However, not everything is as you may think.
Firstly, this is a 'short'. It only goes for 24 minutes and to ask for the price they were asking for the DVD is tantamount to robbery. Of course they know that parents everywhere are going to buy this new story if their kids were excited about the first movie. They also try and pad it out with some more crappy bonus features too.
The story has Master Shifu putting Po into an impossible situation of teaching Kung Fu to a group of young ones (rabbits!?). To get them to listen and learn, Po tells them a story about each of the Furious Five. The idea is to teach them that Kung Fu is not just all about fighting, but using your head too.
The best part of this is that Jack Black AND Dustin Hoffman return to provide the voices of Po and Master Shifu respectively. Thsi makes up for a thin package.
Also, when Po is teaching the young ones, it is in the CGI of the movie, but when the stories are being told, it is in traditional 2D animation. Considering how short this was, I am sure they could have animated this fully in CGI.
So is it worth it? For completists, it's a definite. For others, if you can pick it up for about $8, go fo it, but it is not really worth any more than that. While the themes are good for kids to learn, I have to take off points for it's scant length. 5/10
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