Bai She: Yuan qi

The legend of the white snake is a family-know fairly tale among the Chinese people. I have already seen many editions about the love story between lady White snake and the Dr. Xu. But there are only few words describing why Lady W fall in love with her boy friend. In this movie, the screen writer successfully combined the legend of white snake and another famous classic novel - the story of snake catchers. I think it is a great idea. in addition, the film scenes are fantastic and the characters are beautiful. 9/10 is a reasonable grade for it.

I'm not usually one for animated movies, let alone having to read them as well as way them. I literally could not take my eyes off the movie, the subtitles didn't even matter around 10 minutes into the movie. The graphics were great, the story was amazing, and actors although i couldn't understand them, still drove emotion into the characters that i ( a stern movie critic ) absolutely loved. I can't wait until there is a number 2 of this, and by heck i believe there should be. Thank you all for the movie, i thoroughly loved it.

1. Animation quality was uncharacteristically quite good for a Chinese animation. Backgrounds were more detailed than usual, except lower rating because they were static unmoving. Foreground central character/scenes were quite realistic in some respects such as hair & movement, except facial & other main details were 2-D flat. 2. English voicing was quite good possibly using Hong Kong educated voice actors - not sure. 3. Storyline was exceptional. An actual historic myth slightly modified to be movie appealing to most audiences (younger viewers may not like the violence). Very creative, seldom seen twists 'n' turns. China has many myths that translate well as animations and I hope this production crew continues with more such stories.

I have read a lot reviews about this movie. And when it comes to Chinese movies, reviews more or less come with political bias. And I hope, my review can clear things up a bit. This is a well animated movie, for average movie goers the animation is more than acceptable. But does the animation reaches 2019 Pixar standards? No, the expression on the character is limited, specially on Ah Xuan. The skin and body lack elasticity and weight, and the cloth dynamic is weird. What stands out technical wise, is the background and sets. They are painstaking made to resemble traditional Chinese ink paintings. The animator took the full liberty of making the fight scene, they are a visual spectacle. Super-nature powers, light beams, mythical creatures fills up the screen at times, which may not be everybody's cup of tea. But sure is entertaining. There are complains about the storytelling element. For the Chinese, the story of white snake is one of the most well known fiery tells. It is like the story of Santa Claus or tooth fiery for the westerner. For that reason, the creators did skip the world building part, expecting the viewers can fill in the rest. It is also true that the tempo is sometimes slow for this movie, but after all, the white snake story was always a love story and not a action film. And the biggest controversy of this film, the sexual under tone. This movie features an animated kiss scene, sexy villain and implied sex scene. Some people are offended because they think CG animation are for Children. But this is a love story, more importantly in the fiery tell white snake was pregnant with Xu Xian's child. How do they have a Child without having sex? And I don't want to Discourage anyone, the sexual tone is a very minor part of this story. It kind of feel like 2D Disney style sexual tone.

In conclusion, great movie with a non-western story. I see you are a man of culture as well.

Recently I saw a Chinese animated film "Bai She". I give this movie a 10/10. I loved it. It was beautiful, entertaining, sexy, a sophisticated animated film intended for adults. The quality of the animation was superb. I was truly blown away. I don't think I've ever seen an animated film as good as this. I hope that everyone around the world gets a chance to see "Bai She"!