Ne Zha 2, the highest-grossing animated movie ever, pits breathtaking spectacle against fart gags

Polygon.com / 21.02.25

Ne Zha 2, the highest-grossing animated movie ever, pits breathtaking spectacle against fart gags

Ne Zha 2 features a combat sequence that has to be seen to be believed. The Chinese movie, which recently passed the $1.5 billion mark at the box office to become the biggest international animated hit of all time, is built around shows of immense power, leading up to a conflict between godlike forces and their armies. Thousands of white-clad martial-arts warriors, cloaked in glowing golden bubbles of energy, pile atop each other on a vastly branching magical staff to form what looks like a beautiful mountaintop tree in autumn. Energy-breathing dragons zip around blasting all resistance, as two avatars of godly power band together into an irresistible force. Its breathtaking. On a big screen, its almost overwhelming. The same movie also features a sequence where a visually impaired elderly man mistakes the giant pink ass of a flying pig for a persons face, and keeps trying to speak to it while the pig repeatedly farts clouds of bilious green gas into his open mouth. Thats the basi...
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