But Monkey King challenges and attacks him. As soon as he has it, the Dragon King reneges on his deal and prepares to drown the world in a mega-storm While preparing his storm the dragon king gets fatter while becoming bigger. When Monkey King remains aloof and boisterous, Lin outwits him and delivers the staff to the Dragon King. Monkey King and Lin flee the Heavens, and in a following heart-to-heart, Lin admits that she longs to make a difference in the world and tries to encourage Monkey King to do the same. Monkey King also demonstrates that despite his rude behavior, he cares about her too. Although Lin has several chances to steal the staff, she repeatedly returns to help Monkey King.
Wangmu catches them in the act and attacks them, but Monkey King succeeds in consuming the potion, thus becoming fully immortal. He and Lin infiltrate the Jade Palace's pharmacy to create a sample of the elixir. The Dragon King subtly guides Monkey King and Lin to a peach tree laced with an intoxicating poison, but accidentally ends up eating one himself and running off.Īfter realizing that the peaches are fake, Monkey King learns from the book that Wangmu, the divine Queen Mother, brews an immortality elixir for the gods.
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He steals Yama's Book of Everlasting Life and learns that he must eat a peach from the Orchard of Everlasting Life to gain full immortality. With Lin's help, Monkey King succeeds in erasing his name, but is only made ageless. King Yama, the ruler and chief judge of Hell, recognizes them as outsiders and fights them.
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The duo reaches a graveyard, where Monkey King opens a portal to Hell to get to the Archive of Souls and strike his name off his Scroll of Life and Death, thus gaining immortality. Unknown to him, Lin is an agent of the Dragon King to help him reclaim the staff in return for saving her drought-stricken village. After fighting him, Monkey King leaves the village Lin tags along, even though he treats her condescendingly. The Dragon King emerges from the nearby sea during the victory celebration to reclaim his prized weapon. With the endorsement of a girl named Lin, Monkey King defeats Red Girl, and Lin pledges herself as his assistant. Eventually, he comes to a village terrorized by the Red Girl. Then he crowns himself King of the Monkeys, but when the troop's elder cautions that his staff should only be used by the gods, the new Monkey King decides to kill 100 demons, thus gaining the right to enter the Heavens and become a god. With the staff in hand, Monkey returns to the demon's lair, defeats him, and rescues the cub. Communicating with the column, Monkey turns it into a staff and escapes.
To fetch a more suitable weapon, Monkey dives into the sea realm of the Dragon King, where he finds the latter gloating over a glowing column which he means to use to eradicate all life on the world's surface. After many years, when he deems himself ready, he confronts the demon, but his training proves ineffective, and another cub is snatched. To prove his worth to the troop, he trains to fight the demon. One of his escapades causes a feared demon to pounce from his mountain lair and grab one of the troop's cubs for food as a result, Monkey is banished. Monkey finds a troop of other monkeys, but his unruly nature keeps him from fitting in. Just as the Emperor gives the order to eliminate the cub, Buddha appears before him and tells him to let him find his purpose. One night, a monkey is born from a stone atop a tall mountain and disturbs the Jade Emperor. The film received mixed reviews from critics. The Monkey King was selected as the closing film at the 22nd New York Asian Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on J, and was released worldwide on August 18, 2023, by Netflix. Yang, voicing over the role of the titular trickster, with Bowen Yang, Jo Koy, BD Wong, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, and Stephanie Hsu in supporting roles. It is a prequel to the classic Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West.
The Monkey King is a 2023 computer-animated fantasy action comedy film directed by Anthony Stacchi.
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