Ju she chuang nu xiao (2022) User Reviews

A bland slithering movie experience...

[paul_haakonsen · 5/10 · 28 July 2023]

Initially I thought 'great, probably just another questionable Chinese creature feature' when I stumbled upon this 2022 movie titled "Ju She Chuang Nu Xiao" (aka "Rising Boas in a Girl's School"). But given my love of the Asian cinema and a life-long love of creature features, of course I had to watch what writer Xie Wen Jun had to offer.

Then there was the English title, I mean "Rising Boas in a Girl's School", well that just sounds like some kind of sleazy, lewd movie, now doesn't it? Was this seriously what they went with here? I hope it was meant as spoof and a joke.

The storyline in "Ju She Chuang Nu Xiao" is pretty straight forward, if actually not generic for a creature feature about deadly snakes. But it was actually adequately entertaining, so directors Xie Wen Jun and Guo Yu Long actually managed to deliver something worthwhile here.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. But the actors and actresses they had cast for the various characters and roles were doing good jobs.

Visually then I will say that "Ju She Chuang Nu Xiao" was actually okay. The special effects and CGI animated snakes were looking adequate, for the most parts. And that is rather important for a creature feature such as this. I just didn't really dig the fact that the snakes were able to screech and shriek.

"Ju She Chuang Nu Xiao" is worth a single viewing, but the movie's script and storyline just doesn't have the contents for more than just that first and only viewing.

My rating of "Ju She Chuang Nu Xiao" lands on a bland five out of ten stars.

Snakes at a School for Flight Attendants

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 5 August 2023]

This strangely titled film begins in a remote part of China where some sleazy corporate executives have devised a plan to feed various kinds of snakes a special new formula to stimulate growth in order to have more material once they skin them to make items such as handbags and shoes. What they don't count on, however, is one particular snake to grow to an enormous size and wreak havoc in the lab and--along with numerous other snakes--escape into the wilderness toward a college where female flight attendants are being trained. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film managed to incorporate non-stop action and mediocre CGI to come up with what should have been a fairly entertaining movie experience. Where it failed, to a certain degree, was with some of the comedic elements, which simply weren't that funny. Likewise, other than a few of the main actors, it was difficult to identify most of the other characters because they were seldom addressed by name. In short, while this wasn't a bad movie necessarily, had more attention been devoted to the script, it could have been much better than it actually was, and I have rated it accordingly. Average.