Review of 'Ne Zha 2'

Unless you are a major Sinophile or one of those wayward souls who monitor box office receipts like day traders monitor the Japanese futures market (ahem), you likely haven’t heard of the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

Ne Zha 2 , an animated partial retelling of the 16th-century Chinese folk novel Investiture of the Gods , is the first non-English-language film to gross more than $2 billion, the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time, and the highest-grossing film in a single box office territory ever. The United States’s top entry on the same list is Star Wars: The Force Awakens with $936 million domestic, and it is illustrative that its Chinese counterpart is a nationalistic folk tale while our blockbuster champion stems from the imagination of a froggy man fro