02-05-2025, 02:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2025, 02:22 AM by Drunk Monk.)
On an impulse I snuck out to catch this in downtown svale. First time at that theater. It’s nice. Easy parking. Goofy development - not the quaint mall it was before. I didn’t know they had an IMAX or I might’ve splurged.
The film would be like jumping in at endgame, or deathly hallows 2 - there’s a lot to catch up on. Every character is announced in that classic Chinese film manner, but if you don’t know who Nezha is, he just buzzes in and out through battles. And there are a lot of battles, starting with an ambush and escalating to a full blown city siege with flying magic eye discs that emit knock out rays to anyone who didn’t drunk the koolaid (actually it looked more like watered down soy milk). There’s battlefield warfare with giants, flying demons, a qilin, sorcerers, and some demigods.
Nashi reprises her role as General Deng and this installment is all about her. I need to rewatch the first one to remember. She stole this one - so fierce. Funny thing is is don’t remember her from part 1. I should’ve watched that again as prep.
Some of the cgi is cheesey like always. And some is cool. The three torsoed blue-glowing demon Yin Jiao was visual. And the legion of snake and bug zombies are intense but that’s just prep for the third and final installment of this trilogy. The tossing cgi horses away is wacky.
This is the first movie I’ve seen that ended with the supertitle - please stay for the three end credit scenes. And squeezed in between those scenes were a ton of credits, each to a melodramatic pop song. But they were good teases.
The film would be like jumping in at endgame, or deathly hallows 2 - there’s a lot to catch up on. Every character is announced in that classic Chinese film manner, but if you don’t know who Nezha is, he just buzzes in and out through battles. And there are a lot of battles, starting with an ambush and escalating to a full blown city siege with flying magic eye discs that emit knock out rays to anyone who didn’t drunk the koolaid (actually it looked more like watered down soy milk). There’s battlefield warfare with giants, flying demons, a qilin, sorcerers, and some demigods.
Nashi reprises her role as General Deng and this installment is all about her. I need to rewatch the first one to remember. She stole this one - so fierce. Funny thing is is don’t remember her from part 1. I should’ve watched that again as prep.
Some of the cgi is cheesey like always. And some is cool. The three torsoed blue-glowing demon Yin Jiao was visual. And the legion of snake and bug zombies are intense but that’s just prep for the third and final installment of this trilogy. The tossing cgi horses away is wacky.
This is the first movie I’ve seen that ended with the supertitle - please stay for the three end credit scenes. And squeezed in between those scenes were a ton of credits, each to a melodramatic pop song. But they were good teases.
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