Originally, I did not expect this "Monkey King" produced by Netflix, although it was produced by Stephen Chow.
After reading it, it was quite fragrant.
The combination of Chinese and Western is relatively silky, and the story captures the fragment of the stone monkey making trouble in the Tiangong and being pressed under the Five Finger Mountain until he meets Tang Sanzang.
The background setting of "Monkey King" is not as grand as "Journey to the West". The stone monkey wanted to become an immortal in immortality, so he killed 100 monsters in the house in an attempt to gain the approval of the Heavenly Court.
But the Jade Emperor hated him, the Queen Mother did not like him, and the other immortals ... Then came the Dragon King and the Hades King.
There are not many characters, but it makes the film streamlined. In the past, the Westward Journey universe, dozens of characters took turns to fight, integrated into a movie, in fact, it was quite exhausting.
The production style of "Monkey King" is a relatively intuitive Western anime, but it applies the identity of the Great Saint.
The movie also paid tribute to Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Football", and this producer was not in vain.
There is also the setting of the little girl "Lin", which I think is very good.
She is a mortal, and what Yan Wang Ye's "Record of Life and Death" records is that she is ordinary and does nothing.
I like this kind of character without any mission, even if he eventually helps the Great Sage, it is because of his character, not to put mortals on the fire of salvation and roast.
"Monkey King" is a relatively qualified adaptation of a famous book, after all, if you want to completely subvert this theme, only Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" has done it.
When Sun Wukong was fleeing from the palm of Buddha Rulai, the cloud flew out of the earth, crossed the moon, and finally stopped at what he thought was the end of the universe, the pillar of creation.
The pillar of creation was discovered with the Hubble telescope in 1995, and it is shaped like the five fingers of a human palm.
This movie replaces the fingers of Buddha with the pillar of creation, which is really a bit of a miracle.
Speaking of which, the biggest boss of "Journey to the West" is Buddha Rulai, and even the Qi Tian Great Sage was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain by him.
Such a character should be the most invincible.
This is "the year when he had his hands imprinted and did not know what an opponent was".