KUNG FU PANDA 2: JACK BLACK, ANGELINA JOLIE, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, GARY OLDMAN TORNANO A PRESTARE LA LORO VOCE NEL POPOLARE FRANCHISE D'ANIMAZIONE TARGATO DREAMWORKS
PREVIEW from the WORLD by KYLE SMITH, "NEW YORK POST" - Dal 24 AGOSTO
"Sono cresciuta con gli action-movies di Hong Kong, e ho portato quella sensibilità, in quanto capo della storia, in 'Kung Fu Panda'. Secondo tutti ero abbastanza 'Kung Fu', e ho continuato a infondere quello stato mentale in tutto il film. Penso che una delle chiavi sia che ora tutti conosciamo lo slang di Po. Lavorando su 'Kung Fu Panda 2', quelle esperienze si son miscelate, e adesso spiegano e informano sulla storia che avevamo iniziato a raccontare. Il nostro successo era portare 'Kung Fu Panda' e Po al livello successivo... Questo film segue la tradizione delle arti marziali più di altri film – ci sono spesso questioni che si pongono sul passato di un eroe consacrato di recente, questioni che cercano di sfidarne l‘autorità. Fin dall‘uscita di 'Kung Fu Panda', ci sono state diverse questioni infiammate cui la gente ha cercato risposta. La domanda che sfida ogni spiegazione è: 'Perchè il padre di Po è un‘oca? Per Po, il Guerriero Dragone, fu naturale capire che quello non era il suo padre biologico e ciò lo spinse a cercare le sue vere origini. Nel farlo, scopre che il suo passato è legato a Lord Shen. La sfida del pavone non è casuale, è il lavoro del destino – un elemento sempre in rilievo nei film di arti marziali. Ed è solo quando scopre chi realmente egli è che sarà in grado di affrontare Lord Shen e il suo esercito. Nel primo film abbiamo imparato che gli eroi possono essere di ogni forma e misura, come Po, che assecondando il suo destino è diventato il Guerriero Dragone. Nel sequel, impariamo che il fato ci guida verso il nostro destino, portando nelle nostre vite sia le persone che ci proteggono sia quelle che ci sfidano… permettendo cosi a noi, di realizzare completamente il nostro potenziale".
La regista Jennifer Yuh Nelson
(Kung Fu Panda 2; USA 2011; Animazione; 91'; Produz.: DreamWorks Animation; Distribuz.: Universal pictures International Italy)
In “Kung Fu Panda 2”, Po sta vivendo il suo sogno di Guerriero Dragone, proteggendo la Valle della Pace insieme ad i suoi amici e Maestri del kung fu, I Cinque Cicloni. Ma la nuova mitica vita di Po è offuscata dall’arrivo di un nuovo formidabile cattivo, che cerca di usare un’arma segreta ed inarrestabile per conquistare la Cina e distruggere definitivamente il Kung Fu. Po dovrà scoprire i segreti delle sue misteriose origini e solo a quel punto sarà capace di sbloccare la forza che gli serve per raggiungere la vittoria.
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
Po joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.
Commento critico (a cura di KYLE SMITH, NEW YORK POST - www.nypost.com)
DEFTLY PANDAS TO ITS AUDIENCE
It wouldn't be right to say that, half an hour after "Kung Fu Panda 2" ended, I was starving for laughs again. In truth, I was starving pretty much all the way through. A lot of this movie is like an oxygen dumpling.
But 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. As you exit the theater, be prepared to protect vital organs from low-altitude karate chops that slice the air at about waist height.
The many pleasures of the first film included Jack Black's buzzing nonstop jive as Po and the way his blubbery loser gradually became a Dragon Warrior. Now the character is as fuzzy as Po's belly: Half the time he's kicking butt, the other half he's falling on it. Moreover, now that
every "SportsCenter" host, celebrity gossip and hepcat blogger rattles his vocal cords in fluent Blacktalk ("That's severely cool," "Taste the defeat," "My fist hungers for justice"), it's all starting to take on the air of a Tuesday night lounge act. In Reno. Predictable comedy is dead comedy -- and no, you don't get a pass because half your audience is still mastering long division. Rug-rat chaperones are being asked to pay up to $17 for this in Manhattan. Them is grown-up prices.
Still, the quality of the animation is worth it. In a prologue presented beautifully to look like paper cutouts, we meet the villainous peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), who as a youngster was banished by his parents because of his obsession with finding the dark side of fireworks. This element, together with a sequence in which Po learns about finding inner peace from his Yoda-like master, Shifu (Dustin Hoffman),
by mastering the ability to catch a single raindrop, is essential to setting up the not unrousing big finish.
Po wants to learn a little more about where he came from. Just as a for-instance -- why is Dad a goose? Father explains that Po is indeed adopted, having been discovered in a crate of radishes, but that's all he knows. Po is as hungry for more answers as he is for noodles.
Meanwhile, Lord Shen and his army of wolves are ransacking a town. Po and his five pals (including Angelina Jolie's Tigress and Seth Rogen's Mantis) come to the rescue, although every few minutes it's Po who needs to be saved, usually by Crane picking him up as he plummets into a gorge. Kung Fu Panda was an advanced warrior at the end of the first film, but now he's bumbling again because, well, making fatty fall down
is this movie's primary sense of comedy.
It's a bit hard to be terrified of a peacock (the snow leopard in the first movie was way more sinister). But the animators are in charge, and they succeed in dazzling with Lord Shen's look -- just as they create a sly hand-drawn style for flashbacks of Po's youth. Action scenes such as a battle in a towering pagoda look splendid.
Shen lacks size but does have heavy artillery. He's been stealing all of the metal from the villages to produce a cannon with which he proposes to rule all of China. (Silly bird: If he just made cheap junk he could rule the world, not just China.)
The pattern on Shen's tail feathers breaks loose a memory Po has about how he was parted from his parents as a cub. He comes to suspect that he was abandoned. If so, Shen
and Po have much in common. The script could have done more with this idea: Shen might have tricked Po into joining forces, if for no other reason than to split the cost of a therapist to sort out their daddy issues.
At the end of that nifty third act, there is a warm emotional payoff that comes with a slightly alarming quantity of hugging. (Young cubs, listen well: Bugs Bunny never hugged anyone unless he had a lit stick of dynamite in one hand.) One worthy thing about Po, though: He is not faux. In his bounce and jiggle he contains the toddler's absence of self-consciousness, the puppy's anticipation of infinite joy, Chris Farley's denial of limits. And unlike Farley, KFP can go on forever. As long as he doesn't overdose on bamboo.
- Gara di sguardo fisso - Pensi di poter battere Po? Scoprilo! Accedi alla gara di arti marziali più importante della storia del Kung Fu. Devi tentare di distrarre il Guerriero Dragone e di fargli perdere la concentrazione per diventare il nuovo eroe della Sala dei Guerrieri.
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