I watched this yonks ago and was underwhelmed by it. I was significantly more whelmed by it this time but it’s just not a Lynch film that’s particularly for me. I’ve watched Eraserhead and Wild at Heart recently and there’s a really pleasant elusive quality to them. With this, the elusiveness doesn’t click and just makes it feel like the story is being somewhat improperly told. The weirdness and kink-related content is interesting and works well (I think these elements must…

This breaks the Disney/Pixar mould but in a completely opposite way to Flow. Whereas that film is dialogue-free and aims at universality, Ne Zha 2 is packed with rapid-fire dialogue and is very culturally specific.

I can only review this in the context I’ve been given - the original Ne Zha is completely unavailable in the UK, so I wasn’t able to catch up on the story. I’d hoped this being released in the absence of the original might mean…