Ashamed, Wukong leaves Heaven and returns to find Mount Huaguo destroyed and all his friends dead, including Ruxue who has a dark substance around her neck. Wukong consumes the elixir and battles Erlang until he flees. Wukong is restrained by Subhuti and told to leave but Erlang challenges him to take the Elixir. Erlang, disguised as a maiden, tempts him by revealing that the Emperor's elixir is made there. Princess Iron Fan learns of the Demon King's plan, who justifies his attack as destiny. Wukong meets the Emperor, and is given a position caring for the stables. The Demon King and Erlang conspire further, revealing that if Wukong consumes the Emperor's elixir, it will increase his power.Įrlang tries to convince the Jade Emperor that Wukong is a demon but Subhuti intervenes, explaining Wukong is not evil. Wukong journeys to Heaven and learn the secret to immortality. Wukong befriends the Demon King, who appeals to Wukong's ego and tempts him with Heaven's treasures, including immortality.
The pair are attacked by Nezha, but is killed by the Bull Demon King. He promises to make her immortal after learning she will die when she turns 200 years old.
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The Vixen, who reveals her name to be Ruxue, reunites with her old friend, Wukong. After the Dragon King informs Heaven of Wukong's destruction, Erlang sends Nezha to arrest him.
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She is revealed to be the nine-tailed fox and the Demon King as the force that whisked her away, claiming to have saved her life. The Bull Demon King asks a young Vixen if she'd like to meet her old friend again. After defeating the Dragon King, Wukong becomes intrigued by a staff planted in the sea. Wukong travels to the palace of the Dragon King to find weapons for the Mount Huaguo monkeys. The plan is kept secret from Princess Iron Fan, who is pregnant with the Demon King's child. Erlang agrees to help the Demon King in exchange for getting to kill his uncle and take Heaven's throne. The Bull Demon King plans to invade heaven again by using Wukong and preying on Erlang's anger towards the Jade Emperor. Years later, the monkey is taken in and trained by Subhuti, naming him Sun Wukong. A nine-tailed fox is scarred after touching the crystal and whisked away by a mysterious force. One of the crystals falls to Mount Huaguo, taking the form of a monkey over time. The Jade Emperor appoints his nephew Erlang Shen to guard the Southern Gate, despite Erlang's resentment of the task. The goddess Nüwa sacrifices her body to rebuild Heaven with crystals. The Emperor's sister and Bull Demon King's lover, Princess Iron Fan, convinces the Emperor to spare him and banishes him, Princess Iron Fan, and the rest of the demons to Flaming Mountain.
#MONKEY KING 4 IMDB MOVIE#
However, I always believes that one cannot evaluate a movie only by looking at how much it makes, neither an actor nor a director.During an attack on Heaven, the Bull Demon King battles and loses against the Jade Emperor, the ruler of Heaven. The two I mentioned already made more than 100 million RMB on their first day respectively, but only about 20 million for Monkey King due to the lack of exposure and coverage. Something even worse is that, although I admire the crew's courage and resolution, they chose to compete with extremely fan-based Tiny Times 4.0 and Forever Young, which are acted by a bunch of idols with tons of fans in China. The bad thing is that, because they almost used up all their budget on the film's creation and modification, they literally didn't do anything on marketing and advertising. The animations and features are just impressive, maybe not as good as many of the western masterpieces, but definitely good enough to describe it as unprecedented in China's animation history. The plot of Monkey King is quite common, especially in western movies: the fallen hero's rebirth, but this kind of themes still attracts large portion of audience and wins lots of tears, including those of the two little boys who sat next to me during the movie. The latter actually made nearly 300 million RMB in China. It is probably the first Chinese animation for adolescent and adult audience, comparing to childish Pleasant Goat& Big Big Wolf and Bonnie Bears. After watching it, I would say it absolutely deserves my expectation and infinite applause.
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I went to the cinema with hesitation actually,thinking that I might have too much expectation on it, and was kind of afraid that it would let me down. I don't know if it was because I'm too sentimental or what, but I was literally tearing when I was watching the trailer with the moving song by Kit Chan.