History Film / JourneyToTheWestConqueringTheDemons

* MakeMeWannaShout: One of the Monkey King's most common attacks. Interestingly, the attacks aren't just concussive but also can ''incinerate'' the target.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Duan (played by Shu Qi) can't read well. So in trying to put back Tang's book of nursery rhymes, she mixed up the words and accidentally created a sutra that summoned the Buddha to strike the Monkey King down.

A 2013 loose reimagination of the Chinese classic ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' directed by Creator/StephenChow. It contains Chow's trademark mix of drama, kung fu, and slapstick comedy. Taking place before the eponymous journey west, the film shows a younger, less enlightened Tang Sanzang as he tries to protect people from demons and learns much about the world. Along the way he meets other demon hunters, learns much about himself, and gets hit. [[ButtMonkey A lot.]]

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Duan can't read well. So in trying to put back Tang's book of nursery rhymes, she mixed up the words and accidentally created a sutra that summoned the Buddha to strike the Monkey King down.

* MamaBear: After her daughter is [[spoiler: eaten by the fish demon]], the woman from the opening grabs a BladeOnAStick and jumps in the river. She's clearly terrified, but demands the fish give her her daughter back. [[spoiler:She just ends up its next meal.]]

* BatmanGambit: How Sun Wukong tricked Sanzang into removing the actual seal that freed him, which is not far away from how the original character rely on his wits to overcome the odds. Initially, he deliberately put on airs of a suspicious behavior by asking Sanzang to remove some conspicuous object in his space. When Sanzang refused, he raged, which convinced Sanzang that had to be the seal that trapped Wukong for the past 500 years. After further drama and action, Wukong casually requested Sanzang to remove some innocuous looking lotus (The actual seal) so that he can have a better view of the night. Sanzang who by that time had let down his guard, did just that.

* BaldOfAwesome: After spending the entire movie with long hair, Tang [[spoiler: has his hair ripped off by the Monkey King. Then he reaches enlightenment and take a level in badass]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Completely averted. Unlike most other lighter adaptations of the original novel, the new interpretations of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing are more or less portrayed as they appear in novel, in terms of the level of the atrocities committed. In Monkey's case, this is a subversion, as he's first introduced claiming that he's reformed, and now a good guy who wants to serve Buddha.

* InfantImmortality: Played straight with the infant in the opening sequence, the village works together to save her. [[spoiler: Averted with the little girl from the opening, who is eaten by the fish demon.]]

* {{Prequel}}:
** Could be seen as one to ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', but the original literature does tell the stories of the pilgrims from the beginning, making this more of a re-telling of their origins instead.

** KL Hog was murdered by his wife [[YourCheatingHeart and her handsome lover]] and then changed into a pig demon after swearing to kill all women who lusted after handsome men.

* NoSell: After [[spoiler:achieveing True Enlightenment, Tang becomes completely immune to all of demonic Monkey King's attacks.]]

* MamaBear: After her daughter is [[spoiler: eaten by the fish demon]], the woman from the opening grabs a BladeOnAStick and jumps in the river. She's clearly terrified, but demands the fish give her her daughter back.