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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 4172071" data-attributes="member: 342">While it may be both -- he *has* taken a lot of shots to the head over the years, after all -- I don't think that's the case.  I work with a lot of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean engineers.  The sense of humor between the different groups is very different.  After an engineer has been here for a long time, they start to 'get' American humor.  And I've been working with them long enough that I can *sometimes* understand their sense of humor.  (Ironically, one of the few things everyone can agree upon is that people falling down is always funny.)Keep in mind, too, that this movie was significantly changed during writing/development.  It started as a very eastern story -- the legend of the Monkey King and the journey to rescue him.  Then the studio worried about accessability for American audiences and changed the storyline significantly, with time-travelling teens and new characters.It might be a cultural mis-match or it could be the mash-up of story elements that led to his comment.  Or he could have taken a few too many shots to the head over the years.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (But I'll let someone else tell him that, no matter HOW old he is these days...)</blockquote>