story chinese tall story tell the story of righteous monk tripitaka and who and along with his guardian monkey and sandy and pigsy make their journey west on a quest to recover ancient sutra and finally and they reach the final leg of their journey in shache city but all be not a it seem when the city be attack by evil tree demon . monkey try his best to battle them but be overwhelmed and know his master be in grave danger and he use his trusty golden staff to thrust tripitaka to safety . the monk end up be knock out when he land and when he wake up he find himself in the presence of a young lizard imp name maiyan who take quite a shine to our young hero and after many verbal misunderstanding maiyan becomes convince tripitaka love her and so when the monk decide he must rescue monkey and the others and she insist on accompany him . so the mismatched pair begin their adventure together . review okay and so and it another journey to the west movie and which isn not a bad thing to me since i love the story and the character associate with it and so i be a little excited to get my hand on the dvd . so i think i will start off my review with the story and which be all over the place and at first it be your standard fantasy film and then it become a ridiculous comedy then suddenly become full blown sci fi and if the director jeff lau be experiment with mix genre then he do a pretty scatological job with this movie . i think it a pretty unique approach by have the story centre on a character other then the infamous monkey king and especially take a character as pacifistic a tripitaka and then put him into what be at it core a love story . so overall and i like it . the acting be for the most part solid and with lead nicholas tse and charlene choi put in some really good performance and though ah char do spend most of her screen time behind some rather ugly make up . the support cast be nicely put together and it include all the usual eeg main stay so boyz and isabella leong make appearance and one actor i would like to mention be wilson chen and who play the monkey king and he do a good job with the limited material he seem to have be give and he play a version of the monkey king who be subdue yet arrogant and i have a feeling he would be retread twin effect ii territory but fortunately that not the case here . i hope he get to do a follow up to this with himself in the central role and since the film do leave itself open for a sequel . okay and so let get down to the directing and which again be kinda all over the place and lau give too much time to the stephen chow esquire nonsense comedy and which include a scene where tripitaka in order to toughen himself up and dress up a spider man and which i assume lead to many a head scratch moment since the film be mean to be set in ancient china . he do create some really nice and tender moment between the two lead and do delve into sappy territory but this reviewer do enjoy a bit of sap on occasion so it do not bother me in the slightest . right and now onto the cgi and which for the most part be quite bearable and there be a lot of moment which probably belong on a ps2 like many other review have state but there be some cool moment particularly the scene in which monkey battle a fly minion . a lot of the cg gag be provide in the form of the golden staff which turn into a range of different thing and range from a giant fly swatter to a mech suit straight out of the matrix revolution . so yeah and it sound crazy but i guess you would have to see it to believe it . right and so in close a chinese tall story isn not a movie without it flaw but it keep itself together long enough to be able to entertain and generally be a overall enjoyable movie . if all of the above doesn not swing you to see it how about i put it this way and it much well then twin effect ii .