The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness

The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness (Chinese: 喜羊羊与灰太狼之喜气羊羊过蛇年) is a 2013 Chinese animated film[1][2] part of the film series based on the animated television series Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. It is preceded by Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail (2012) and is followed by Meet the Pegasus (2014).

The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness
Film poster
Chinese喜羊羊与灰太狼之喜气羊羊过蛇年
Directed byWilliam Kan
Huang Xiaoxue
Yu Tak Wai
Written byShi Jianna
Wang Shu
Wu Chaowei
Li Binglin
Based onPleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf
by Huang Weiming
Produced byXu Hao
Steven Yung
Yu Jie
Li Lisi
Xing Ying
Edited bySun Caixia
Music byTomy Wai
Production
companies
Distributed byToonmax Media
Zhujiang Film Group
Shanghai Film Group
Wanda Media
Beijing Golden Harvest Entertainment
Intercontinental Film Distributors (H.K.)
Release date
  • January 24, 2013 (2013-01-24) (Mainland China)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryMainland China
LanguagesMandarin
Cantonese
Korean
BudgetCN¥27.3 million
Box officeCN¥124.937 million (US$20.7 million) (Mainland China)
HK$1.01 million (Hong Kong)

Plot edit

Wolffy invents "Weather control" to capture goats but end up losing control of wind, rain, thunder and lightning. Thereby, Green-Green Grassland suffers a lot from the changeable weather. In order to initiate the ark to take the Green-Green Grassland residents away from disaster, the goats start their journey of finding a snake tribe that has been missing for thousand years. It takes them a while to notice that their new friend Bieber is exactly the extinct snake. Luckily, tribes work together to solve the weather chaos despite their differences and save the Green-Green Grassland.[3]

Reception edit

The film grossed RMB125 million (US$20.7 million) at the Chinese box office.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ EntGroup Consulting (2013-01-24). "Mainland Box Office Chart for Week 3, 2013". english.entgroup.cn. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
  2. ^ "The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness". english.entgroup.cn. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
  3. ^ "CPE - "LET OUR COLOURS ENTERTAIN YOU"". cpe.22dm.com. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ^ Kevin Ma (20 January 2014). "Boonie Bears sets China animation record". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 24 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

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