In a week, we'll kick out the year of the sheep/goat/ram, and let the Year of the Monkey swing in ... but has spawned a whole franchise of books, films and TV shows, most recently with Dawn ...

On the way to India to get some holy scrolls, priest Tripitaka and his followers are led by Monkey and implored by a princess to protect her people from a warlord and his brother. They've taken ...