With the endorsement of a girl named Lin, Monkey King defeats Red Girl, but the Dragon King arrives during the victory celebration to reclaim his prized weapon. Prompted by the grateful troop, he crowns himself King of the Monkeys, but the troop's elder cautions that his staff should only be used by the gods, so the new Monkey King decides to kill 100 demons, thus gaining the right to become a god.Įventually, he comes to a village terrorized by the Red Girl. Monkey returns to the demon's lair, defeats him, and rescues the cub. Communicating with the column, Monkey turns it into a staff and escapes. To fetch a more suitable weapon, Monkey dives into the sea realm of the Dragon King, who is about to use a glowing column to eradicate all life on the world's surface. After many years, when he deems himself ready, he confronts the demon, but his training proves ineffective, and another cub is snatched. To prove his worth, he trains to fight the demon. One of his escapades causes a feared demon to pounce from his mountain lair and grab one of the troop's cubs for food as a result, Monkey is banished. Monkey finds a troop of other monkeys, but his unruly nature keeps him from fitting in. He gives the order to eliminate the cub, but Buddha appears before him and tells him to let him find his purpose. One night, a monkey is born from a stone atop a tall mountain and disturbs the Jade Emperor. On December 7, it appeared in the eligible list for consideration of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the 96th Academy Awards. The Monkey King was selected as the closing film at the 22nd New York Asian Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on July 30, 2023, and was distributed and released on August 18, 2023, by Netflix. Yang as the voice of the titular trickster, with Bowen Yang, Jo Koy, BD Wong, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, and Stephanie Hsu in supporting roles. It is based on the first 7 chapters of the classic Ming dynasty novel, Journey to the West. The Monkey King is a 2023 animated fantasy action comedy film directed by Anthony Stacchi from a screenplay written by Rita Hsiao and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J.
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