Da xue guai

This is a B movie, the kind many of us used to watch Saturday afternoons/evenings. It's not a bad movie, it's just basic, I suppose it had to be since the running time is 1 hour and 15 minutes not including end credits. It has the usual we need the broken hero to save his ex-girlfriend, the overweight comic relief, the beautiful damsel in distress and the evil dude. The synopsis doesn't clearly state what's going on, as I said our hero is convinced to help but not until he hears his ex (who he is still pining for) is in trouble. They then have a heavily armed group to find this damsel in distress and get into trouble a couple of times, then get taken in by an ancient tribe that worship the titular snow monster. Then the bad guys show up, surprise I'm not the nice guy you thought I was. And then there are a few short action scenes for the finale.

The CGI is adequate for a movie like this, and the snow monster is some sort of hugongous combination of cat and goat. The action scenes are also adequate. Think a Chinese Sy-Fy/Asylum/FulllMoon production. And it did remind me of the movie 'Mojin' in many parts, especially the three main characters. It's fine if you want to waste an hour or so, but don't expect much, it's fun but forgettable.

This is a fun Monster Adventure movie. That's what it is and it excels at it. This was a great ride and way more fun than I figured when I picked it up. If you are a fan of monster movies then you will love this. The main monster is awesome and they show you alot of him and you wish he still had more screen time. It has a group of adventurers who stumble on an area of mountain where there are lots of reasons for creatures to crop up. The story is a good one and has a mix of mystical mountain mythology and adventuring with characters that have back stories and that you care about. It has a sort of timeless feel, and made me feel like I did when I watched old monster movies for the very first with excitement and joy. I want a sequel so please continue the series!

No pun intended - and bats are not the only ... well monsters in this. Actually the Snow Monster may be the biggest thing the movie has to show you (yes I know another pun). Try to enjoy this and the mayhem it unleashes! It can be fun - though we have seen better monster (dare I say kaiju?) movies.

There are also many other monsters and the CGI is decent enough - at least that's how I felt. But while you may expect certain monsters in caves, you would not expect ... shark monsters where they pop up (again sorry for the pun) ... actually thinking about it, this may have too many different things. Well it will be up to you, if this is overload or it just barely works as it is ... just have fun with it.

These Chinese sci-fi films get crazier and crazier, and sometimes can be done quite well. This is not one of them. Done well, that is. A problem these films have is a lack of new approaches. They seem to have a young woman scientist who gets into trouble, and she is always related to one of the top scientists, so needs to be rescued no matter what. And they throw in a rather obese man as comic relief, but that is starting to get stale. In this story, a group of scientists are traveling across the snowy Arctic, in a normal van with apparently normal tires, not a snow-cat. Of course it falls into a suddenly opening crevasse. So they have to be rescued, and naturally only one person can do that rescue. The rescue team gets there, falls into a hole, does battle with some really strange beaked birds, and escapes out onto the snow. A monstrous snow monster comes out of the snow, to battle a huge shark that is apparently swimming under the snow. The snow monster seems to be several hundred feet tall, so not a typical Yeti. And the shark is pretty big also. Absolutely nuts.

-spoke too fast -i don't speak mandarin -i understood two words -not enough ice shark -yeti had a big butt (you're gyatt to see it) -i didnt realize this movie was in mandarin until 20 minutes in when they did not switch to english -had to explain to my son that this did not happen -was upset to see a movie make light of a tragedy like the yeti and ice shark battle (to be fair i skipped half of it cause i was waiting for them to speak english) -realized it had captions in the last five minutes -when i did turn on the captions they were wrong half the time -this movie might not be in mandarin -the mandarin was choppy, also it was not correct -this movie inspired me to learn mandarin -still waiting for the ice spice song, cameo, and twerk-off

Overall a great movie that had me on the edge of my seat 11/10*shark emoji, snowflake emoji, ram emoji viva china *moroccan flag emoji.

Ps. I am sober B)