The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 372 DreamWorks Becomes the Winner Again

"what--"

"Monkey King!!"

"Mom, Monkey King!"

"Monkey King! Monkey King!"

Cheng Ruijun's heart beat faster just because of the scene of Monkey King breaking free from the magic seal, wearing a chain armor with phoenix wings on his body, and transforming into Monkey King, and the exciting electronic music. When his blood was boiling, the screams of children in the theater interrupted him Excited emotions.

Of course, the biggest source of screams came from around me. My son, who had just entered the first grade of elementary school, had already jumped off his seat, jumping up and down, shouting and screaming excitedly.

Cheng Ruijun exchanged glances with his wife, who was seated across the seat, and both smiled wryly. Today's movie-watching experience is quite new.

The Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion, and the Spring Festival is also a time for the whole family to watch movies. Cheng Ruijun and his wife were movie lovers before they had children, and they often went to the cinema to watch movies.

Since having a child, I have less time to go to the theater to enjoy the world of two people. In the past few years, I have been able to spare time to watch movies during the Spring Festival, and they are basically animated movies for sub-suppliers.

After all, it is not easy to leave the child behind and stay at home.

And many movies are not suitable for children to watch. For example, last year's "Operation Mekong" was not suitable for children to watch, so it took him a while to come to the theater alone to watch this well-received military action movie.

"Your Name," which broke records at the summer box office last year, is also an animated film, but after reading online reviews, Cheng Ruijun found that it was about youthful love, and it was still not suitable for his six-year-old son.

Ever since they saw reviews online that DreamWorks' second animated film "The Return of the Great Sage" was an animation for all ages, the two bought tickets early and planned to watch it with their son during the Chinese New Year.

However, compared to when they watched other animated movies with their children, only the children were excited, while the adults felt bored. This "The Return of the Great Sage" has firmly grasped Cheng Ruijun's attention from the beginning.

If it weren't for some small questions raised by his son from time to time, he would be completely immersed in the plot of the movie.

Whether it is the narrative rhythm, the lines, the style of painting or the fighting, it can be said to be extremely smooth and there is no urine point.

Fighting against the heavenly soldiers and generals, fighting against the guarding mountain gods, fighting against the pig demon sent by the demon king to chase the monkey and the mountain demon led by him, the three action scenes are more thrilling and exciting.

Even if its identity as an animation theme is thrown away, it is definitely considered a very outstanding level in the movie.

And the plot of the subsequent trio meeting and exploring the "weird town" is even more weird, and the horror and weird atmosphere is quite vivid.

It even reminded Cheng Ruijun of such strange aspirations as Liaozhai.

Of course, this plot not only frightened the adults, but the children in the theater were also frightened, and there was a lot of crying, which in a disguised way lightened the dark atmosphere created by the movie.

But when it came to the darkest moment when the Chaos Demon King appeared, the adults were more involved than the children, and they were even moved by the plot.

The repressed emotions of the adults seemed to be transmitted to the children in the theater. No matter whether they could understand or not, the children's loud cries and even questions and voices became much less, and the theater reached an unprecedented level of quietness.

It wasn't until the climax came, under the roar of the electric guitar that roared and whistled, Monkey King completed his transformation and the return of the Great Sage, the atmosphere of the entire theater was once again ignited.

And it burned a little too much.

Children do not know moderation and moderation.

However, although the entire movie-watching experience is constantly interrupted and becomes intermittent, it is still a good movie-watching experience.

At least the children enjoyed watching it very much. Although they may not be able to fully understand it like adults, they are generally quite satisfied.

Even the children who were frightened and cried in the middle became emotional later. Children themselves are emotionally coming and going quickly.

This kind of movie-watching experience that both adults and children have fun also makes up for the regret that the movie-watching process is frequently interrupted to a certain extent.

After all, this situation is unavoidable in any show with many children, and Cheng Ruijun has long been used to this unique way of watching movies.

"Yangyang, does it look good?" Cheng Ruijun and his wife asked while putting cotton clothes on their son when the lights came on.

The little man nodded frantically, and it seemed that the viewing experience was quite satisfying: "It's beautiful! Dad, Mom, let's watch it again!"

Cheng Ruijun nodded his son's little nose: "It's getting late, we can't stare at the screen for a long time, how about we watch another show tomorrow?"

However, there is a family of three like Cheng Ruijun who is quite satisfied with the movie-watching experience, and naturally there are audiences who are not satisfied with watching the movie.

And there are a lot of them.

Liu Hang passed through the chattering crowd, walked out of the theater, looked at the bustling corridor, and sighed.

He came to the theater alone to watch "The Return of the Great Sage", and like him, there were quite a few viewers who did not bring their children.

"The Return of the Great Sage" did not disappoint him, and it was worthy of word of mouth.

It’s just that the movie-watching experience is a bit poor. The previous movies of DreamWorks are basically not the kind of works suitable for children, even "Your Name" is not a movie for children.

