A magical monkey-man character is created during the rebuilding of heaven's gate. He trains with a master and other pupils before returning to the jungle and arming his monkey friends. He then travels to heaven, where he causes an uproar and eventually turns evil. Upon returning home, he finds his monkey friends dead and this sparks a change in morality.
Someone in China is good at computer animation! The hour 46 duration seemed like a little bit less because of the dense content and quick pacing. I thought that the plot kind of wandered and could have been more cohesive. The main character reminded me of Goku from Dragonball. He even had the power pole and nimbus cloud. There seemed to be the dynamic, humorous Monkey King character and everyone else was static and serious. I think that much of the dialogue got lost in translation, even though there wasn't much anyway. The CG backdrops were amazingly well rendered and everyone's costumes fit their role. There was lots of "camera movement" and quick editing going on in the video side. On audio, we had the expected "epic" soundtrack. The Monkey King's voice kind of irked me. The style was so over the top as to be a negative element. There's only so much CG fantasy that I can tolerate. Other critics agree with me that it's all CG fantasy with no substance. I rate this adequate because it was pretty, but that is all it was.
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