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Let me start with a little bit background knowledge. For thousands of years, Chinese people have been retelling the beautiful but sorrowful love story of Chang'e. It's not simply a fairy tale. It was an expression of their reverence and imagination for the moon, for the extraterrestrial space. At the beginning, the Suzhou-style water-town and pagoda seems nothing out of ordinary (except for the mooncakes they make in the movie which are Cantonese style. Yes, we have Suzhou and Cantonese styles of mooncakes). However, everything becomes erratic or even psychotic once they get on the moon. The Cinderella Castle-looking palace, the awful and chaotic random combinations of the neon colors, the rambunctious dancing and rapping all seem so vulgar and ridiculous. Let along the chickens which are total ripoffs of Angry Birds and the vindictive Chang'e who seems to have some sort of personality disorder. Admittedly, bold adaptations are basic elements of cartoons. However, the unlimited and excessive "improvisation" and reckless distortion of the classic Chang'e story should not be seen as creativity but as total profanity of Chinese culture and a defeat in the tug of the war between Netflix and Disney.