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- 2016
- TV-PG
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 57 m
- 2016
- TV-PG
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 57 m
- 2016
- TV-PG
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 57 m
- 2016
- TV-PG
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 57 m
Monster Hunt
53
4.9
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
53
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
53
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
He (Hui) does not achieve the surreal grandeur of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, but he has enough imagination and talent to engage his audience on its own level.
The plot is even more nonsensical than it sounds, but the monsters’ high-energy antics and the humans’ martial-arts skills make for a delightfully bizarre adventure romp.
Monster Hunt is not a movie that aims for narrative dexterity, or subtlety, or grace. It’s a blunt, bloated object, designed to bludgeon us with silly action and broad humor.
The film is far from perfect, but it’s certainly ambitious, often entertaining and, compared to the feeble competition from new American films of the moment, a singing, dancing, stomping and chomping “Citizen Kane.”
Some of this recalls Stephen Chow’s “Journey to the West,” minus the brilliance.
While individual sequences are genuinely entertaining, Monster Hunt remains considerably less than the sum of its many parts.
Monster Hunt has visual appeal to spare, but the allure ends there.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.9
29% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
4.9
29% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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Awards
Hong Kong Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Hundred Flowers Awards
• 5 Nominations
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 4 Nominations
