MovieChat Forums > Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) Discussion > Good film but lacked a big fight scene.

Good film but lacked a big fight scene.

posted 13 years ago by scabab
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I didnt like this as much as the first one. I was kinda let down by the fights in the movie, none of them were as intense nor as entertaining as the ones in the first movie.The Tai Lung breakout scene, the fight with the Furious 5 on the bridge and the fight with Po were better than any scenes in the second film. KFP2 didnt have that so much, its still kind of a martial arts film and you always look forward to the big fight at the end but Shen was beaten rather easily infact.I get that Tai Lungs power came from his martial arts whereas Shens power came from his army and technology but a common rule is that the villain in the next film is more powerful than the last and Shen would have been wasted by Tai Lung in seconds.Still i enjoyed the movie alot.

[–] john-117-of-mars 13 years ago

It would be cool to see Tai Lung and Shen face off.

Yeah, the first movie defnitely had better fights between the main characters, which the second one lacks aside from that really short fight when Shen returns.

But the second movie more than makes up for it with the tower escape scene, the warehouse, and the finale stopping shen's boats.. which actually takes up almost the entire second half of the movie.

[–] drakesc78 13 years ago

while I agree with you that the movie could've used a few more action scenes and the finale was a bit weak, if you remember correctly one of the main plots was the defense of Kung Fu as a whole. Po was to defeat Shen using his skill as a Kung Fu master and newly developing skills with the discovery of inner peace. Shen wanted nothing more than to show that technology was more powerful than Kung Fu and attempting to defeat the greatest Kung Fu masters in China at the time was his way of doing this.

Po's developing mastery of inner peace to defeat shens technology/weapons was his way of proving Kung Fu was the more powerful weapon. Shen's own admission that he was no match for the masters at the beginning of the movie was a bit of forshadowing of this. He knew he alone could not defeat Po and the furious Five with only Kung Fu, so he had to come up with something that could simply destroy them.

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 11 years ago

I felt the ending worked for this movie because it wasn't Kung Fu vs Kung Fu it was Kung Fu and ancient ways vs Technology and destruction. Plus I think it would be pretty impressive to be able to reflect cannon balls back at an attacking army.

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