Available on Netflix
Spoiler Alert
Not everyone will be aware Light Chaser Animation Studios‘ White Snake has a sequel. It went from Chinese theatres straight to American streaming in 2021 and that’s a shame. White Snake 2: The Tribulation of the Green Snake is retitled by Netflix as simply Green Snake. Here, the time spent to focus on Tang Xiaoxi searching for her sister in a post-apocalyptic world would’ve looked just as fantastic had it been given a chance to play on the big screen in North America. Instead, it’s being streamed.
And for home video collectors, the wait for a physical release is long; this service doesn’t like to offer it whereas in China, it’s possible to find, and perhaps bereft of a subtitle track. Although this movie works reasonably well as a stand-alone product, I recommend seeing this series as its originally intended by this studio over what North American producers have planned–to split them up. Although the setup does recount what has happened previously, to experience the first film again (movie review link) will have more of an impact.
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