The Monkey King: Reborn
- kinetic
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When the irritable monkey king visits a temple together with his master Tang Monk, he feels offended because of a trifle and thereupon accidentally destroys a magic tree growing on the sacred ground. This brings an ancient demon king back to life, who promptly kidnaps Tang Monk to take revenge for his long imprisonment. The monkey king and his followers have only three days to not only save their master but also to prevent the demon king from regaining his full powers and destroying the world…
Our read · The Monkey King: Reborn (2021) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Monkey King
What watching it is actually like.
“You want kinetic Chinese myth animation with superpowered demon battles.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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