A fitting follow-up to the first Kung Fu Panda movie 3 years ago.

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2012)

It is hard to believe that it has been 3 years since I saw the first one, "Kung Fu Panda." I just reviewed my comments from that earlier movie and see that it was not explained how a Panda came to have a goose as a father. This movie covers that quite nicely, as it fits into the story. Plus, it ends with Po's biological Panda dad realizing that his son lives, and I imagine that will set up part of the story in "Kung Fu Panda 3." That remains to be seen.
Also as I commented 3 years earlier, the animation is just eye-popping, the detail and the movement of both characters and their layers of costumes.
Jack Black of course is back voicing Po, and a new menace has arisen to threaten the very existence of ancient China. That menace is aptly voiced by Gary Oldman as the peacock Shen. Angelina Jolie again is the voice of Tigress, and Dustin Hoffman is the voice of the old master, Shifu.
The story isn't easy to explain so I will not try. However it involves Shen getting lots of metals to make very destructive canons, and Po, Tigress, and the others thwarting their plans.
And we do find out, as a baby Panda Po had to be abandoned for his own survival and Mr Goose found him and raised him, an adopted son.