Los Angeles Times by Michael Ordona
There are fun characters and dazzling action sequences. The filmmakers’ approach to rethinking legendary figures and placing them in a kind of timeless, weirdly teched-out reality is intriguing.
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China · 2022
2h 7m
Director Zhao Ji
Starring Kai Wang, Ji Guanlin, Li Lihong, Lanling Li
Genre Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
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Los Angeles Times by Michael Ordona
There are fun characters and dazzling action sequences. The filmmakers’ approach to rethinking legendary figures and placing them in a kind of timeless, weirdly teched-out reality is intriguing.
“Yang Jian” offers vivid and exciting animation matched with traditional Chinese mythic storytelling to deliver an entertaining film.
The New York Times by Robert Daniels
Even for fans of this animated universe, New Gods: Yang Jian can’t turn its viewers into believers.
New Gods: Yang Jiang is worth watching for its novel animated action sequences, but its muddled story lacks the punch of its predecessor, New Gods: Nezha Reborn.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
While the first hour of “New Gods: Yang Jian” is about as attractive as it is surreal, the back half only works if you care about the destinies of its undistinguished protagonists.
Weapons that send an enemy into a dream state or a phantasmagorical world give director Zhao all the opportunity he needs to radically change animation styles, or fill the screen with wild fantasy images. This is a movie worth seeing on the biggest screen available.
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