![]() The fact of his fate being unsatisfactory may be intentional given the context of our parting from him. I do wish we'd learned more of the fate of the king as his last depiction seems unsatisfactory, but this hardly bothers me until in deep retrospect. I agree however that Wu Kong, as stubborn as he is, could have learned a more tangible lesson by the end of the film or at least made an explicit acknowledgement of the change he had undergone. It is true that character development is limited in this installment, but this may to some degree be due to working within constraints of the source material. ![]() ![]() Moments of levity inserted liven-up and make each character endearing in a way the first film simply annoyed with, and allowed us to not only empathize with characters, but also humanize their relationships with each other and themselves. This campy, slap-stick fantasy comedy was an absolute joy to watch and re-watch. I was absolutely blown out of the water with the monumental improvements in special effects and costume design from the first film (minus the few seconds of our new take on fur-suit human monkeys).
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