After spending 500 years in an ice cage, the Monkey King is released by a child to save his village from monsters.
Monkey King: Hero Is Back (Chinese: 西游记之大圣归来; pinyin: Xīyóu jì zhī dà shèng guīlái; literally: 'Journey to the West: Return of the Great Sage') is a 2015 Chinese computer-animated film directed by first time director Tian Xiaopeng. The film was released on 10 July 2015. The film was the highest-grossing animated film in China until it was surpassed by Zootopia and Kung Fu Panda 3.
500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a boy monk, sole survivor of a previous attack as a baby, flees to the mountains to save a baby girl. The boy stumbles into the cave where the Monkey King was imprisoned and unknowingly, releases him from his curse. However, a remnant of Buddha's seal prevents Sun Wukong from regaining his full powers. Despite being restricted by Buddha's seal, Sun Wukong fights bravely against the monsters to protect the children who implicitly trust him.
However, events escalate and the girl is abducted by the leader of the monsters, who easily overcomes Sun Wukong, due to his powers being suppressed by Buddha's seal. It is shown that the Monster Lord plans to refine the baby girl and the other recently abducted babies into elixirs, like the previous batches of babies which were abducted & sacrificed over the years. In the process of rescuing her and the other babies who were kidnapped by the monsters, the young boy is killed.
On seeing his death, the Monkey King erupts into a full rage and forcibly breaks Buddha's Seal with sheer brute force, despite the seal still trying to suppress him. This returns his original supernatural powers to him and he easily defeats the Monster Lord.
As the story ends, it is revealed the young boy was not dead, but was only seriously injured and had fallen unconscious. The abducted children are returned to their families by the boy monk and his teacher (who had somehow tracked him to the monster's lair) on floating clouds summoned by the Monkey King. However, Sun Wukong himself does not appear in this scene and it is not shown or stated where he has disappeared off to.
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