An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Enchanted.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
The staff transports the teenager to ancient China for a largely continuous martial-arts quest.
A legendary staff transports a contemporary teenager to ancient China.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
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Cast: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing
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4K UHD
The Forbidden Kingdom 4K (2008)
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Release date
Feb 25, 2025
Studio
Lionsgate Films
Resolution
Upscaled 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region free
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Two-disc set (1 BD-100, 1 BD-50)