THE MONKEY KING FULL MOVIE WITH JACKIE CHAN FREELu ends the tale with a prophecy about a "Seeker" who will find the staff and free the King. The Warlord tricked the King into setting aside his magic staff, Ruyi Jingu Bang, and transformed the immortal into a stone statue, but the King cast his staff far away before the transformation. Lu tells him the story of the rivalry between the Monkey King and the Jade Warlord. He is saved by the inebriated traveling scholar Lu Yan, a supposed "immortal," who remains alert and agile even when drunk. The soldiers see his staff and attempt to seize it. When Tripitikas regains consciousness, he finds himself in a village in ancient China that is under attack by armored soldiers. He is cornered on the rooftop before being pulled off the roof by the staff. Hop tells Tripitikas to deliver the staff to its rightful owner and Tripitikas flees with the staff. On his way home, Tripitikas is harassed by some hooligans, whose leader Lupo attempts to use him to help them rob the shop-owner Hop, who is shot by Lupo. He visits a pawn shop in Chinatown to buy wuxia DVDs and discovers a golden staff. South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas is a fan of martial arts films and awakens from a dream of a battle between Sun Wukong and celestial soldiers in the clouds. The Forbidden Kingdom grossed $128 million against a budget of $55 million. Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus praises the fight scenes but says the film has too much filler. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the US and Hong Kong on Septemand the United Kingdom on November 17, 2008. The film is distributed in the United States through Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company, and through The Huayi Brothers Film & Taihe Investment Company in China. The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping. Loosely based on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, it is the first film to star Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The Forbidden Kingdom ( Chinese: 功夫之王: Gong Fu Zhi Wang ( Mandarin) or Gung Fu Ji Wong ( Cantonese) and translated King of Kung Fu ( English) Working title: The J & J Project ) is a 2008 wuxia film written by John Fusco, and directed by Rob Minkoff, and starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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