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Taken from YouTube:

In an exclusive YouTube worldwide premiere, Jamie Hewlett, the visual mastermind behind Gorillaz and "Tank Girl", has crafted a live-action masterpiece to accompany the first single from the massively ambitious "Monkey: Journey To The West". The album, a collaboration with Damon Albarn, is out now on XL Recordings

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[priestofbowflex]

Sooooooo tempted to go and see, if I wasn't stupidly busy...

[ruyi_jingu_bang]

It's pretty good. I'll probably puppy eye and try to get someone to buy me the album (yon pre-paid credit card has no little green fwends at the moment). It's based off the Princess Iron Fan portion of Journey to the West, where after she refused to loan him her fan he turned to a bug and went inside of her to beat her up from the inside. Because if the Monkey King asks you for something, it is not exactly a request. Little bastard. But to his credit he wanted it for a good reason and she was kind of being a bitch.

[the_missingone]

I'm teaching this text right now in World Lit. I LOVE it. I'll show this clip in class!

[ruyi_jingu_bang]

I have a bunch more I found here. A Chinese Odyssey is sort of like the Forbidden Kingdom in that it's a disnification of Journey to the West, but parts of it are still good to watch and it's from the guys that did Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. Also Dickey Cheung's Monkey King is to die for.