

August 16, 2011 Full Review

Andrew Simpson

Fan The Fire

Just a good time at the movies, from the laughs to the action to the heartwarming message.

August 3, 2011 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Kung Fu Panda 2 isn't just a model sequel or family film: as an action movie, it's superior to most of what's out there.

July 23, 2011 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

If there is one pleasant surprise in the movie, it's Lord Shen.

July 18, 2011 Full Review

Kofi Outlaw

ScreenRant

Kung Fu Panda 2 is all just a bit too familiar, a bit too common, a bit too unimaginative. In the real world, recycling is a great and admirable thing. In cinema, it is a death knell.

July 6, 2011 Full Review | Comments (12)

Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

...there are crashing pagodas, hurtling cannonballs, wild chases, and of course, a lot of whiplash-inducing kung fu, effortlessly balancing elegance, ferocity, variety and comic timing like the genre's pros.

July 4, 2011 Full Review

Aaron Yap

Flicks.co.nz

• 1. Mr. Ping: I fed you, I gave you a bath, and I fed you some more!
  – Submitted by S.R. H (2 months ago)
• 1. Po: Ah, thanks for picking me up.
  2. Wolf Boss: No problem. [drops Po]
  3. Po: By the way, I threw up a little bit on the third floor. Do you have some type of 'evil janitor' to pick that up?
  – Submitted by YOU USED THE WRONG EMAIL ADDRESS S (6 months ago)
• 1. Lord Shen: The dead exist in the past. And I must tend to the future.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Lord Shen: China will be mine.
  – Submitted by Lisa H (12 months ago)
• 1. Wolf Boss: Chew on that tubby!
  – Submitted by Lisa H (12 months ago)
• 1. Mr. Ping: You're going to a strange danger, in a strange city, with strange noodles!
  – Submitted by Lisa H (12 months ago)

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