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Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

shubhamsrivastavalu This story goes around two demon hunters with two different hunting styles falling in love with each other but unable to find love as Tang is more determined towards ending evil. Tang is of the opinion of reforming the evil with the use of his nursery rhythms. But things move the other way round when they encounter a powerful demon. Buddha comes to the rescue and helps reform the demons. This is a good fantasy especially on its philosophical part. Comedy is average and fighting sequence meets the expected lines. Overall good to watch.

anmesimer The Chinese film, Journey to the West is based off the book Journey to the West. This film is said to be a kind of intro to the book. It is an action packed love story, with several twists and turns. The main character, Xuanzang, is a young Buddhist monk who is a sought out hero. At the beginning of the movie, he tries to save the people of a small wooden town from a demon. He faces rejection, but never stopped fighting for the people who turned their backs to him. He returns to his master and tells him that maybe he is not the chosen one, but his master says that he is. Xuanzang's master tells him to use a book of nursery rhymes to fight his battles. Xuanzang's goal is to become the greatest demon hunter there is. On his journey, he faces many battles with other demons and demon hunters who are all fighting for the same goal. At the end of the film, Xuanzang faces the hardest battle of his life. He experiences pain, loss, and heartbreak. These three casualties, motivate him to beat his greatest enemy and reach enlightenment.

Cameron Crawford I liked the Buddhism aspects of this movie, it made it enjoyable to watch from a cultural aspect. The plot of the movie was pretty bland, generally ranging from fighting the next demon. The CGI demons in the movie were made fairly badly, but I did enjoy how they came from the bad behavior of those humans. The main character of the movie was the most interesting luckily, so that made this movie enjoyable to watch. He was trying to cleanse the demons rather than kill and capture them. I liked how he used a more peaceful, Buddhist like path to cleanse them through the 300 Nursery Rhymes. The love interest in this movie was fairly boring in my opinion and felt very forced and unnecessary. This movie at times was trying too hard to be funny, which made it just seem ridiculous and not needed. (ie: the fat lady jumping on the board) Overall I found this movie to be fairly enjoyable from a cultural perspective, but I did not enjoy it from a comedy perspective.

lilopez I do not know if I liked Journey to the West or not. It was certainly different from other movies that I have seen. It was also overly dramatized, but I guess that is what makes the movie funny. Something that I do like about this movie is the reverse gender role. Usually, in movies, there is a guy trying to save a helpless girl; however, Duan, the female lead, is stronger and more capable Sanzang, the leading male. She is also the leader of her demon slaying party and saves Sanzang many times. On the other hand I did not like romance part of the Journey to the West. It seems forced and unnecessary. In the movie, they do not build to being in love, it just happens out of the blue.