Despite going against fan-based films Tiny Times 4 and Forever Young, the most anticipated film next week on Weibo is actually The Monkey King: Hero’s Return 西游记之大圣归来 (alternate translation: CUG, can we give a round of applause for whoever came up with that?). The animated feature retells the classic tale with a new twist – the monk is now a child looking for a hero, and the Monkey King a ghost of his former self, having lost all his powers. The animated feature won tears with its MV by Kit Chan alone.
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I just learnt about this film today on tumblr and being a but fan if the original classic story I had to check it out.
It really seems to be splendid in every aspect. Wow! 8 years is a long time. It was Worth it.
Admittedly I’m a little proud I had a slightly – very slightly – simmilar idea for a retelling of Journey to the West. Okay it was a terribly americanized version but also I had the idea to make the monk a little boy.
I’m happy that now there is such a story in the form of this beautiful and cool film with so much more heart and national authenticity than I could ever have thought up.
This is so cute…but how did they come up with CUG?
C for 西（Xi), U for 游（You), G for 记（Ji）. Probably.
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It would be really cool if they could come up with the initials for it so it both sounds and means the same.