The IP of "Journey to the West" is really played by capital!
Almost every year, there are big net movies with this IP released, not one, but two, three, four, or even more. Like in 2021, there are "Four Monkeys of the Mixed World: The Return of the Divine Monkey", "Journey to the West of the Rebirth demon king", "Qi Tian Dasheng Peerless", "Journey to the West Bhikkhu Country", which makes the fragmented IP reputation worse.
On October 20th, another "Journey to the West" IP network movie "Journey to the West Red Child" came! The cast includes Mainland actors such as Xu Dongdong, Ji Hao, Ximen Piaopiao, and also invited TVB gold medal Green Leaf Xu Shaoxiong to participate.
The plot is adapted from the "Journey to the West" Flaming Mountain chapter, with Sun Wukong kicking over the Taishang Laojun Dan Furnace five hundred years ago as the introduction, telling the efforts made by Princess Tiefan to protect Cangsheng and the story of the deep love affair with the red child's mother and son.
The best branch plot of the film is the story line of Xu Dongdong and the mother and son of Yuanhao.
Princess Tiefan, played by Xu Dongdong, asked for nectar in order to protect the red child who was eroded by the true fire of the three tastes in her belly, but she had to endure the pain of the separation of mother and son for many years, and guarded the gossip array that suppressed the flame demon. As a left-behind child, the red child grew up eating a hundred meals, and with less ability to distinguish between right and wrong, he was seduced by the wolf demon and fell into the devil.
The Iron Fan Princess has hated the Red Child for iron not steel, and there are also unwillingness, and the drop of nectar hanging around her neck is the Iron Fan Princess's reluctance. When the red child regained his senses and the moment of his demise, he said to the iron fan princess: "Mother, I miss you", touching the audience's tears, a simple sentence of the child's words of missing his mother, at that time it seemed so touching!
And Xu Dongdong also took up the play of Ji Hao, reflecting a mother's wordless love for her child, and finally touched the audience again with a sentence of "You are the most special gift of the mother".
Xu Shaoxiong's sword has not yet arrived, and the character is an important person in the connection of the story.
Xu Shaoxiong is a land duke played in the film, an important figure who conveys information between Sun Wukong and the red child, and his appearance is the role of connecting the plot. Xu Shaoxiong re-acted in costumes after many years, and his acting skills were still online, but due to accent problems, he still chose to dub in the later stage, and there would be a small flaw that the dubbing could not match the lip type.
Casting failures are the biggest problem with the film.
The red child is the appearance of an adult, which makes many viewers uncomfortable, and in the past, the red child was a child. The adult-like red child is not only naughty and lively, but also really red in style, a black hair in the middle of the brain door to add a pinch of red hair, the clothes are also contrasting colors.
The Foursome of the Western Heavens is even more outrageous, and it has nothing to do with the original temperament, and it is not so much for the comedic effect as it is a spoof. Originally a mighty and domineering Sun Wukong, here he became a small demon with a skull's eyebrow, and the focus is that the actor who played Sun Wukong has not found this person on the cast list.
The characters are forcibly whitewashed and weakened, causing discomfort.
In this film, Sun Wukong really pulled people down from the Fighting Array Saint Buddha, and here he became a weak chicken who was afraid of the true fire of the three tastes and could not be beaten by anyone, and learned to admit his mistakes. The matter of admitting mistakes is not in Sun Wukong's dictionary, and it has been completely weakened.
There are also iron fan princesses and bull demon kings who have been whitewashed in this, and they are all evil villains in the original work and some network big and even TV series, and they have become positive characters who save the world and be worshiped by the people.
The plot line is thin and outrageous.
The plot is still to save the world as the main line, the tail is sensational, but it is robbed of the limelight by the iron fan princess and the red child mother and child love branch, the main line story has no memory points, it seems that the mother and child love is the main line.
The red child was killed by Guanyin Bodhisattva in the past, but Sun Wukong was killed at the end of the plot before a big war, and then resurrected, Sun Wukong is a golden body that cannot be penetrated, it is very outrageous!
This movie has highlights and shortcomings, and the film also adds a lot of comedy elements, which is the middle level of the net movie, but the rating of this movie will not be too high!