A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995)
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
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What a waste of my time!!!
Sorry, this movie sucks
Awesome Movie
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Based on the novel'Journey To The West',but not the original version,also not the traditional way the story goes.Born in China as a 90's,i've been reading the novel since i was 6,so were others,basically every kids here knows that the Monkey King--Son Goku was punished for his sins and forced to gain freedom by a tough way--escorting Tang Priest to the very west,also been through a lot suffering.Trust me,that is only halfway from my knowledge of Goku. Til this movie showed up and blew my mind. As a very foreign movie, some may consider it as a comedy,but it's actually a tragedy for Goku and Zixia.(or should i say Stephen Chow and Athena Chu?)So be sure to watch two parts to fully understanding the whole story,and the emotion.Like i said,LAUGH TIL I CRY.
This is one crazy movie, with martial arts monkeys, ladies who become giant spiders, and all sorts of devils and other supernatural characters wandering around causing trouble. It's fun, funny, and wacky.One interesting thing is that it's a movie full of strong women and weak men. You don't see that too often. True, love slows the women up, but outside of that they are tough as can be.I saw this movie with badly-done subtitles I downloaded off the Internet, so I was sometimes a little unclear as to what was going on, but the movie is such crazy fun that I barely minded.
This is a nice movie, including the second part.You can really appreciate the imagination and some twisted sense of humor. Decent fighting scenes, pretty woman and impressive art design. The story is, well, kind of freaky, so all this together make this film very surreal, but entertaining enough. Stephan Chow, genius as usual, is very helpful. You can see that Jeffrey Lau got a lot on his mind. In this movie he presents identities in crisis, internal struggles, personal development and learning, some religious, cultural and social issues, including sexual problems. All this presented to the viewers through fantastic story, while completely ignoring the laws of Fisics. But the way he chooses to make his statements or opinions looks strange, simplistic and not complete, at least to Western culture cynic like me. There a lot of movies dealing with the same stuff in another way, more realistic and, that's why, more powerful. So, it's great Mr Lau are talking and presenting this sort of themes in his personal and interesting own way, but the movie is not for everyone. His extreme fantasy takes the viewers far away from reality, it's all very distant, like some alien world. The plot and the characters are very confusing sometimes, this unbelievable environment seems artificial and doubtful, so the movie has no real impact, no meaningful influence, it's like grabbing water with hand. You know you felt something, but there is nothing left.
Should be watched together with "xian lu qi yuan" (part II, Cinderella) And definitely should have been re-edited -- cut those bad and meaningless run-and-chases and combine the two to make a decent romance comedy.