Review: Animated 'Ne Zha II' deserves its accolades

Move over, Superman: A new superhero movie will be overtaking U.S. box offices starting Friday.

Its accolades: “Ne Zha II” is already the highest-grossing animated film of all time since its Lunar New Year release in China, earning more than $2 billion globally; the Chinese film, releasing in U.S. theaters this week with a new English dub, scored the highest Rotten Tomatoes audience rating for an animated film in the past decade. Not bad for a “racoon-eyed,” “pug-nosed” cartoon of a misfit boy, based on ancient Chinese mythology and the 16th-century novel “Investiture of the Gods.”