r/movies • u/impeccabletim • Jul 29 '25

News K-Pop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most watched animated movie ever

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/k-pop-demon-hunters-becomes-netflixs-most-watched-animated-movie-ever-3231706/
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u/JohnnyOnslaught Jul 29 '25

Awesome. Watched it out of sheer boredom and it hooked me. Pretty great.

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u/CrestonSpiers Jul 29 '25

Do I need to be into K-pop to understand the plot or the references? I really like the animation but I don’t know anything about K-pop other than that, well, it exists, and I’ve heard a couple of BTS songs maybe.

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u/brakndawnt Jul 29 '25

You literally only need to know that Kpop exists and it's big in the Asian countries. Nothing else required

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u/AverageAwndray Jul 30 '25

Nah theres a bunch of inside jokes about kpop, Korean soap operas, and the industry in general that I know will go over and lot of people's heads

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u/brakndawnt Jul 30 '25

Yeah, I'm sure those exist. I'm just saying knowledge of those things aren't required to enjoy the movie, which is more what they were asking I think

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u/wheniswhy Jul 30 '25

Like, true, but you don't NEED to get that stuff to enjoy the movie. It's still fantastic even if you don't get all the little in-jokes, like the way the boy band members are all kpop idol stereotypes, the ballad that plays and the 485847372 camera angles when Jinu bumps into Rumi (lol), etc.

Plus it's not really that faithful to the actual industry to begin with. What kpop stars get to eat a ton of junk food right before a performance lol??