The animation was colorful yet almost photo-real, and while most of the animation was seamless, there were a few scenes where they seemed to cut corners.
Plot summary
The story happens after over 2000 years when Nezha conquered the Dragon King in the novel Fengshen Yanyi. A normal young deliveryman Li Yunxiang, though coming from the slum area, is living a satisfying life and enjoying motor racing at his spare time. But when the arrogant wealthy son of Boss De(the Dragon King) beats him down, takes away his beloved motor, and even wounds his innocent orphan sister, his deep anger turns into a blast of Truth Fire. The true identity-Nezha, is revealed. Nezha, the God of Rebel, violent and egocentric, empowers Yunxiang, but the newly obtained uncontrollable power brings new harm to Yunxiang's family and friends. Meanwhile Nezha's old enemies are seeking revenges too. Facing the twist of fate, Yunxiang has to find out his own way to become a true hero.
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Beautifully animated asian superhero fantasy with some awesome action scenes; but the story and dialog did not really work for me :-(
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The story is good, the fights make me lazy, the graphic is beautiful, charismatic characters, there was a lack of humor, it was very serious and surly, the fights endless, but a tasty design ...
The story inspired by Chinese mythology was fine, but the animation was pretty bad
This has a typical hero journey story: simple young man with a big heart learns he has superpowers and then has to protect his friends from the baddies. I liked that it got inspiration from Chinese mythology, even though I have to say that there was a bit to get lost in translation for people not familiar with it.
Now, the animation looks like a big computer game cut scene. Whoever praised the animation of this film is either blind or a shill. Technically it was quite OK, though, capturing the rhythm of the story and the vision of the director, it just looked unrefined.
Bottom line: there is not much to learn from this film, but it was entertaining enough.