It is undeniable that "Monster Hunt" has a pertinent visual perception and can amuse the audience. Its combination of CG animation production of demons and real-life interpretation presents an ancient Chinese world where realistic people and demons coexist. In the production, Xu Chengyi obviously draws on his own experience in role-building in DreamWorks, and the ignorant and pleasant monsters subvert the previous Chinese people's fixed positioning of the monster image, just like the Minions in "Despicable Me", the movie chooses to be based on Mengwei cut in to please the audience with its excellent production. This is a method that Hollywood has tried and tested in recent years, but it is obviously insufficient in character innovation. Such a monster will remind people of Xu Chengyi's "Shrek 3" and "Shrek 3" that also participated in the production. Reference to "How to Train Your Dragon".
The plot is so young that it can only be a children's movie suitable for all ages. This is destined to be impossible for the movie to have such a colorful fantasy martial arts. Xu Chengyi, who is also a Hong Kong director and transformed into DreamWorks, is no longer there. It may be like Tsui Hark's heroic self-contained martial arts, but even as a children's film, the solidified template routine, like the fusion of songs and dances commonly used by Disney in the past, gives people a sense of frequent appearances. In the play, for example, the old stalk of grandma pretending to be crazy and selling stupid, holding a rusty sword to pass on to the male protagonist, is also familiar to everyone in Zhou Xingchi's "Nine Pins of Sesame Official". And so on, it is not difficult to see from Xu Chengyi's past "Shrek 3" that he is a director who can reasonably integrate classics, but he does not have much ability to innovate himself.
"Monster Hunt" could have been a grand story. Even if the film is divided into three parts, it would be good to maintain a complete degree of completion, but Xu Chengyi made a stupid decision even though he was ashamed to refuse, and the whole plot The structure is anticlimactic. Although the turning point can have the meaning of being a demon and a love, and everyone is not good, it is not enough to justify this story. The villain who seizes power in the demon world and hunts down the little demon king has never even met. The male protagonist's life experience The story is even more unclear. After burying a lot of clues, it is a happy ending of a thousand-year-old stalk, but in the end, there is not even an interesting Easter egg left at the last moment, which makes the The lack of work completion is so apparent.
As a martial arts film "Monster Hunt" is very young, but as a children's film at least the film has not really treated all the audience as children, a domestic conscience that can be "unfinished" is still worthy of praise.
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