I have to start by saying, as a big positive, I love how this movie expanded the world, and gave us even more visual delights with everyone's spells and the monsters/familiars. The world presented to us in this movie is a much wider, richer, more colourful world than in The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity. However, when it came down to character's emotions and connections with one another, I found myself not feeling anything.

Not only did I feel nothing for these characters, but I couldn't understand their feelings for each other either. We were told they cared, but ultimately what I saw couldn't convince me - they felt poorly developed. Even the villain's motivation felt super weak to me... Comparably, while Dream of Eternity was much more constrained in terms of world-building, emotionally it knew how to make us care about the characters and show how they cared/began to care for one another.

Overall it's a fun movie, but eye-candy alone isn't enough for me, I need meat in the story, and sadly I felt like that's where this movie faltered. Watch if you want a fun 2 hour movie that looks good, but if you're looking for a similar emotional experience you may have had watching Dream of Eternity, you may end up let down.