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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, China
Runtime: 113
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Mandarin
Director: Rob Minkoff
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Taglines:

The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.

The battle for eternity is the fantasy of a lifetime. (Canadian poster)

Writing by: John Fusco - (written by)

Produced by: Nai Liang Chi - line producer
Raffaella De Laurentiis - executive producer
Scott Fischer - co-producer
Hester Hargett - line producer
Ryan Kavanaugh - executive producer
David U. Lee - co-executive producer
Philip Lee - associate producer
Jason C. Lin - co-executive producer
Michael Paseornek - executive producer
Casey Silver - producer
Solon So - co-executive producer
Lynwood Spinks - executive producer
Mathew Tang - line producer
Zhongjun Wang - executive producer
Woo-ping Yuen - executive producer

Cast: Jet Li - The Monkey King / The Silent Monk
Michael Angarano - Jason Tripitikas
Jackie Chan - Lu Yan / Old Hop
Yifei Liu - Golden Sparrow / Chinatown Girl
Collin Chou - Jade Warlord
Juana Collignon - Southie Girl
Morgan Benoit - Lupo
Bingbing Li - Ni Chang
Jack Posobiec - Southie
Thomas McDonell - Young Southie
Zhi Ma Gui - Old Woman

Music: David Buckley
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Plot Outline: A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Plot: An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

Movie Quotes: Jason Tripitikas: I can't understand you.
Lu Yan: That's because you're not listening!

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Jackie Chan and Jet Li are credited together before the title. Jackie Chan's name is spelled out horizontally, but Jet Li's is spelled out vertically, and the same "J" is used for both.

Goofs: We know about 8 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jason refers to the Monkey King's staff as a "bo staff." However, the "bo staff" is a Japanese, not Chinese, name for such a weapon.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Based on the Chinese epic story 'Journey to the West', one of the four great classic novels of Chinese Literature. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legends around the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzhuang's pilgrimage to India during the Tang dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Many programs have been based on this tale, such as television show "Saiyûki" (1978), and anime series "Dragon Ball Z" (1989/I) holds a few loose facts from the same story.
The characters are mostly taken from Chinese mythology and adventure pulps. Lu Yan is a famous Taoist Saint (He's better known as Iron-crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals). The Jade Emperor is the ruler of the Heavens in Chinese myth. The Monkey King is from a 16th Century fantasy epic by Wu Cheng En. Golden Sparrow was the name of the character played by Cheng Pei Pei in a number of Shaw Bros films like Da zui xia (1966). The White Haired Demoness is the anti-heroine of a pulp novel by Liang Yusheng (filmed twice) with the same title.
This movie marks the very first collaboration between martial arts masters Jet Li and Jackie Chan.