a5c7b9f00b Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. He develops complex feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who repeatedly helps him, and finally quests to meet the legendary Monkey King. Journey To The West is now one of my favorite movies that I have watched, foreign or otherwise. I thought it was a hilarious movie to watch and sometimes I even forgot that it was in a different language. I also found myself picking up a lot of the subtle jokes, sucha nose bleeding part, when the rest of the people watching it with me didn't seem to understand. It was a lot of dry humor and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the animation was beautiful, both the execution and the artistic style that they chose for it. The directing of the movie was very good, and I liked the tie ins to mythology. It's rare to find movies that deal with mythology in a new light that is successful, and I think Journey To The West did an excellent job explaining it. I really don't have any complaints for the movie, and I can't wait for an English translation to be released for the sequel. I am a Stephan Chow fan. So much so that I would go gay for him BUT have an asexual realtionship with him. I just want to spendmuch time with himpossible in a relationship without gay sex. I just want to see him come out of the shower wearing a bath robe, and shake his hand, and eat meals with him and tell him what a fan I am because I am, but this movie sucks. It just sucks because it's funny only in certain circumstances but then has no underlying great story to it. It's characters are all underdeveloped and I don't know much about them because their depth is kept very shallow. It's like Stephen Chow got bored one day and said "I want to make a movie" and wrote a script in 1-2-3. The most time consuming parts about making this movie must have been setting up the CGI, the costumes/sets, and getting the right contracts and what-not. Otherwise i felt with this movies writing it could have been shot on a shoe-string budget by a few friends with a hand-held camera and the will and determination to tell this story to others. It's not a bad story, but it gets lost in the elaborate special effects and small jokes every couple of minutes. It's fun to watch, don't get me wrong, but it's like a junk food that is too sweet and leads to an 'Ugh' feeling after a while. This movie was not satisfying for me, instead I had too many conflicting emotions in me. I was angry at the main character, angry at the female lead for being so persistent to get the MC to love her without a motive, and angry at the demons for not having a justification for their evil deeds. Every character should have a motive for doing what they do- even the bad guys, and in this case the bad guys didn't have one- the monkey king did- but even so he seemed more despicable than I would have liked him to be and I was not satisfied the direction this movie took with every character and it's overall story from the get-go. I would have told it so much differently and that is the mark of a bad movie/story in my opinion. A Chinese Odyssey is a much better movie/story than this. The camera swoops and whooshes about but never generates any compelling energy — Chow's film proves endlessly manic but devoid of much mirth.
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