The Monkey King 3 - Another Adaptation of Journey to the West Stories

I was kind of looking forward to see this movie when it premiered in Indonesia a day before the Chinese New Year holiday. But as I mentioned in my review of Monster Hunt 2, the locations of the theaters playing the movie were not idealistic to me. Fortunately my wife found out that the movie finally play in one of our most favorite theater, and we immediately decided to see this one. So last night we set aside our time and went to the theater for 6.40 PM show. Well let us get on with the movie now. 

Brief Story Line

Movie started with our beloved characters Sun Wukong, the Monkey King (Aaron Kwok - The Detective, Divergence etc) together with his teacher Tang Sanzang, the Buddhist Monk (William Feng - Wolf Totem, Prince of Lan Ling TV series), and the other disciples Zhu Bajie the pig demon (Xiao Shenyang - Some Like it Hot, Detective Chinatown etc) and Sha Wujing the water demon (Law Him - Young and Dangerous: Reloaded, Your Class or Mine TV series etc) were passing through a river in their journey to the west.

Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back - Sequel to Great Comedy Interpretation of the Famous Chinese Literature

Few weeks ago, I saw in the various websites about this movie going to play in Indonesian cinemas sometime in February 2017. When I saw the very brief synopsis that it was a sequel to a Stephen Chow's movie, I immediately told my wife that we got to see this one. Lucky for us, the original movie was available through online streaming, so we could see it first before we watch the sequel (thanks to her who managed to find it). Well let us get on to the movie now.

Brief Story Line

The movie started with Monk Tang Seng (Kris Wu - xXx: Return of Xander Cage) who during his journey to the West had to endure the hardship and make some money by providing "show" in the circus which involved his three disciples who were actually demons that he captured earlier. The eldest was the mischievous rebellious Monkey King: Sun Wukong (Lin Gengxin - brief role in The Great Wall and God of War, Zhao Yun TV series). The second was the pig demon who adored and loved women, Zhu Bajie (played by Duo Wang in demon shape and Yang Yiwei in human shape). And lastly the water demon Sha Wujing (Mengke Bateer).