1, this film takes the actors of the CCTV version of Journey to the West as the selling point, aiming to attract the audience's attention. Despite such a strong cast, the audience didn't buy it. The picture of this film is rough and the content is empty. Even with the aura of the CCTV version of Journey to the West, it can't save the decline of this film.
2. The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel in ancient China. The novel mainly tells the story of the Monkey King's birth, following Bodhi's father to become a monk and make trouble in Heaven, meeting Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and White Horse Dragon, going west to learn Buddhist scriptures, going through difficulties and obstacles, exorcising demons, going through eighty-one difficulties, finally arriving in the Western Heaven to see the Buddha, and finally realizing the dream of the five saints. Based on the historical event of "Xuanzang's learning from the scriptures", the novel profoundly depicts the social life of the people in the Ming Dynasty through the author's artistic processing. The Journey to the West is a classic of China's ghost novels, reaching the peak of ancient romance novels, and is called the four classical novels of China together with The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin and A Dream of Red Mansions.