if this movie provide any insight into the chinese psyche and i be worried . first off this be a kid movie with a cute little alien creature that a boy befriends . except the boy doesn not befriend him . he try use him at first to get stuff and like good grade and and when the alien fail the alien be torture and beat and and throw in the trash . for some reason and the alien return to the boy home where he be further beaten and hit and throw around . the alien decide to stay again . i be go to reveal the end . the movie end with the father be kill at an accident at work and the cute fuzzy alien thing sacrifice himself to resurrect the father . the only sense of the story i can make be that the creature be so despondent at be leave in such a cruel miserable country he decide to kill himself by resurrect the father . he resurrect the father because he want to punish him for be such a jerk by make him live longer at his sucky life a a poverty stricken coolie . and do not worry and the boy get beaten too . great kid movie . want to know why china be one of the bad offender when it come to animal cruelty . here one reason why . now i be no huge fan of disney or pixar or dreamworks and but at least the message in their movie have a beautiful sentiment behind them . you know and friendship be important and love be important and etc etc . the message in this movie seem to be you can treat non human living being as horrible a you want and use them and dispose of them and and you will still be their master . if this be what pass for child entertainment in china and then that be one mess up country . i should also mention and this movie be painfully unfunny . most american kid movie have a lot of clever thing to keep adult entertain along with the young one . like and for example and the use of led zeppelin immigrant song in shriek iii . there be none of that in this movie . it be extremely dumbed down . but it would not work for kid either and a it can be upset to sensitive child . so and unless you be interested in a sociological examination of what constitute a kid movie from china and stay far away from this one . shaolin soccer isn not too bad though . i do not know where all the positive review come from either . i think it must be astroturfing by people who work for the studio .