LOS ANGELES -- Monster Hunt, the marital-arts/fantasy film that may or may not be China's highest-grossing movie of 2015, is coming to 30 U.S. theaters Friday in all its oddball, computer-animated glory.
If you're anything like us, you've heard about Monster Hunt -- but still aren't exactly sure whether you should bother checking out the movie that, according to state-run media in China, beat Furious 7 to become China's 2015 box-office champ with $381 million. (Some reports have disputed that figure, saying it was inflated by giveaway tickets and other means to put the local film in front of the U.S. import.)
In this 90-second clip (above), debuting exclusively on Mashable, you'll get an idea of what the English-dubbed version looks and sounds like. Distributor FilmRise is also releasing a subtitled version in the original Mandarin, which you can see in the trailer (below).
Monster Hunt takes place in a mythical world where monsters are in charge, while humans more or less keep to their own domain. A man gives birth to a monster baby Wuba, who is pursued by both species.
But in the clip above, it's the human baby that's being the real monster.