Basically, the first wave of parents who brought their children to the cinema to watch "Your Name" expressed their feedback on the Internet that they were "deceived", and few people took their children to watch the movie because of the animation theme of the movie. up.

This is really the first time for Liu Hang to encounter this kind of situation where there are many children in the process of watching a movie. Several climax points of the movie are fragmented by the children's noise, crying, talking loudly and screaming.

Especially in the final transformation of the great sage, the darkness was suppressed to the extreme and released, paired with amazing electronic music, Liu Hang was interrupted by screams as soon as he got up.

He looked at the parents with their children in the hall, and gave up the idea of ​​buying another ticket for a second time.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is a so-called animated film with the label of "adults can watch it, and they will like to watch it", and it is indeed popular for many audiences with children. The long drought meets the rain.

Even Chen Jingxing somewhat underestimated the demand for these family-friendly movies, and the theaters were caught off guard.

"The theater should open a movie hall without children..." Liu Hang was churning with these thoughts that he knew were unreliable, and he made up his mind by the way: "Wait until the Spring Festival is over and the number of moviegoers decreases. Let’s do it again, um, first go online to find out what the music of the Great Sage’s transformation is, I don’t know if DreamWorks has released it..."

As the second full-length animation film of DreamWorks, "The Return of the Great Sage" has the reputation of Journey to the West IP and word-of-mouth reputation, and its share in the first row of films ranked fourth.

Second only to the three first-tier blockbusters "Journey to the West: The Demon", "Tang Detective II" and "Kung Fu Yoga", it ranks first among the second-tier movies and is higher than many live-action movies.

And "Journey to the West" and other three giants' film schedules are similar. It can be seen that the competition for this year's Spring Festival stalls is fierce.

However, after the first day of release, the word-of-mouth of "Tang Detective II" and "The Return of the Great Sage" stood out from other movies. Of course, the most praise was given to "The Return of the Great Sage".

"Tang Detective II" still continues the path of crime-solving comedy, and it has a larger scene and a larger layout than the first one, and it also expands the Tang Tan universe.

However, compared with the first solid script, the suspense and case-solving part has indeed weakened a lot, adding a lot of hilarious and comedic elements.

Therefore, many viewers expressed their disappointment for the first time, not only relative to the first movie, but also to DreamWorks.

Because "Tang Detective II" DreamWorks is the largest investment producer, although DreamWorks did not interfere with the actual filming, it is also considered by many viewers to be the work of DreamWorks.

And because of this recognition, I also have higher expectations for "Tang Detective II". The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Fortunately, the case idea of ​​"Tang Detective II" is "borrowed" from a certain classic horror movie, so it is still online in terms of the level of the case itself, and the parts of comedy, excitement and big scenes are not stretched. Generally speaking, it is a dwarf. Pull it up inside.

Among the live-action movies in the Spring Festival file, it is definitely the most outstanding one, especially with the backdrop of movies like "Kung Fu Yoga".

In today's Huaguo film market, even in a market with strong demand like the Spring Festival, word-of-mouth has an immediate impact on film schedules and box office trends.

The superior reputation and attendance of "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Tang Detective II" were quickly reflected in the film schedule and box office.

"The Return of the Great Sage" was 6800 million in the first day of junior high school, 8400 million in the second day of junior high school, and jumped to 1.18 million in the third day of junior high school. The cumulative box office of the Spring Festival stalls ranked third, second only to "Tang Detective II" and "Journey to the West: Fu Yao".

The box office forecast of "The Great Sage" by the ticketing software has increased from the original 8 million to 13 billion.

Because it is also the IP of Journey to the West, the word-of-mouth collapse of "Journey to the West" with the blessing of a famous director + superstar is no less than that of "Kung Fu Yoga", and soon opened up the gap with "Tang Detective II".

Among works that are also IPs of Journey to the West, "Volking the Demon" was evaluated by many audiences as inferior to the animated film "The Great Sage", and the blow to it was too great.

Even Luo Chen, who played the role of Tang Seng in "Journey to the West", called Chen Jingxing and complained a lot. This may become Luo Chen's worst Waterloo incident in many years.

Although the Spring Festival file is far from over, both the media and netizens who care about movie box office can already conclude that the winners of this Spring Festival file are basically "Tang Detective II" and "The Great Sage".

"The strongest Spring Festival file in history" broke through again.

People began to marvel at the fact that DreamWorks' second animation feature-length would once again break the domestic animation box office record, raising the theme of animated movies to the point where it was close to mainstream movies by its own efforts.

I was also shocked by the box office results that DreamWorks once again created.

After all, "Tang Detective II", which topped the box office during the Spring Festival, can also be regarded as a DreamWorks movie.

Last year, "The Mekong" still had its rival "The Mermaid" fighting all the way. This year, an animated film paired with a suspenseful comedy swept the Spring Festival.

No matter how you look at it, how do you feel that DreamWorks' brilliant achievements last year show no sign of falling back this year?

(End of this chapter)