On the occasion of Lunar New Year 2025, the Chinese box office witnessed the fierce competition of a series of quality movies.
Despite setting a record for pre-orders, Tieu Chien's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was still completely overwhelmed by "Na Tra: The Ghost of the Sea". The animated film of director Sui Cao is considered to have many attractive and outstanding features, with the hearts of both adults and young audiences.
Attractive and meaningful content
Following the content of part 1 (in 2019), part 2 of "Na Tra" tells the story of Na Tra and Ngao Binh (son of Dong Hai Long Vuong) keeping their souls, but their bodies are at risk of being killed in a short time. Tien Thai Att Chan Nhan planned to use seven-color lotus flowers to help the two merge their souls and bodies. But at this time, Na Tra has to face a new enemy.
Although it is just a legendary story, the plots of the film are meaningful and valuable in modern society. If the first part of "Na Tra" encourages the spirit of overcoming fate, the second part encourages people to break the rules and prejudices. Once old regulations are passed, people will discover true values.
On the surface, the film tells the story of a rebellious little ghost who played big in the sea, but hidden behind are issues of the times that not everyone realizes.
Eye-catching effects
"Na Tra: Seaweed Ghosts" focuses on investing in viewers' visual experiences with a total of 1,900 vivid scenes. The film crew used 800 computers to create 180,000 eye-catching and impressive frames.
According to page 163, the effects in the film are all meticulously and perfectly produced by the crew. In particular, the thrilling matches surprised and overwhelmed viewers.
The QQ page believes that the effect in "Na Tra: Ma Dong Vuon Hai" has far exceeded international standards for animated films, creating a new turning point for Chinese cinema.
The factor of humorous insertion reasonably
The film cleverly combines Chinese legend elements with intense battles, but still lacks a series of humorous, close, and bright moments.
The funny scenes such as Na Tra and Lai Yeu "transformed" Ngao Binh's shape or Ngao Binh's "helpful words" for Na Tra easily made the audience laugh with joy.
This makes the film both attractive and attractive to young audiences and retains the number of adult audiences.
With extremely convincing factors, "Na Tra: Agarwood Ghost" easily surpassed "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" that were commented to have bland content, the scene of the act being dishonest, abusing the effects and acting of Tieu Chien and Trang Dat Phi both disappointed.
According to Sina, after 4 days of release, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the work with the highest refund rate. The film only had 600 million yuan (VND 2,040 billion) in revenue, with a certain loss of capital.
Launched on January 29 (the first day of Tet), "Na Tra: Ghosts are bustling in the sea" immediately created a fever that broke many box office records. The film earned 434 million USD (VND 10,889 billion) after 5 days of cinema in China, becoming the film with the highest opening revenue ever on a market.
According to Maoyan Prof.al's forecast, "Na Tra: The Sea Delta" has the final revenue of about 6.8 billion yuan (23,120 billion VND), surpassing the 5.7 billion yuan (VND 19,380 billion) of "Truong Tan Ho", occupying the championship position in the history of Chinese film box office revenue.
The film was highly appreciated by the audience with 8.6 points on Douban, nearly 50% of the viewers gave 5 stars. Not only causing a fever domestically, "Na Tra: Seaweed ghost" is about to be released in many countries such as the US, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Korea... and is expected to continue to earn huge profits for producers.
