First overseas reviews: SCMP and Martin Cid Magazine weigh in

In a review published on August 14, the South China Morning Post's James Marsh gave All Wishes Come True! 3.5 out of 5 stars, describing it as "an enthralling origin story for the legendary Eight Immortals, propelled by the same heroic gusto and eye-popping spectacle as an Avengers movie," and "a visually dazzling infusion of Chinese and Western storytelling conventions that manages to feel culturally authentic and wholly accessible."[1]

Marsh noted the film is produced by Pearl Studio, "the Shanghai-based animation house responsible for Kung Fu Panda 3 and Netflix's Academy Award-nominated Over the Moon," and follows swordsman Lu Dongbin (voiced by Li Shaozhe) and pickpocket Zhongli Quan (Chen Hao) as they plot a heist on the Palace of the Gods.[1]

Martin Cid Magazine's Jun Satō wrote on August 15 that the film "treats a canonical Chinese legend the way a caper treats a bank," calling it "an origin story in which sainthood is a con that got out of hand"; the review credited Pearl Studio — "the Shanghai house formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks" — with authoring "its own tentpole from a wholly Chinese source" while keeping the finish it learned abroad.[2]

The review cautioned that, "stripped to a heist ensemble and sent abroad in subtitled Mandarin rather than a dub, the crew risks reading as generic fantasy mascots in markets that do not know the source"; it also noted the film opened across China on July 18, pulled forward a week from its planned date after strong previews, taking roughly CN¥270 million (≈US$38M) on its opening weekend.[2]