Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

On the movie screen, Robot Bang Bang, who had a lot of patches on its body, was repaired and slowly opened its eyes. After it successively called out the names of “Lan Lan,””Little Bao,” and robot “Wa-wah,” the whole cinema cheered.

“Great, great!”

“Daddy, mommy, Bang Bang is alright, it is repaired!”

“I like Wa-wah and Bang Bang so much.”

Every parent that came to the cinema with their kids smiled in glee.

Clap clap clap!

Peng Shan Shan wiped the corners of her eyes with a paper towel. Then, she applauded as she looked at her boyfriend beside her. “So warm and touching, this movie is great!”

Clap clap clap clap!

Many of the people in the theater applauded along with her. This time, her boyfriend Su Xiao Peng did not make any refutes. He only nodded his head and said, “I was misguided by those film reviewers on the internet that attended the movie’s premiere. It is given a 6.8 on Douban, but this rating is way too low, it is worthy of at least an eight just by the movie’s special effects alone! Besides, the storyline is not bad. The climax, the rhythm of the movie, are all superb. Personally, I give it a 9 and above.”

Peng Shan Shan gave him an annoyed look. She rolled her eyes, “Aren’t we just watching a movie, what’s the point of mentioning all these? I like it and that’s enough, guys always talk about ratings, about whether it is worth the tickets; do you know it’s really annoying and boring at the same time? Can we just enjoy the movie?”

Song Xiao Ping smiled awkwardly. “You’re right, our personal view is what matters the most, we can’t get misguided by others.”

After the movie premiere, the box office on “Wa-wah 2″‘s first day was 569 million, a lot less than the 788 million of “Wa-wah 1.” It did not break the record held by “Wa-wah 1.”

The movie’s review, however, underwent a tremendous reversal after just a day on the big screens. It would more suitably be described as “a tsunami of praise,” so to speak. Netizens shared their movie reflections:

“Honestly, my expectations on ‘Wa-wah 2’ wasn’t as high as the first movie. Just like what those movie critics said, for a movie that was merely an ad produced by directors just for the sake of money, aside from having refined pictures and puffed up special effects, it has no meaning whatsoever. But I was dragged to the cinema by my girlfriend and after I finished the movie, I would like to tell those movie critics: To hell with you! This is such an awesome movie and you actually criticized it as being worthless!”

“If movies such as this is called trash, then of all the thousands of local productions that hit the big screens, 99.9% of them will be even worse than trash and totally unwatchable! I hope that all of our local productions look up to ‘Wa-wah 2.’ Make around 50 ‘trash movies’ like ‘Wa-wah 2’ every year and all the moviegoers in Z will become the happiest moviegoers in the world!”

Innumerable positive reviews quickly raised the publics expectations towards ‘Wa-wah 2.’ The movie was flooded by praise on Weibo and became a hot topic of discussion. On the second day, the number of viewers entering the cinema had increased. On the second day of the screening, ‘Wa-wah 2”s box office closed at 570 million. On the third day after the movie’s reputation had taken effect, ‘Wa-wah 2’ harvested a box office of 601 million. Market research organizations generally believed that ‘Wa-wah 2”s total domestic box office would not be lower than six billion dollars.

Netizens left their comments on his post:

“Is it for real? Exactly as in the movie?”

“Able to detect 1,153 common diseases, allowing people to discover and prevent diseases in advance, give out health reminders, guide everyone to embrace the healthy lifestyle… I would like to ask, when will Bang Bang robot be on sale? Can I preorder one? Can I buy it within 100 thousand dollars?”

“Holy, if such a robot is created, many hospitals are going to close down, aren’t they? Is Xing Hai Technologies beginning to destroy the medical industry?

There were replies to this comment, “What ‘destroy’? This is called ‘timely replacement.’ Many of the hospitals nowadays should’ve closed down since a long time ago!”

“I had a small cold last time. Doctors told me that I have this disease and that disease and scared me every single day. I spent over 10 thousand dollars across one month and I’m still sick. In the end, I bought a few cold medicine pills and I cured myself. Hospitals nowadays are all devil workshops!”

“Last year I went for circumcision, halfway through the procedure, the doctor asked me to pay more money and asked me to use my Alipay right on the spot. After the surgery, I called the police, but they didn’t care and asked me to opt for legal procedures. I went to court for half a year before I managed to get back my few grand.”

“Quickly release it, I will definitely buy one!”

One of the netizens expressed his doubts, “Bang Bang robot in the movie can spray out irritant gasses from its nose and boost its combat powers by 50% after activating the ‘Ultimate control mode,’ are these functions really suitable for the Bang Bang robot? Logically speaking, robots shouldn’t harm humans, am I right?”

Chen Jin replied to him, “What you said is right, robots should indeed not harm humans, therefore we have removed these two functions from the Bang Bang robot. Xing Hai Technologies will try our best to avoid ethical disputes.”

Some netizens became puzzled right away, “Why did you remove such great functions? What if we really encounter troubles like what happened in the movie?The Bang Bang robot couldn’t do anything but watch?”

“Yea, I think that the ‘Ultimate control mode’ was pretty awesome, it doesn’t need to be scrapped!”

The netizens were having heated discussions revolving this topic. The depth of the discussion was getting deeper and deeper, and more and more people were joining in. As the release date of the Bang Bang robot approached, the discussion had already become a collective discussion of the whole society.