Journey to the West

Magnet Releasing | Release Date: March 7, 2014

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Ratings

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CriticoDubiosoOct 29, 2016

Maybe not the worst movie that I've ever seen, but certainly up there. Really a far cry from Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer. I don't even know where to start with how bad it is because it goes wrong at basically every juncture.

There'sMaybe not the worst movie that I've ever seen, but certainly up there. Really a far cry from Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer. I don't even know where to start with how bad it is because it goes wrong at basically every juncture.

There's really no understandable reason for anything happening and everything just serves as a poor attempt to connect the dots between the action set-pieces which are themselves just a mess of bad CGI and poor design choices. All the beats of the film are completely predictable. It's impossible to not be distracted by the seemingly random use of CGI in virtually every shot. The dialog is generic schlock. The humor is painfully unfunny. Maybe Seth Rogen consulted on the script because a number of the "jokes" were just someone repeating something over and over and over again, so even if it had been funny initially, it lost any semblance of humor on the third or fourth time they said it.

I went into the movie with really no expectations other than a very, very base idea of the original story of The Journey to the West. Just from watching the movie I could tell that this movie was a very poor interpretation. Reading up on it further has only strengthened that feeling. I understand why they added a love interested character (many people are unfortunately unable to watch movies without a crappy love story shoehorned in) but they could have at least had the courtesy to force her into the story in an interesting way. I can't get over how bad their dialog and interaction is. It's just so terrible.

I was fully expecting to see this in the 20% range on Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and all those site. It blows my mind that that someone started a review with the words "not terrible." Yes, terrible. Do not watch this movie. It is bad. And not enjoyable bad, just boring and predictable bad. I don't understand how the majority consensus is that this is an enjoyable film. If you watch this move and enjoy it, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and think about your own complete lack of taste.

If you saw and enjoyed Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer and see this movie and think "hey, I liked those other movies, maybe this one will be alright," resist that impulse. In Bruges, The Professional, Summer Wars, 22 Jump Street, Alien, Jackie Chan's First Strike, Whiplash, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Edge of Tomorrow, John Carpenter's The Thing, Casablanca. What do these films have in common? They're all roughly the same length as this terrible movie and are all a much better use of your time. If you feel tempted to watch this, watch one or all of those instead. That's not to say that they're all perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but they're all way more worth your time.

1 point for having the basic components of a movie (cameras pointed at actors saying lines with music in the background) and another point because Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle were good. It's sad to say, but Stephen Chow seems to have been replaced with a talent-less hack bodysnatcher.… Expand

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