For months, I kept hearing really good things about K-Pop Demon Hunters. Perhaps I went in with my expectations set a little TOO high, to be honest.

K-pop demon hunters isn’t a masterpiece, let me start with that. It didn’t make me cry, it didn’t make me think about, I don’t know, what it means to be human or whatever. But does a movie need to do any of those things to be enjoyable? Should we be holding all types of media to the same standards?

Forgive me for refusing to do my research on this, but I think KPDH is a kids’ movie. Some people think kids’ media is inherently less intelligent, or interesting, or GOOD than media made for adults. This is, of course, not true. Good kids’ media is often better than mediocre stuff for adults.

This very thing can be said for KPDH. For me, it strikes the perfect balance between being a fun movie that’s not too deep, whilst also having enough emotional depth to keep you invested. The plot and characters are fine, but they’re not where the movie really shines.

Where the movie shines is, of course, the music. Like, the music in this movie is phenomenal. It’s not often that the music in a movie is both wildly popular in the universe of the movie, as well as in the real world. K-Pop Demon Hunters manages to pull this off, and that’s enough to impress me.

All I missed in KPDH is a more thorough exploration of what it means to be part demon and if a demon is always inherently bad. The plot really made me believe that this would be its main theme, but this question remains unanswered, even though it’s very relevant to Rumi, the main character. Maybe they’ll explore this topic in the sequel. No way are they not doing a sequel to this.