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The Sorcerer and the White Snake(白蛇传说)

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China, Hong Kong · 2011
Rated PG-13 · 1h 40m
Director Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Starring Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Wen Zhang
Genre Action, Fantasy

The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.

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Village Voice by

Visually unspectacular and emotionally stillborn, The Sorcerer and the White Snake fails as both a fantasy and a romance.

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Variety by Justin Chang

Overblown saga of shape-shifting demons, butt-kicking clerics and the perils of interspecies romance occasionally dazzles but finally frazzles with its relentless visual assault, embedding Jet Li and his capable castmates in one screensaver-ready fantasy backdrop after another.

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NPR by Mark Jenkins

This China/Hong Kong co-production flips the formula: The fantastic images are solid, but the action is less substantial.

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

A mad, laugh-out-loud mashup of “The Little Mermaid,” “Harry Potter,” assorted vampire tales, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the disaster epic “2012” and oh – “Pokemon” – just to impose the cinematic precedents on display here, Sorcerer is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword and sorcery genre which caused Hollywood to impose “Clash of the Titans” and “Immortals” on the undeserving.

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