Fails to deliver in any aspect of acting, script, casting, locations, production and costumes.
After the first season release of the Australian/New Zealand made classic Chinese Historical story: "New Legends of Monkey" I am left wondering if it was made by the "Home and Away" script writers and producers.
At times during the series I was left feeling like I was watching a Mighty Morphing Power Rangers reboot,
The acting is poor and often cringeworthy. The plots are thin and hollow. The comedy aspect is non existent. The action is about as believable as a Steven Segal fight scene. The casting is woeful and amateurish.
To compare this series to the Japanese Nippon TV classic, the recent Donnie Yen movie or even the Steven Chow interpretations of this story is a far stretch of the imagination. Badly scripted and badly acted. I doubt this series can get any worse than it is.
If people are expecting a similarity with the actual story of "The Monkey King" they will be sadly mistaken. This series butchers all the canon laws of the story and leaves the viewer with a bad taste. If Disney tried to remake Monkey in the 80's it would probably have been better than this.
Having said all that I do recognise the series is made targeted to a "new" teen audience, but I think they overdid it trying too hard and thereby destroying any comical or spiritual possibilities that could have evolved within the show.
Some episodes drag on with useless dialogue that inspires unplugging the TV forever.
This series feels like it was invented at a boardroom by Corporate clowns using a ratings formula and not by talented creative writers looking to add to the Monkey Story legacy. Sterile and unfunny at best. Not a good representation of Australian/Kiwi TV at all.
No mention in the entire first season of the Monkey king name "Sun WuKong" shows this series has all the relevance to the MONKEY story as an episode of CSi or neighbours, Poor at it's best times, watching this show is painful for those who know and love the immortal story of the Great Sage Equal of Heaven. I gave it a 2/10 just for effort, but that is being generous.
After the first season release of the Australian/New Zealand made classic Chinese Historical story: "New Legends of Monkey" I am left wondering if it was made by the "Home and Away" script writers and producers.
At times during the series I was left feeling like I was watching a Mighty Morphing Power Rangers reboot,
The acting is poor and often cringeworthy. The plots are thin and hollow. The comedy aspect is non existent. The action is about as believable as a Steven Segal fight scene. The casting is woeful and amateurish.
To compare this series to the Japanese Nippon TV classic, the recent Donnie Yen movie or even the Steven Chow interpretations of this story is a far stretch of the imagination. Badly scripted and badly acted. I doubt this series can get any worse than it is.
If people are expecting a similarity with the actual story of "The Monkey King" they will be sadly mistaken. This series butchers all the canon laws of the story and leaves the viewer with a bad taste. If Disney tried to remake Monkey in the 80's it would probably have been better than this.
Having said all that I do recognise the series is made targeted to a "new" teen audience, but I think they overdid it trying too hard and thereby destroying any comical or spiritual possibilities that could have evolved within the show.
Some episodes drag on with useless dialogue that inspires unplugging the TV forever.
This series feels like it was invented at a boardroom by Corporate clowns using a ratings formula and not by talented creative writers looking to add to the Monkey Story legacy. Sterile and unfunny at best. Not a good representation of Australian/Kiwi TV at all.
No mention in the entire first season of the Monkey king name "Sun WuKong" shows this series has all the relevance to the MONKEY story as an episode of CSi or neighbours, Poor at it's best times, watching this show is painful for those who know and love the immortal story of the Great Sage Equal of Heaven. I gave it a 2/10 just for effort, but that is being generous.