orfredericks Tang Sanzang, is a careful and loving buddhist monk who is also a demon hunter. Instead of using violence to defeat and capture the demons he uses nursery rhymes to try and defeat them. Furthermore, during his journey he must fight 3 demons in order to protect the village from the demon beings. However, there are other demon hunters that are not like him and do not see the good in the demons or try to save them, instead they capture the demons for ransom or fame. During Tang Sanzang travels he meets Miss Duan who falls in love with him and save s him repeatedly throughout the movie. Tang Sanzang must face the trial of love, good, and bad, and ultimately his own perseverance. Tang Sanzang, unlike all of the other demon hunters, does not use violence to defeat any of the monsters and is a true honest hero. I do wonder why the journey to kill and destroy demons had to be in the westerly direction and not in the east, north, or south. Like does the west have a negative connotation in both the U.S and China? I know that there is the wicked witch of the west in the wizard of Oz and Dorothy and the others must defeat her. Furthermore, I do not think that there is a difference in the United States and China for the use of the west as a negative connotation in their movies context. The film Journey to the west is very high quality and used CGI effects for production so their effects and screenplay is very evidently similar to the U.S.. I believe this happens because the U.S. and China are very developed countries and have the money to make movies look really good, not saying the other countries without the supplements of money could not make movies with high quality but it is definitely much appreciated.

japrice-26876 This film is jam packed with tons of Stephen Chow's comedic style. It has action, love, and some scenes on the meaning of life. There also some descriptions on ancient Chinese symbols. It begins with this supposed demon hunter trying to warn a village that the creature they just killed was not the demon they thought(a giant stingray). Instead, the real demon was a large man eating fish. They eventually get the fish out of the water and the demon hunter(Xuan Zang) attempts to rid the demon of evil and only leave good behind through his book of nursery rhymes. They were to no avail and he started to get beaten up by the fish until a real women demon hunter came about and fought the demon, killing it. The novice demon catcher began to question his abilities as a demon hunter and decided to go to get some food from an infamous restaurant. It turned out the restaurant was run by a demon who tricked the newcomers into being killed and fed to the next who are foolish enough to enter. However, the novice demon fighter suspects something wrong with everything and calls out the demon, but as he calls him out the women demon hunter from the previous fight appears and starts to fight the demon with her magic rings. They walk back to town and she tries to kiss him but he has vowed to only kiss a woman of great love. She keeps on following him trying to get him to like her in return and marry her, but he does not give in. The demon that the women demon hunter had fought before did not actually die and has been on the loose. The novice demon hunter decides to seek help from the monkey king who has been enslaved by buddha for the past 500 years. The monkey king tricks him into freeing him and begins to reign terror killing demon hunters and the women demon hunter who until her death the novice demon hunter does not show feelings of love for. He eventually reaches enlightenment and kills the monkey king with his powers

Cameron Crawford I liked the Buddhism aspects of this movie, it made it enjoyable to watch from a cultural aspect. The plot of the movie was pretty bland, generally ranging from fighting the next demon. The CGI demons in the movie were made fairly badly, but I did enjoy how they came from the bad behavior of those humans. The main character of the movie was the most interesting luckily, so that made this movie enjoyable to watch. He was trying to cleanse the demons rather than kill and capture them. I liked how he used a more peaceful, Buddhist like path to cleanse them through the 300 Nursery Rhymes. The love interest in this movie was fairly boring in my opinion and felt very forced and unnecessary. This movie at times was trying too hard to be funny, which made it just seem ridiculous and not needed. (ie: the fat lady jumping on the board) Overall I found this movie to be fairly enjoyable from a cultural perspective, but I did not enjoy it from a comedy perspective.

amai2739 I'm a fan of Stephen Chow's work, I've always liked his vision for cinema, and also his taste in comedy, like Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu Hustle. To me, his Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons was a very unique take on the Chinese folktale that worked great for me and I loved it. A thoroughly entertaining fantasy, action, comedy movie. All the actors gave a solid performance, the set pieces were also astounding, and the story was clever. I honestly would've liked if Stephen Chow could've had a role in this as he did for A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora's Box & A Chinese Odyssey Part 2: Cinderella, where he plays the Monkey King.