Journey to the West was such a great film! It was one of my favorite foreign films I have seen. I really thought it was super strange, but I have to give the producers/ directors credit because it really was so bizarre in a unique way; I had not seen anything like it! I thought that the actors were also very talented, even the extras, and sometimes that isn't always the case in action movies because I often find that when extras try to act scared, it is obvious they are acting. It was probably extra hard to act in this film as well, since the actors had to initially react and be afraid of a creature that hadn't been put into the frame yet (since the beasts were only computer graphics). I really do not know anything about computer graphics or digital design, but from my view, this aspect of the film was really well done. I didn't really find any part to look "fake", and of it even came close to that, it was more funny than noticeably fake. This is also probably the most comical foreign film I have ever watched; many others I have seen are not, so this was a nice break from all the dramatic and serious films I am used to watching Culturally, I thought that Journey to the West was very interesting, including the fact that demons are a part of the Chinese culture (or were at one time). Since these particular "demons" were not real neither in the film nor real life, whether the actors believe in them (for the sake of their culture) or not, it was a break from the other foreign films I've seen, to see a film centered around such fictitious beasts. Although I did my really understand what was going on for some of the film, my attention was definitely kept and never once was bored. My only complaint would be that it was very hard to understand and keep up with (at least in my opinion).
