![]() ![]() The plot wasn’t very smooth just like it wasn’t heavy either. For a normal viewer who’s not familiar with the Chinese/Hong Kong way of using CGI in their productions, it may cause a problem but as long as you’re willing to keep your mind open and accept unfamiliar styles then everything will be satisfactory after a while. Actually, I considered it a cool experience with that enormous amount of CGI and wires inserted everywhere. It’s true that the special effects were overdone with many misses here and there but having watched several Wuxia films with immense use of CGI in my cinema watching, this doesn’t bother me at all. Well, as long as you’re not here to watch “The Lord of the Ring” then it should be alright. I know, I know the CGI is what bothered many people about this film. The film was full of several eye-catching characters, events and costumes. This version is absolutely the closest and the most accurate one. The novel is in fact one of the fewest Chinese novels I read many years back when I was watching few other adaptations of it. At the end of the day, I came to like this Monkey King version.Īdapted from the mega huge Chinese novel “Journey to the West”, this film actually followed the original novel very closely. ![]() When I finally came around this, I decided to just jump into it without prior judgment. Rewatch Value 4.0 With all the opinions jumping right and left about this film, I had a hard time setting my expectations. Written by Robert Harris / Global Star Productions Edit Translation ![]() Along the way he acquires incredible powers. The first movie is the origins story - beginning with the birth of Sun Wukong and ending with his imprisonment for his crimes under the Five-Peaked Mountain. The Monkey King: Havoc In The Heavenly Palace will be released in the U.S. This first installment in a trilogy of live action 3-D movies is actually a prequel to The Journey To The West, the much told story of the Monkey King's adventures on the road to India. This much beloved story, is as much a part of Asian culture as The Iliad and The Odyssey or The Wizard of Oz are to the West. Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India. Sun Wukong, (The Monkey King) is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. ![]()
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