it like someone take a fantasy type video game and put it in a blender and and the resulting scene mishmash be what we have to sit through . now let me go on record by say how much i love chinese fantasy film . from the fun and silly and to those focus on martial art and to the more dramatic and romantic typesit a genre i very much enjoy . film like a chinese odyssey represent pandora box and a chinese odyssey represent cinderella ( both of which be write and or or direct by jeffrey lau ) while the bride with white hair while butterfly and sword while green snake while a chinese ghost story while swordman ii while zu represent warrior from the magic mountain while crouch tiger and hidden dragon while and others . which be why i be look forward to a chinese tall story . one of the film character be the monkey king ( aka sun wukong ) and an extremely well know character in chinese mythology and first told in the story of the journey to the west and the epic adventure write about 500 year ago . ( the story of the monkey king and his disciple be also the focus of the chinese odyssey film and amongst many others ) . other familiar character that appear in the film be zhu wuneng ( the pig character ) and sha wujing . so how do it all go wrong . well and let take an example familiar to western audience . how about the robin hood mythology . a well know story from ye olden day . let say that our robin hood film star wesley snipe a robin hood and and haley joel osment a friar tuck . maid marian be none other than rosie perez . let give sir robin an uzi as well and because you never know when you might have to waste the sheriff of nottingham . they might need rocket pack also and and while be at it and give them a tactical nuclear weapon because that sure could come in handy . if you think this sound like a really neat retelling of the robin hood tale and then a chinese tall story be the movie for you . a i indicate above and this movie be a jumbled mess . in the first 30 minute and we be introduce not only to sun wukong and zhu wuneng and and sha wujing and but also to the monk tripitaka ( who be actually the main protagonist ) and kidnap child and a millennium bug demon ( which shoot laser beam ) and an underground tree god and a lizard imp tribe and an angelic girl in an intergalactic egg and the lord chancellor tortoise and a sea dragon king and a ever morph magic golden staff and a chatterbox imp girl and wormhole in space and and the four heavenly knight . all this wouldn not be too bad the tale and myth pass down over the year certainly do have all sort of fantastical element . but i guarantee you the chinese mythology do not include much of the stuff we get subject to in the last half of the film . ( helpful advice to the filmmaker represent just because your computer effect guy can come up with cool look spaceship and depiction of intergalactic war and do not mean they should ) . you know your chinese mythology movie be on the wrong track when the director ask ( and i be not make this upit a direct quote from the commentary ) i ask the composer whether or not we can have a more rock and roll type music when she transform into some kind of android like thing . be there a story hidden in here somewhere . yes . yes and there be . most of the adventure follow tripitaka ( play by nicholas tsegen x cop and time and tide and my schoolmate the barbarian ) and meiyan and the lizard imp girl ( play by charlene choi and a computer ) . choi be the best thing go in this film . you may know her a half of the canto pop group twin and from other film such a the twin effect ( a fun flick ) and just one look ( a surprisingly good drama or romance or comedy ) . poor choi and be a lizard imp and all and be hardly recognizable with her wart and snag out teeth and doughy nose and and hunch back . that be until the computer get a hold of and beautify her and which somehow make it bad . tse be passable and but all of the support actor be abysmal . a couple of recognizable face in bit part be waste . at one point i be debate with myself if a chinese tall story be a spoof . i be almost able to convince myself that it be when the intergalactic egg girl ( play by a very pretty fan bing bing ) get out and light up a marlboro ( . ) while talk with tripitaka who be practice martial art dress in a spider man costume ( . ) . but it be not a spoof . of course there be the typical hong kong silliness and but the movie take itself seriously enough and with enough scene of romance and pathos ( score with a sledghammering of violin and evocative cello ) and rouse action and adventure . you might think that you could watch this on a netflix rental and it wouldn not cost you anything . ( oh and but it will cost you and all right ) . be there anything good to say . sure . the color be vibrant ( they be the best thing about this movie ) . and the filmmaker certainly be try very hard . too bad all that effort go into a movie that be not much more than a bad video game .