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let me tell you about a little film
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called n 2 n 2 is a Chinese animated
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feature film it's 2 hours and 23 minutes
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it's a sequel to a film called NAA we
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which you can watch free on
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YouTube and if I were to tell you the
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weird story of this uh you would be
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incredibly confused my uh friend Mike MC
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Wong tried to explain the story of it
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it's just a fantasy film with uh people
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with superpowers I see it as and I I I I
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can't say for sure it very much has a
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feel of the Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z
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and all that that series with
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superpowered Spiritual Beings and
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Immortals and this is I mean the most
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over-the-top version of a Dragon Ball
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movie that is just um it it it's sort of
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two factions of spirits battling each
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other right you've got literal dragons
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and quote evil spirits going after the
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people I'm trying to simplify it because
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to get into it is going to be it it's
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too much it's too much it's a lot of
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Chinese folklore but I'll say not
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knowing anything and going going in and
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I went back and watched the original nah
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the pre the the precursor to this movie
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which was just okay this one goes for it
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in such an epic way like the visuals are
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what makes it I don't care if you know
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what's going on the visuals there's and
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not only that like the visuals are this
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insane where you've got these epic
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battles with thousands of people on
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screen like it like thousands of people
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that form like a human cherry blossom
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tree where the cherry blossoms are
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humans in epic battles that are are like
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like anything out of the like Lord of
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the Rings Two Towers but times a
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thousand it's like I feel like this
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movie in a way it's like the Chinese
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saying oh yeah you want to make epic
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movies we're going to make the most epic
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epic epic movie Epic and over the top
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and all the powers are over over the top
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evolve but it still you know in spite of
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the epicness does have a heart to it and
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nah has this relationship with his
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mother that is very heartwarming there's
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a scene where I I I got to admit got
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kind of choked up so uh I recommend this
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spectacle and just jumping in and you
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can watch the first movie is actually on
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YouTube for free or I think it's on tub
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or it's it's available to watch for free
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so just look up NAA and I was blown away
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by the visuals I mean like I mean maybe
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we could watch the trailer it would
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probably get copyright claimed but I
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feel like it was so let's watch the
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trailer why not why can't we watch the
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trailer because I feel like it's it's
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just hard to describe
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um in terms of just it everything is big
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and spectacle and huge and um I gotta
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like here let me let me queue it up here
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because you're just gonna see
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like just stuff that will blow your mind
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let's take a look one and a half
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I will say this it starts out very
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cartoony like kind of kid-like
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cartoony and then you know it gets it
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gets really dark like I would say little
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kids will be it looks cute at the
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beginning but it gets very very dark and
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scary nightmare images by the second
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half so I would say in terms of kids uh
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maybe not for single digit age like I'd
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say 11 and up maybe yeah pg-3 because it
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gets scary I think little kids also the
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running time two hours 20 minutes so um
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I'm giving this a strong recommend
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strong recommend uh for those willing to
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throw roll the dice take a risk and
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really is China lately they are trying
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to be competitive with Hollywood
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mean as an animated film probably the
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best I've seen this year by the way
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we're only in February so whatever but
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it is uh for 2025 I don't see how this
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doesn't get an Oscar Nom it's that good
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and I don't know what the politics are
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that whatever I mean Flo is nominated
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this year so uh but I really enjoyed it
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strong recommend eight out of 10 for me
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okay so based on your description of
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this is the reason why uh I I'm not
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inclined to see it and and the issue I
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have with a lot of the Chinese uh films
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but the part of it is I I having heard
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everything you said about I don't know
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what this story is um and and I'll be
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honest when I hold on when I watch
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Chinese movies like this I find myself
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getting lost and uh Missing things and
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and finding myself well why are we here
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how did we get here and and you know
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it's kind of wishing that I I could go
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back and rewatch what i' just seen so I
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know where we are plots like this tend
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to get confusing especially uh for some
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reason Chinese films there's just so
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much going on that it's just hard to
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kind of grasp onto the plot and stick
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it yeah I what is do you can you give a
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simple idea what this plot is what we're
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trying to he he's he's he it's a
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Redemption Arc it's it's very we've seen
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it before yeah but you're right the
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story is confusing I had to have Mike MC
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Wong walk walk me through it yeah his
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description was more confusing than the
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movie exactly but yeah yeah but I'm
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recommending it for the visuals and how
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how crazy big this film is it's truly
