CGI, action scenes, and adventure aside, this movie is quite entertaining. However, I cannot get the fact that Sun Wukong was judged and abandoned by the monk for seeing the plans and works of the demon. It is unclear if the old lady and her 2 daughters and the mother and daughter, all killed by Wukong, are really humans or just the demons in disguise. I mean, if Wukong 'killed' the demons and they come back the next scenes, then he really didn't kill them. If he indeed killed humans possessed by the demons, why is it his fault? What can he do aside from what he already did? What did the monk do about it? Can he really exorcise the demons out of the humans' bodies? If yes, why didn't he? He actually was just blind to the truth that there were indeed demons doing evil deeds and trying to capture him specifically. It was never about Wukong's eyes or 'the loop in his heart'. The problem lies with the monk's own eyes. He is just plain stupid. A monk who cannot distinguish good from evil. He is gullible and useless. If there was an incident where Wukong killed an actual 'innocent', it would have been a different story and it would have been better. THAT would justify the monk's reactions. But the mother/daughter incident was legit. They were not innocent, hence, Wukong did not deserve to be treated that way.
Review of The Monkey King 2
