Monkey King fails and is imprisoned in a mountain. Wanting to give Monkey King another chance, Lin is allowed to act as Buddha's voice and challenges Monkey King to leap off Buddha's hand to win rulership over Heaven, or else suffer a period of penance. Realizing her mistake, Lin enables Monkey King to beat the Dragon King, but Monkey King becomes power-drunk, and Buddha prepares to intervene. The Dragon King reneges on his deal and prepares to drown the world in a mega-storm, but Monkey King challenges and attacks him. When Monkey King remains aloof and boisterous, Lin outwits him and delivers the staff to the Dragon King. Monkey King and Lin flee the Heavens, and in a following heart-to-heart, Lin admits that she longs to make a difference in the world and tries encouraging Monkey King to do the same. Although Lin has several chances to steal the staff, she repeatedly returns to help Monkey King, who also demonstrates that despite his rude behavior, he cares about her too. Wangmu catches them in the act, but Monkey King consumes the potion, thus becoming fully immortal. He and Lin infiltrate the Jade Palace's pharmacy to create a sample of the elixir. The Dragon King subtly guides Monkey King and Lin to a peach tree laced with an intoxicating poison, but ends up getting fed one himself, foiling the plan.Īfter realizing the peaches are fake, Monkey King learns from the book that Wangmu, the divine Queen Mother, brews an immortality elixir for the gods. He steals Yama's Book of Everlasting Life and learns he must eat a peach from the Orchard of Everlasting Life to gain full immortality. Monkey King succeeds in erasing his name, but is only made ageless. King Yama, the ruler and chief judge of Hell, recognizes them as outsiders and fights them. In a graveyard, Monkey King opens a portal to Hell to get to the Archive of Souls and strike his name off his Scroll of Life and Death, thus gaining immortality. Unknown to him, Lin is helping the Dragon King reclaim the staff in return for saving her drought-stricken village. After fighting him, Monkey King leaves the village Lin, pledging herself as his assistant, tags along, even though he treats her condescendingly. 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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