09-08-2025, 12:21 AM
The Monkey King (2023)
Jimmy O Yang voices the Monkey King and I like Jimmy. Bowen Yang is the Dragon King and I’ve had enough of him already. Stephanie Hsu, Hoon Lee, Jo Koy and other leading Asians have roles. But oh man, what a painful watch. The thing is that there’s so many good Monkey King adaptations, and this one flagrantly defies canon for no good reason at all. It’s just a mess of a film, with Monkey talking to his staff like knight rider and his car, and the staff does all the heavy lifting. This is just a horrid retelling with hackneyed cgi animation.
I didn’t even make it halfway through.
Seen on Netflix
Jimmy O Yang voices the Monkey King and I like Jimmy. Bowen Yang is the Dragon King and I’ve had enough of him already. Stephanie Hsu, Hoon Lee, Jo Koy and other leading Asians have roles. But oh man, what a painful watch. The thing is that there’s so many good Monkey King adaptations, and this one flagrantly defies canon for no good reason at all. It’s just a mess of a film, with Monkey talking to his staff like knight rider and his car, and the staff does all the heavy lifting. This is just a horrid retelling with hackneyed cgi animation.
I didn’t even make it halfway through.
Seen on Netflix
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