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Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
An adventurous journey through the desert as a monk and his disciples battle fantastic creatures and learn to work together.
22 March 1985, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China
21 May 1991, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
5 October 1979, Nanping, Fujian, China
13 February 1988, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
16 April 1996, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China
3 May 1984, Haerbin, Heilongjiang, China
6 November 1990, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
12 January 1982, Ji'an, Jilin, China
February 08, 2017
This time round, though, there's more high-spirited whimsy than laugh-out-loud humour.
February 01, 2017
There is a wild and joyous abandon to the film-making that calls to mind Tsui's early work, Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain.
February 02, 2017
A rare character-driven big-budget action-adventure - the kind of thing Americans might love if they knew it existed.
April 04, 2017
Mildly entertaining with dazzling visual spectacle, but more silly, exhausting and outrageous rather than fun or funny.
February 03, 2017
A madcap success on its own bizarre terms and an informative distillation of each auteur's sensibility.
March 02, 2017
impressive effects, feeble laughs, incoherent story
February 02, 2017
All spectacle and little substance, a stop-gap title produced perhaps to keep the brand going while the producers search for a way to bring the series forward.
February 06, 2017
Blockbuster sequel to Stephen Chow's Conquering the Demons has more action than comedy.
February 03, 2017
If anything, Demons Strike Back is an even zanier and more kid-friendly affair than the Chow original. Yet without Chow's unique strain of silliness, it also feels louder and more antic while covering less ground.
January 29, 2017
While [the film] is never less than watchable, it's hard to shake the impression that Tsui [Hark] has partly ditched - or maybe failed to replicate - [Stephen] Chow's irreverent sense of humour.
