{"id":16307,"date":"2025-08-22T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16307\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:34:08","slug":"ne-zha-2-review-the-chinese-animated-phenomenon-is-a-gorgeously-animated-epic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16307\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ne Zha 2\u2019 Review: The Chinese Animated Phenomenon Is a Gorgeously Animated Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a year that\u2019s proven a bit soft at the box office, the biggest story is the monstrous power of \u201cNe Zha 2<\/a>,\u201d a Chinese CGI animated feature that, during its theatrical release in January, utterly annihilated the likes of \u201cFantastic Four<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSuperman<\/a>,\u201d and even \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d to become the highest global earning film this year. The competition isn\u2019t tight, either: with $2.2 billion grossed so far, it has an absurd $1.2 billion lead over \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d and is the fifth highest-earning movie ever, no qualifications needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNe Zha 2<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t the first Chinese film to challenge Hollywood productions in terms of success, with the country having established itself as a highly important market for global productions. But its sheer impact still heavily outpaces any other Chinese film ever made. By comparison, the second-highest-grossing Chinese film of all-time is 2021\u2019s \u201cThe Battle at Lake Changjin<\/a>,\u201d which \u201conly\u201d grossed a lowly $913 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a year that\u2019s proven a bit soft at the box office, the biggest story is the monstrous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1569,1570,1566,1568,1567,18,117,1237,1239,19,17,327,1571,1240,1238,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-16307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-realisateurs","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}