Making Of has posted a six-minute behind-the-scenes glimpse into Kung Fu Panda 2. The video includes talking heads with key art staff, including director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, plus glimpses of new villain Lord Shen.
And if that hasn’t sated your thirst for endangered wildlife with martial arts skills, It’s Art has a separate 10-minute making-of feature, which you can view here.
The movie opened in the States at the weekend to good reviews.
View the official Kung Fu Panda 2 trailer
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Tom said:
As usual I liked the movie for its art and animation and production, but I wasn’t surprised by the villain and therefore disappointed — just another single bad guy with a chip on his shoulder. It was kind of nice that him and Po both had a parental thing going on (which is ironic in a kid’s movie) but this villain is not so different to a zillion others in movies. He acts evil, has a massive gang that is ultimately useless, and whimpers out at the end. He’s not a guy you’d really expect to win, really care about whether he lives or dies, and Po is just a little impervious to the villain’s threat – which is probably what annoyed me most watching this one. In the first movie you wince when he takes a fall, in this one, he’s got too big a hero shield. Although it’s a comedy, the hero’s victory should still be hard won, or at least suspenseful. Po just bumbles from A to B and then goes home. My take would have been for the wolves to depose the peacock and the pack leader become a kind of double up villain much harder to get rid of and more of a challenge to Po. The sequence chasing the head wolf through the town is great, and the earlier first wolf fight with the guitar bunny is great too.
8:53 pm on Tuesday, May 31, 2011