The Hollywood Reporter by Clarence Tsui
The Demon Strikes Back soldiers loudly along, alternating between high-octane, digitally enhanced skirmishes and the equally cacophonic bickering between the monk and the monkey.
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China · 2017
Rated PG-13 · 1h 49m
Director Tsui Hark
Starring Kris Wu, Lin Gengxin, Yao Chen, Lin Yun
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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The Monkey King is back in this sequel to the 2013 Stephen Chow film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons. Now tamed by Tang Sanzang, the Monkey King has become one of Tang's disciples. Tang, Monkey King, Sandy, and Pigsy band together to fight demons as they continue their journey west.
The Hollywood Reporter by Clarence Tsui
The Demon Strikes Back soldiers loudly along, alternating between high-octane, digitally enhanced skirmishes and the equally cacophonic bickering between the monk and the monkey.
The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger
If anything, Demons Strike Back is an even zanier and more kid-friendly affair than the Chow original. Yet without Chow’s unique strain of silliness, it also feels louder and more antic while covering less ground.
RogerEbert.com by Scout Tafoya
The result is both a madcap success on its own bizarre terms and an informative distillation of each auteur's sensibility.
Wu and Lin have great chemistry, but only because Chow was smart enough to reimagine Journey to the West as a rare character-driven big-budget action-adventure — the kind of thing Americans might love if they knew it existed.
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