It has a few misfired jokes and an occasional lapse in energy, but all up it is all tremendously good fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 4, 2020

It's Monster Love for Monster Hunt! It's a pure delight!

| Nov 5, 2019

Those who manage to make it through the cultural differences will find Monster Hunt a charming, emotionally engaging and moreover intelligent film, one which will handsomely repay their suspension of some admittedly quite wilful disbelief.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 18, 2018

Monster Hunt, although an acquired taste, is an interestingly different tale told keeping various Chinese themes in mind, in addition to various sight gags, martial arts (but of course) and some humour too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2017

Apart from the central monster figure Wuba being extremely adorable - merchandising oppportunity alert! - there's nothing here to get excited about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2017

The movie is a mixed bag, but one filled with imagination and ingenuity, and as such as nuts as Monster Hunt proves to be it's also just enjoyable enough to make dealing with its wildly perverse lapses into pandemonium worth enduring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2016

Monster Hunt is far more engaging as cultural commentary than as entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2016

There's a charm that makes Monster Hunt worth seeing if only for curiosity's sake.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 10, 2016

Kid-friendly fare amusing enough to entertain adults, too, provided their brains are on pause!

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2016

The effort into the sets, costumes, and cinematography are immaculate and everything is done for fun. Just don't expect Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2016

The plot is even more nonsensical than it sounds, but the monsters' high-energy antics and the humans' martial-arts skills make for a delightfully bizarre adventure romp.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2016

An oddball mlange of action, slapstick, sentimentality and ghoulishness, all wrapped up into one big, galumphing package... more a curiosity than a delight, but the adventurous might want to give the sweet-and-sour dish a try.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 24, 2016

While its world is set-up quickly and the spectacular visual effects immediately sparkle and impress, Monster Hunt soon disintegrates into mayhem.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 22, 2016

Chinese fantasy mega-hit has lots of martial arts action.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2016

This film is pleasantly cheesy, and probably more interesting than anything that's currently being marketed to your not-so-picky kids. Try it, they'll like it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 22, 2016

Some of this recalls Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West," minus the brilliance.

| Jan 21, 2016

The film is far from perfect, but it's certainly ambitious, often entertaining and, compared to the feeble competition from new American films of the moment, a singing, dancing, stomping and chomping "Citizen Kane."

| Jan 21, 2016

"Monster Hunt" broke box office records in China, but American viewers may wonder why this confused and confusing adventure-comedy enthralled audiences there.

| Jan 21, 2016

Director Raman Hui mixes martial-arts fights and slapstick comedy (lots of mugging by Jing) into a whimsical, fast-paced monster mash.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2016

"Monster Hunt" is an acquired taste, but those able to dial into its special frequency of fantasy and pandemonium are rewarded with a breezy, amusing extravaganza.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 21, 2016