Best moment in the movie:
At the end, just as the main bad guy (Shu) is going to receive his just fate, in a fit of rage, he shouts at our heroes, "You... you liberals!"
Now, I understand that he’s upset, but I don’t think such profanity was ne... (read more) Best moment in the movie:
At the end, just as the main bad guy (Shu) is going to receive his just fate, in a fit of rage, he shouts at our heroes, "You... you liberals!"
Now, I understand that he’s upset, but I don’t think such profanity was necessary.

it was either a 1 or 5 star for me it was so cheesy that I was torn. It played up on the bad cgi and although the acting was not terrible the plot was cute.

It's a cheesy and cheap throw-away film. But it's kind of cute and endearing, and a decent tribute to "Journey To The West". A guilty pleasure.

This was by far the worst and most pathetic attempt at film making i have ever been suckered into watching out of bordem. Shit-tastic CGI thorughout couldn't even make this horrifyingly vomit inducing piss-poor excuse for a japanese hemroid come clo... (read more) This was by far the worst and most pathetic attempt at film making i have ever been suckered into watching out of bordem. Shit-tastic CGI thorughout couldn't even make this horrifyingly vomit inducing piss-poor excuse for a japanese hemroid come close to being watchable.

This was a failed attempt to modernized a traditional Chinese folklore. First off, where did the producers of the film came up with the idea of adding a Caucasian character to the field of Chinese characters and elements? Like what, were they trying... (read more) This was a failed attempt to modernized a traditional Chinese folklore. First off, where did the producers of the film came up with the idea of adding a Caucasian character to the field of Chinese characters and elements? Like what, were they trying to Americanized the story or something? Though the story wasn't half bad, I was a hoping it kept the Chinese mythologies and flare. Plus, I remembered there were a lot of Buddhist undertones in the original story, but it seemed this film downplayed it, and that was so disappointing. The film's cast was alright, nothing to rave about. The visuals and art direction was fine too, but it wasn't unique or on par with other Hallmark Entertainment offerings. Overall, the film was enjoyable, to an extent, but failed to keep the Chinese elements of the story.

I love this feel good movie. It is total B flick cheese but it's my pick me up when I'm sick or sad.

NO STARS. This was the worst five hours of movie crammed into three hours of watching. If my brain had a crotch, this movie would have spent the whole time smashing it with a hammer. Truly, truly atrocious.

The dude from Dharma and Greg plays The Scholar and leads the pack with the Goddess to the Journey to the West. The novel is such a masterpiece and this TV-film adaptation honestly wasn't so bad. It's good for killing time, but nothing more.

Okay, Sunday morning flicking through Sky and Jenny & I stumble upon this random film. before we know it we're hooked for no apparent reason other than it promises to feature a pig/man and a monkey king, I guess.

It's a bizarre story about a histori... (read more) Okay, Sunday morning flicking through Sky and Jenny & I stumble upon this random film. before we know it we're hooked for no apparent reason other than it promises to feature a pig/man and a monkey king, I guess.

It's a bizarre story about a historian who is taken to some mythical Chinese land in a kind of Neverending Story type way in order to train to become an immortal warrior to save our own dimension from dissappearing - something about a book getting destroyed - whatever.

Anyway, it's a bit of fun and we certainly got a lot of laughs out of it (the pig/man has to keep making references about how he's always eating and there's a big strong warrior who doesn't know how to be funny, seriously!)

However, be warned; Sky shows the film in two parts which we didn't realise and Part 1 ends so abruptly (pretty much mid-scene) that we screamed profanity at the TV over how rediculous an ending, only later to realise that Part 2 was on later in the afternoon. Imagine watching the first 'Lord of The Rings' and not realising it was to be continued - yeah.

Nothing amazing, some reasonable special effects considering this must have been quite low budget for TV and entertaining to while away the time...all three hours - lol.