Monkey King: Hero Is Back

2015 [CHINESE]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 5097 5.1K

based on novel or book buddhism xianxia journey to the west nezha monkey king

Director

Xiaopeng Tian Photo
Xiaopeng Tian

Top cast

Jackie Chan Photo
Jackie Chan as Monkey King
James Hong Photo
James Hong as Old Monk
Roger Craig Smith Photo
Roger Craig Smith as Pig
Feodor Chin Photo
Feodor Chin as Evil Lord
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810.62 MB
1280*546
Chinese 2.0
PG
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 9
1.47 GB
1912*816
Chinese 2.0
PG
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 22

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BabelAlexandria 7 / 10

Not Your Grandfather's Jungle Book Monkey King

The animation is kind of clunky and the characterization leaves a lot to be desired, but the scenery and battles are epic, and there's something touching about the bond between the monkey king and the persistent boy monk. And it's interesting that the great jade king was cast down from heaven and became a great, corpulent, cowardly pig. My 6-year old son Sebastian particularly liked this movie.
Reviewed by hooraychining 7 / 10

Advantage & disadvantage

Advantages:1, The character image is more mature.In the animation image design, the film didn't use children's characters for leading roles, like Monkey King, make the characters more mature.The image of Monkey King and Pig Zhu Bajie are all adult who have a background of adult socialization, which is beneficial to the depth of the hero image, rather than the superficial adventures.It is very distinctive that Villain the leading monster's face design for Sichuan Opera Face, and the leading monster's body feels elegant in the sky, I would like give him a name of "the beauty of evil".But after he become a big worm, disgusting, and the modeling of the worm, feel copying the image of the other films.2, Technical level greatly ascend.The mouth moving is more realistic;The background picture more rich layered. Disadvantages:1, The plot is weak.Writers had neither according to the novel, nor made innovation. The screenplay is only designed some abused poking fun which amused the audience once or twice. Even more worse, the focus is not prominent that the Monkey King turned into a hero of justice, slightly weak, it is not enough to convince me.2, Poor continuity in action.Action before and after in a few action scene is not smooth, give me a feeling of unknown cause and effect.3, Insert abrupt improper music.When the Monkey King, Pig Zhu Bajie, and Liu went alliance, background music style suddenly turned from the traditional Chinese opera into rock & roll, it appeared not harmonious.
Reviewed by chris-chong-ch 8 / 10

Finally a great Chinese animated picture!

I truly recommend this movie for all! I have long been disappointed of Chinese animated pictures. But now they have got talents, great animators. Great "new thinking" plot on a well exploited story, great characters with real emotions as motivation for character development, great camera-work, great character design, great action and so on! But there is still one thing almost all Chinese animation lack, including this one, and that is good sound effects. The movie feels unintuitive and unnatural at times, because the sound doesn't match what's happening in the screen.In short, see this movie! If you want to see a great Chinese animated picture!
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