2023 · animation · fantasy · adventure
The Monkey King
Directed by Anthony Stacchi1h 32m2023
A stick-wielding monkey teams with a young girl on an epic quest for immortality, battling demons, dragons, gods — and his own ego — along the way.
Our read: The Monkey King (2023) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · fantasy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
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