Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

2014 "It's time to kick some legendary tale."
6.7| 1h50m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 07 March 2014 Released
Producted By: Huayi Brothers Pictures
Country: Hong Kong
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In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
VividSimon Simply Perfect
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
jedavis-46864 This film was very interesting and funny. The main character Xuan Zang is a demon hunter. He is different from the other demon hunters because he uses a different approach. Instead of using violence he uses a book of nursery rhymes to bring out the innocence in the demons. He meets a lady named Miss Daun who helps him hunt demons. She is always coming in to save him from the demons. Instantly she falls in love with him. Throughout the movie we see her trying to prove to him that she loves him back. Only when he realizes it, it is too late. This helps him come to his ultimate Buddha and find what he has been missing all along. Xuan Chang shows courage throughout the movie because he doesn't give up and believes in the good of the demons. He even manages to defeat the legendary Monkey King. This shows us that anything can be accomplished even when you least expect it.
Cameron Crawford I liked the Buddhism aspects of this movie, it made it enjoyable to watch from a cultural aspect. The plot of the movie was pretty bland, generally ranging from fighting the next demon. The CGI demons in the movie were made fairly badly, but I did enjoy how they came from the bad behavior of those humans. The main character of the movie was the most interesting luckily, so that made this movie enjoyable to watch. He was trying to cleanse the demons rather than kill and capture them. I liked how he used a more peaceful, Buddhist like path to cleanse them through the 300 Nursery Rhymes. The love interest in this movie was fairly boring in my opinion and felt very forced and unnecessary. This movie at times was trying too hard to be funny, which made it just seem ridiculous and not needed. (ie: the fat lady jumping on the board) Overall I found this movie to be fairly enjoyable from a cultural perspective, but I did not enjoy it from a comedy perspective.
Elinor Journey to the West is a Chinese film that focuses on the Buddhist traditions and beliefs. This was a very interesting and entertaining film. I liked the way that it used the concept of Buddhism in the movie, and made things science fiction, resembling to American films. In the beginning of the film there is a village and they are being attacked by a demon creature.The main character Chen presents himself as a demon hunter, and tells the village that he will protect everyone from the demon, but yet fails to do so. In replacement to his position is a woman named Duan who presents herself as a demon hunter as well, and yet she succeeds at turning the fish creature into a toy. After this scene Duan always finds Chen and comes to his rescue in the troubling times, when he does not know how to protect himself. Duan showed her love for Chen in the film, but Chen never did and this was the main conflict. My favorite character was Chen, because at the end of the film even though he failed at protecting Duan from the monkey king, he admitted to have loved her all along. After this overview, I would rate this film a 4/5.
olrovin Journey to the West directed by Stephen Chow was a very interesting movie. In some ways it was similar to some goofy American comedies that I have seen. I liked how it used a serious idea like Buddhism to underlie the story and then brought in various ridiculous, goofy scenes to add some comedic relief. I found that I laughed out loud a couple times which I honestly did not expect would happen so I was pleasantly surprised. I loved that there was a powerful female warrior character, Duan, who got stuff done. It was interesting how Chen, the main male character, was portrayed as weak and almost childish. In the end, however, Chen showed his strength when he handled extreme pain caused by the Monkey King, the king of all demons, and called the Buddha to come defeat him. That was my favorite part because although Duan was killed by the Monkey King, Chen finally admitted that he had loved Duan all along. It was devastatingly sad because they could never be together since she was dying, but I was happy that he admitted to loving her. Overall, I would give this film four out of five stars.