History Film / TheWanderingEarth

* HollywoodScience: Has this in spades. Reviewers like Creator/BobChipman have mentioned that he plot is as scientifically sound as that of ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' (which is famously used by NASA as a litmus test of how ''much'' Hollywood screws up).

* AdaptationExpansion: Exaggerated. [[spoiler: In the original novella, the Earth gliding past the Jupiter eerily gently, if somehow [[CosmicHorrorStory eldritch]], occupies just a paragraph (as in text shown in the CreativeClosingCredits), and makes all for the film's main plot's setting. Furthermore, the film adaption '''really''' hastened the construction of thrusters and maneuvered the PlanetSpaceship '''far''' too brutally, [[FridgeBrilliance potenetially responsible for]] ApocalypseHow.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: Exaggerated. [[spoiler: In the original novella, the Earth gliding past the Jupiter, uncannily gently, if somehow [[CosmicHorrorStory eldritch]], occupies just a paragraph (as in text shown in the CreativeClosingCredits), and makes all for the film's main plot's setting. Furthermore, the film adaption '''really''' hastened the construction of propellers and flew the PlanetSpaceship far too brutally.]]

* ArcNumber: CN171-11

* TheBigGuy: Wang Lei and the other members of the CN171-11 rescue team.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Invoked by accident, through wild ArtisticLicensePhysics.

* PoweredArmor: Not exactly armor, but rescue teams such as CN171-11 use exoskeletons that grant the user more strength.

* AllThereInTheManual

* ApocalypseHow: The expanding Sun threatens to engulf Earth. [[spoiler: Later, Earth on a collision course with Jupiter.]]

%%* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Liu Peiqiang and Wang Lei.]]

* GondorCallsForAid: Han Duoduo does this near the end of the movie.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Liu Peiqiang and Wang Lei.]]

** The "gravitational spike" that Jupiter causes.

''The Wandering Earth'' (Chinese: 流浪地球, Pinyin: Liúlàng Dìqiú) is a 2019 live-action science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, based on the novella by Liu Cixin. It is currently the second highest-grossing non-English film, surpassed only by ''Wolf Warrior 2''.

''The Wandering Earth'' (Chinese: 流浪地球, Pinyin: Liu Lang Di Qiu) is a 2019 live-action science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, based on the novella by Liu Cixin. It is currently the second highest-grossing non-English film, surpassed only by ''Wolf Warrior 2''.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The movie takes place in 2075, as shown by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it display monitor. The technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. This means that the Earth Engines were activated in 2068. In fact, Han Zi'ang states that no Earth Engine had failed in 30 years, which means that at least one was completed in 2045, and were being constructed earlier still.

* HollywoodScience: Has this in spades.

* DiedStandingUp: One small team of tree is seen frozen in a walking position, having succumbed to the sheer cold while transporting a lighter core. Justified in that they are completely encased in ice, so that they continue to be held up.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: In a way, the United Earth Government is this, as MOSS is acting on the decision made by the council members of the government to continue with Project Helios instead of saving Earth. Eventually, however, the Government has a HeelFaceTurn and chooses hope, allowing Liu Peiqiang to destroy the Navigation Platform International Space Station to save Earth.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Wang Lei.]]

* TheArk: Earth. Instead of bringing just a sufficient amount of resources to establish a new home around a new sun, humanity decides to bring the ''entire planet''.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The movie takes place in 2075, as shown by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it banner. The technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. This means that the Earth Engines were activated in 2068. In fact, Han Zi'ang states that no Earth Engine had failed in 30 years, which means that at least one was completed in 2045, and were being constructed earlier still.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Despite speaking different languages, characters in the film can often understand each other, such as the Chinese Liu Peiqiang and the Russian Makarov. Might have something to do with the earpieces each Navigational Platform International Space Station crew member is wearing. At one point in the movie, one rescue worker on Earth is explicitly shown activating a translation device when receiving a spoken message.
** In the English dub of the film, however, TranslationConvention apparently takes place; while the original Chinese version had every person speak their native language with subtitles, the dub just has everyone speak English (with the applicable accents).

* ApocalypseHow: The expanding Sun threatens to engulf Earth.

* CreativeClosingCredits: A Earth the size of a grain of sand flies through floating parts of a printing press, which assemble together and print words onto immense pages, which get rolled up and bound into Liu Cixin's original ''The Wandering Earth'' novella. Pages of the book also reform into an Earth Engine, the Navigation Platform International Space Station, and Jupiter.

* MonumentalDamageResistance: Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower is shown to be intact. So is the (fictional) building for the Shanghai Olympics 2044.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Despite speaking different languages, characters in the film can often understand each other, such as the Chinese Liu Peiqiang and the Russian Makarov. At one point in the movie, one worker is explicitly shown activating a translation device when receiving a spoken message.

* LovableCoward: Tim and Makarov, again.