As he trains with a pack of human disciples who mock him for being more simian than they are, Monkey picks up skills, weapons, and a monumental ego. Monkey's fate, so it seems, can bring peace or chaos his own mischievous personality balanced between good and evil. Monkey (Yen) is one of the vestiges of Nüwa's grace, cast down to the mortal realm and trapped in a mountain. The film opens with an epic war in the heavens, one that results in the goddess Nüwa having to sacrifice herself to rebuild the celestial palace of the Jade Emperor (Chow). Brew all those mistakes together, and director Cheang Pou-Soi has really mucked it up big-time.

The CGI is mostly awful, and the make-up/costumes almost laughably amateurish. All three stars are hamstrung in their roles, forced to play the fool or brood anti-heroically in place of a script that actually gives them something real and meaty to do. The movie is remarkably faithful to some elements of the novel, and deviates tragically in others. In practice, everything about The Monkey King screams travesty. In theory, this is a film to get enormously excited about. Hollywood talents have been recruited to oversee the make-up and special effects for the film. It stars three of Chinese cinema's most familiar and respected faces: Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-Fat and Aaron Kwok. It's an adaptation of Journey To The West, the classic Chinese novel which tells the hugely-beloved tale of a daring, gifted monkey who falls from the heavens and must find his way back again. On paper, everything about The Monkey King screams blockbuster.

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