The sequel to the animated hit from a few years back was recently released, I went on saturday to watch it.
My expectations weren't really that high, the first one was ok but I prefer Disney to dreamworks. However, this didn't alter my judgement of the movie.
I found the film to be reasonably good, It wasn't as good as the first but I'm sure by now you know my feelings that sequels 99% of the time are not as good as the original.
In places I got bored, the story was pretty predictable but to be fair that is an unfair outlook to have over a kid's film. I wasn't blown away at all. My brother, who I was with, aged 6 enjoyed it but like me was bored at times.
That was only a minority of the film though, the rest of it was full of humour and action like it should have been.
The storyline was complicated for young kids to understand, and seeming the younger generation is their audience I think it was a bad card to put on the table.
The whole evil peacock exterminating pandas thing wasn't really cleared up in the movie, for us it was obvious but it never said it, which is what the kids need. I found myself explaning the situation to my brother during and afterwards, which is really the film makers job.
Reading back over this I have made a rather negative point, but the film deserves credit as it did live up the original and didn't vary too much, which is what all sequels should do. The main 'spine' of the story so to speak should always be similiar. Sometimes change is not good.
An enjoyable watch but not as good as it should have been.
My Rating- 3 Stars
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