It’s not unusual to encounter an animated tale in which the hero is an incorrigible child (just look at “Boss Baby” or the Teen Titans). But the title character of “Nezha” i…
” is no mere mouthy delinquent. He’s a scamp from hell, a tauntingly invincible bad-seed superkid who has been infused, from birth, with the spirit of the Demon Pearl. He’s never happier than when he’s destroying something , and the movie, which was made in China, has already destroyed several box-office records. Since opening in July, “” has taken in $725 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing non-U.S.
Technically, Nezha is only two years old, but he looks about nine. He’s got bangs and a pair of pigtail knots, kohl-rimmed raccoon eyes, a red underworld insignia branded on his forehead, and a smile that lights up with enough prankish malevolence to make him look like a junior version of Joker.
Can he wriggle out of his fate? That’s the question on which the rather busy plot is hung, as Nezha gets tugged in different directions by an ambiguous host of spirit mentors, from the stammering Shen Gongbao , who could be an early-’90s virtual-reality Dracula, to Ao Bing , who looks like a blue-haired version of Legolas from “The Lord of the Rings,” even though he’s actually the reincarnated son of the Dragon King, who is out to liberate his clan from their underwater prison lair.
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