Monster Hunt 2

*ing: Tony Leung, Bai Baihe, Jing Boran, Li Yuchun, Tony Yang

Rated: 5/10

The exams have just finished so this children’s adventure film is rightly timed, even though a tad underrated as far as animated-human sagas go.

The monster, a six-limbed cute puppy which resembles a rounded carrot with big watery eyes and an impish look, is as cute as his human parents who come with high family hang-ups which compel then to go for a hunt of their adopted monster child whom they had given up apparently for its own benefit.

There is a lot of mumbo jumbo in this dubbed Chinese film but the bigness of anything Chinese comes across in its landscape, aerial shots of green cliffs and milky rivers through which the story passes.

The film is a neither here nor there children’s film which does not flesh out on anything in particular — be it the plot, the story, the dialogues, the action or the humour. And yet, for a lean week, everything fits into each other in this low-brow monster hunt film.

Easy on the eyes and the mind for a lean mean week!

Source: The Pioneer, 13 April, 2018