The Wandering Earth 2

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'The Wandering Earth II' Review: It Wanders Too Far (The New York Times)

The audacious sequel to Frant Gwo's 2019 sci-fi blockbuster follows survivors working to avert planetary disaster, but it loses much of the glee of its ...

It’s hard to say how much of a true cinematic achievement “The Wandering Earth” was when it gave China its Gwo’s follow-up takes place years before the events of the first film and focuses on the United Earth Government’s initial efforts to push Earth out of our solar system, a move intended to avoid planetary disaster. Boasting a bigger budget and greater expectations — the Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau has been added to the cast — “Wandering Earth II” is, narratively, a prequel.

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'The Wandering Earth II': Review (Screen International)

Lunar New Year 2019 saw Chinese science fiction cinema achieve lift off when Frant Gwo's adaptation of Liu Cixin's novella The Wandering Earth became a box ...

If the awe factor of the drawn-out conclusion is lessened by enough unabashed sentiment to power a rocket, the genuine sense of vastness will ensure that anyone who comes this far will stay the course for the planned third instalment. Ample time is also devoted to Tu, who lost his family in a car accident and seeks solace in two minutes of digital back-up of his daughter; Lau presents a finely composed portrait of grief as Tu becomes obsessed with the possibility of a family reunion in the digital realm. Evidently keen on the humanistic aspects of sci-fi, Gwo expands the character of Liu through a romance with equally capable fellow trainee Han Duoduo (Wang Zhi) while emphasising the sacrifices that have made the astronaut such a stoic figure on first encounter. Throughout its decades-spanning narrative, The Wandering Earth II goes through shifts in tone and pace which reflect how initial enthusiasm for the project amongst its participants is tested by setbacks and unfortunate personal circumstances. Facing the challenge of building towards a largely foregone conclusion, Gwo has taken scale to the next level while doubling down on the significance of land in Chinese culture and the necessity of global collective action (with China at its centre). Frustration peaks with terrorist attacks on the UEG headquarters and the Space Elevator, where Liu Peiqiang (Wu) is undergoing astronaut training.

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The Wandering Earth II (2023) Review - Voices From The Balcony (Voices From The Balcony)

Coming in at 3 hours long, The Wandering Earth II mixes impressive action and effects scenes with a less impressive plot and characters,

While the fate of some of the characters may be in doubt, we know that the obstacles will be dealt with and the project will be successful. From a narrative point though, the biggest problem with The Wandering Earth II is the most obvious one, we know how it all ends. There’s drama over who will get a place in the underground cities and who will be left on the surface to die, romance, terminal illness and a few other complications. The only surprises are that rather than a sequel it’s a prequel, telling the story of the Moving Mountain Project that turned Earth into a giant spaceship and that it manages to be even longer than the original, coming in at just under three hours. So many stories and plotlines get tossed at the viewer it’s hard to keep track of them all or to know which ones are important and which are merely distractions. But support for the project is far from universal and an alternative movement, The Digital Life Project has arisen.

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The Wandering Earth II review: a sci-fi blockbuster takes a dark turn (Polygon)

Frant Gwo's sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth, based on a short story by The Three-Body Problem author Cixin Liu, gets nearly three hours of prequel ...

The Wandering Earth II opens in theaters on Sunday, Jan. Skillfully made as it is, Wandering Earth II feels more like immersion therapy for the modern onslaught of apocalyptic news from around the world. That obviously isn’t Gwo’s intention, and it is remarkable that his three-hour Wandering Earth prequel is simultaneously stranger and more emotionally grounded than the earlier film. Much of the movie has a downbeat moon-gray palette, even in scenes that don’t take place on the moon. In many ways, Gwo carries this heaviness with more grace than the supposed masters of the modern form. Unlike Roland Emmerich (whose work the Wandering Earth series generally resembles) or Michael Bay (whose Armageddon feels like part of this movie’s DNA), Gwo isn’t afraid of quiet moments amid the bombast. But perhaps the goofiest thing about Wandering Earth II is how resolutely un-goofy much of it is. The writing team steals bits of Interstellar one moment, and engages in parallel thinking with Moonfall the next. There’s a seemingly mad scientist extolling the virtues of a “digital you that can live forever” — an AI-based plan pitched as an alternate way to survive the coming apocalypse. (“The world isn’t on the side of the reality,” one official laments.) Set across multiple decades leading up to Earth’s launch out of orbit (enabled by thousands of fusion-powered engines around the globe), the prequel starts off with plenty of its predecessor’s grab-bag maximalism. (In the U.S., it had a limited theatrical run, then premiered on Netflix a few months later.) Wandering Earth’s extensive, sometimes convoluted world-building, drawn from a short story by

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The film “The Wandering Earth 2” held the national premiere of ... (breakinglatest.news)

The film is directed by Guo Fan, supervised by Liu Cixin, starring Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li, Wang Zhi, Zhu Yanmanzi, and a special performance by Mr ...

The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage!” Facing the film The production has been fully upgraded, and many viewers think: “Details and textures are really the benchmark of the Chinese film industry, and the rhythm is intense and exciting! [China](https://www.breakinglatest.news/tag/china/) Film Co., Ltd., Guo Fan (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and [China](https://www.breakinglatest.news/tag/china/) Film Creative (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd. “The Wandering Earth 2″ has made Chinese science fiction more confident.” The story of the movie “The Wandering Earth 2” revolves around the previous work of “The Wandering Earth”. The story is fuller and the details are higher.” Andy Lau believes: “”The Wandering Earth 2” has more than 20,000 staff in front of and behind the scenes, and behind our “better” is the result of the unity of countless staff At the same time at the scene, Mr. The grand vision and emotions of the film have attracted many viewers: “The plot of the story and the special effects are both considered. [world](https://www.breakinglatest.news/category/world/) view, prepared a [world](https://www.breakinglatest.news/category/world/) view of more than 100,000 words, and the special effects visible in the film are more magnificent. In addition to the appreciation of the film from industry insiders, many ordinary viewers expressed their love for “The Wandering Earth 2” after watching the film for the first time. I want to take my family to watch it a few more times.” Zuo Lingfeng, who just won the championship in the annual comedy competition, also expressed his love for the film emotionally: “Seeing the homeland, watching I have come to hope, I have seen companionship, and I have seen the persistence of small people in the great era.” Zhou Shen, the singer who just sang the defining theme song “People Are_” for “The Wandering Earth 2”, sang the song on the spot, and his high-pitched voice was amazing. “Wu Jing, who played the role of Liu Peiqiang again, said with a smile that he is a “young actor”: “Liu Peiqiang in “The Wandering Earth 2″ is paying tribute to every ordinary person who shoulders the burden in ordinary life and protects the family.” At the same time He was also very emotional: “Actually, our current Xiaopoqiu is still very young, and the seeds planted at the beginning have sprouted a little. Today, the film “The Wandering Earth 2” held its national premiere of “Better Than One” in Beijing. Speaking of the unique theme of the premiere “Better Than One”, director Guo Fan especially thanked the audience: “Four years ago, it was the tolerance of the audience that made our previous work “The Wandering Earth” gain word-of-mouth and box office.

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