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

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

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

[Hui] does not achieve the surreal grandeur of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films, but he has enough imagination and talent to engage his audience on its own level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2016

"Monster Hunt" has visual appeal to spare, but the allure ends there.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Scene after scene of violent standoffs, narrow escapes, and weird-looking creatures-like Star Wars but with a lot more slapstick and fart jokes.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2016

If you're willing to overlook some monstrously big plot holes and logic gaps, this half-animated Chinese blockbuster is an agreeably bonkers, occasionally disturbing cinematic ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2016

Raman Hui's Monster Hunt is a kid-friendly adventure fantasy that may be too slowly paced for its target demographic.

| Jan 19, 2016

Its technical wizardry and zippy, Hollywood-influenced storytelling smarts dwarf any brand of tyke-skewing entertainment China has ever come up with.

| Jul 28, 2015