Several Chinese residents play music. A dragon frees himself from a cage and goes after them, but fireworks are shoved down the dragon's throat.

Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for 1930s animation that feels like a collective hallucination. If you like your cartoons weird, dark, and slightly mean-spirited, you might get a kick out of this. If you need a coherent story or characters you can actually root for? Maybe skip it. It’s bar...

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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for 1930s animation that feels like a collective hallucination. If you like your cartoons weird, dark, and slightly mean-spirited, you might get a kick out of this. If you need a coherent story or characters you can actually root for? Maybe skip it. It’s barely a few minutes long, but it feels like it lasts a lifetime. The whole thing starts out simple enough. People are playing music. Everything is fine. Then this dragon shows up, a..."
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