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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

I. Introduction

a: Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

b: Although theoretically taking place in Ancient China, on Earth, several common laws of physics are permanently bent and altered.

II. Weight/Strength alterations

a: Po jumping far more than he should be able to (based on size, weight, and leg length) (3:56), leaping up to the roof of a first story building (8:50), falling down from a tower and surviving unhurt (47:23), leaping off a cliff and into a battle 7:33) 

b: Being blown out of a tower and across a city, into a harbor, and surviving.

c: Characters carrying  Po being carried by Crane flying (6:40), but later  Viper struggles to bear the panda's weight during the cart chase (37:12).

d: Mantis carrying a pig on a rock (8:05)

e: Mantis picking Po up (10:23) 

f: The continuation of the Cart Scene chase, despite not having any visible force pushing the cart uphill and then into dramatic jumps; (38:15)

g:  Contradicted when Po struggles to walk or even sit up (25:20), Contradicted by weight struggles with a bunny carrying a large dumpling 15:48

III. Unrealistic handling/catching of moving or non-solid objects

a: Shifu and Po catching, rolling, and then letting go of single droplets of water (4:40, 1:02:22)

b. Po caught, juggled, and volleyed cannonballs back after being fired on to rip apart more ships (1:15:11)

IV. Inconsistencies in sharpness and  toughness of weapons and other solid objects:

a: Mantis being able to cut sword blades with his front legs (8:14), but is is unable to break out of a cage with thinner metal bars than the swords.

b: Knife cutting effortlessly through a wodden beam in the door (16:30)

c: The interactions of the canon balls, which is stopped by a metal cooking pan at 58:20, and can be , Cannon balls still bring down an entire building, rip through a stone wall and three piled ships (1:11:40)

V. Conclusion

a: KFP2 toys a lot with weight and strength, multiple characters ping ponging back and forth with unrealistic ability to being barely able to handle an average weight challenge.

b: Certain substances, like water, or objects like the cannonballs have their own gravity and force, allowing them to be handled in unreal ways.

c: In the universe objects' mass and strength change, from the organic to the inorganic.

d: Although a lot of the force used and weights shift throughout the movie, it is consistent enough to become believable and normalized over the course of the story, and does not interfere or become too blatant to the point of being a distraction.