What lifts the film is not just its high-kicking fight sequences, but the sharpness of the writing (by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger), the vibrant animation and the sheer, good-natured relish and gusto with which the film-makers attack their material. Some of the puns are a bit on the feeble side: when there is talk of justice being served, Po immediately orders two justice platters.
Certain plot elements and some of the characters owe a very direct debt to Star Wars. Li Chan looks like him, sounds like him and eats even more dumplings than he does… but does that really mean that they might be related?
Po already has one (adopted) father in the shape of Mr Ping (voiced by James Hong), the goose, but when his real dad Li Chan (Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston) turns up, the poor panda is more bewildered than ever.
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